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Old 12-08-2014, 01:36 PM
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What an absolute shame that Hodges is not going to be in the Hall of Fame...I just don't get it.

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What an absolute shame that Hodges is not going to be in the Hall of Fame...I just don't get it.

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I get it. He was a really good player for 8 years.
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But the MLB EloRater says he was better than Barry Bonds. If we can't trust the EloRater, whom can we trust?
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I get it. He was a really good player for 8 years.
And he won a World Series as a player and a manager...how many others can say the same thing? Once in a while it shouldn't be all about the stats.

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Hodges never received less than 49% of the vote while he was on the active ballot. If half the people who ever saw your play thought you were a HOFer, I think there's something to that.

Compare that to recent Veterans Committee inductees:

Santo - never topped 40 %
Joe Gordon - never topped 28.5 %
Mazz - never topped 42 %
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Hodges never received less than 49% of the vote while he was on the active ballot. If half the people who ever saw your play thought you were a HOFer, I think there's something to that.

Compare that to recent Veterans Committee inductees:

Santo - never topped 40 %
Joe Gordon - never topped 28.5 %
Mazz - never topped 42 %
None of them deserved it either.
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None of them deserved it either.

Maybe. But the point I was trying to make was that these players, who the Veterans Committee voted in, never received a higher percentage of votes than Hodges received in his weakest year while on the active ballot. Yet they chose not to elect Hodges.
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It always engenders spirited discussion. I think they got it right.
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