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Old 08-05-2020, 09:54 AM
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Default Worst Team of all HOFers

I was thinking about some of the poor choices that have been made for enshrining players into the Baseball Hall of Fame and started to wonder "Who were the worst?", "What selections were the most egregious?". I took a look at the WAR of every HOFer inducted as a player (caveat: I know WAR is imperfect, but it's a useful tool in comparing players across eras). Then I sorted them by position (didn't include relievers). The results are listed below. I've included their career WAR and where they rank all-time (only up to 1,000 - yes a few HOFers aren't even in the top 1,000 all-time). Interestingly, every single player was elected by the Veteran's Committee. I knew it was bad there for a while, but didn't realize it was this bad.

C - Rick Ferrell: 31.1 WAR (796th all time)
1B- George Kelly: 24.9 WAR (1000+ all time)
2B- Bill Mazeroski: 36.5 WAR (618th all time)
SS- Phil Rizzuto: 42.0 WAR (467th all time)
3B- Fred Lindstrom: 27.5 WAR (958th all time)
LF- Chick Hafey: 31.1 WAR (797th all time)
CF- Lloyd Waner: 27.9 WAR (931st all time)
RF- Tommy McCarthy 16.2 WAR (1000+ all time)
DH- Harold Baines 38.7 WAR (554th all-time)
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