OT: Did Adam Dunn ruin his Hall chances

[chaddurbin]

edit: letting the guy retire in peace...

[bn2cardz]

Just received the SI this week and the last page is a article title "Dunn and Done" about Dunn's retirement with a quick comparison to Jeter.

From the article:

Dunn, essentially, could do only three things: hit home runs, walk and strike out. Just under half of his 8,328 plate appearances ended with one of theat trio, a higher ratio than any other player in history with 4,000 plate appearances.

It is says just under half but the numbers are 4158 (462 HR, 1,317 Walks, 2,379 SO) to his 8,328 PA so that is 49.93%.

The article ended with:

Two weeks ago SI devoted 12 pages to Jeter as he reached the final measures of his swan song. Dunn gets these 723 words. He'd tell you that they were 723 words too many.

I would agree, but this was an interesting case study and led to a great conversation about a single stat HOFers and what constitutes a HOFer.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

It is says just under half but the numbers are 4158 (462 HR, 1,317 Walks, 2,379 SO) to his 8,328 PA so that is 49.93%.

What were they thinking?

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Runscott

What were they thinking?

Who? The ones that paid him $113 million?

Or is this in reference to me putting the specific numbers? My point was that they said just under half. To me that could have been anywhere between 40%-50%. Yet it really was right about 50% and if they rounded to say 50% no one would have faulted them. I guess I just like specifics ,

What is even more interesting about that is that the SO is more than the other two stats combined (specifically 133.73% of the other combined totals, or 28.57% of his PA).