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Agreed. Having said that, Eppa Rixey in this discussion is a joke. Record 266-251, ERA 3.18, and his strike out and walk totals are incredibly close 1,350 K's, 1,082 BB's....I'm missing something here.... Another one I dont understand is Rabbit Maranville....
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Well while I can't speak for his stats, Rixey was the winningest lefty in National League history when he retired. Must have been well liked amongst the voting committee for him to get in though.
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Reulbach IP 2632 K 1137 BB 892
Three Finger IP 3172 K 1375 BB 673 |
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With Rixey, they say he got a lot of attention when Spahn broke his record for wins by an NL lefty and they figured if Spahn was so great, how is the old record holder not in the Hall of Fame. I sometimes wonder why people assume certain players don't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame when just a few years into the process they were put in there. Isn't it possible that the original people got it right and it's just changed over time due to newer voter errors? If that is true, then that doesn't make the older votes a mistake, it makes the people voting now wrong.
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McCarthy is a head scratcher too. On the one hand he scored 100 runs 7 years in a row. On the other, nothing else is there really. But he may have also stolen many more bases than he is credited for.
From what I've read his selection had a lot to do with his contributions to the game. He is credited by some to have invented the hit and run play. |
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When he was behind the plate the Cubs won! Kling was a winner!!
His numbers are just a bit short of Bresnahans. |
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Of the T206 players not in the Hall of Fame that I think should be in, four make the list: Gavvy Cravath, Bill Dahlen, Larry Doyle and Sherry Magee.
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