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Originally Posted by packs
I don't know why Mattingly isn't in either. The HOF has inducted players with brief dominance and promise who suffered major injuries before.
Dizzy Dean would be a good example. He had 4 dominating seasons before an injury took his career.
From 1984 to 1987 Donnie Baseball was the premier player in the American League. He averaged 30 homers, 121 rbis and a .336 average over his peak. Had he not gotten hurt, I don't think there's any doubt he was a HOFer.
He should get in for the quality of player that he was. Not because of his career numbers.
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Would you be able to compare Mattingly to someone undeserving besides Dean, like someone from the 60's on? The reason I ask is the same can be said for Dizzy as what you said, "the quality of player someone is, not because of his career numbers". I wasn't around for Dean, but maybe he was a quality player that really did deserve it?
But anyways, that unfortunately is not how the voting works. Of course they will look at the quality of player it is, but at the end of the day, if you have 2,000 and 222 HR's, you aren't getting in. Good ball player, but again, just not long enough.