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Posted By: joe coal

what i meant was if basically is whats more important,if a guy hits 550 home runs and scores 1200 runs and has 1400 rbi's for their career is that better then a guy who hits 450/1200/1400 but is much better in other categories? appearantly it is according to the people who vote for the hall,he isnt helping is team score anymore then the other guy,and someone like mcgwire on the basepaths cant be a help,he runs like Ron Hassey!...and as far as giving a guy credit for time he missed due to injury,canseco has been on the disabled list 12 times compared to mcgwires 9 times during their careers...or best example might be tommy john,he missed the end of one season,and then the whole next year with his famous arm injury,that now has a surgery named after him,and he missed that time in is prime,why couldnt they just credit him 12 wins for that time lost,he average 15 wins,the 3 yrs before and the 3 years after the injury,so its safe to say he would of had 12 wins in 1+ seasons,that woud have put him over 300,and we would be calling him hall of famer Tommy John ... but why reward a guy for getting injured? isnt he doing his team harm when hes injured,he is taking up payroll and forcing them to play somebody they werent planning on who might not be ready for the majors or might not be good enough to start...might be hard to believe but i actually like McGwire,just because of the home runs probably John