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Old 12-17-2022, 05:16 PM
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Old 12-17-2022, 06:18 PM
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Frank Robinson was the 1st one to pop into my head, as the question suggested. Don’t know if it’s the right answer, but it’s the honest one.
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Old 12-17-2022, 07:44 PM
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I'll keep this in the 20th century. Bob Johnson is the first player when I think of as under appreciated, well, at least from a hobby stand point. Four points higher on his lifetime BA (.296) and he might be in the HOF with his 8 x 100 RBI seasons with 7 of those consecutive and 2 other 90+ RBI seasons and a greater than .500 slugging percentage (.506). He had over 1200 RBIs and runs lifetime.


I can't help myself, for the 19th century, Bobby Mathews with 297 wins. Just 3 more W's and he'd most likely be in. There were probably other pitchers more deserving in the 19th century that were overall statistically better, but 3 wins shy of that magic number.
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Spahn was the first to pop into my head, but Kid Nichols is way more underrated.
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Johnny Mize. He hit .312/.397/.562/.959 OPS+ 158. That is the 15th highest slugging percentage, 17th highest OPS and 18th highest OPS+. His OPS+ is higher than Mays, Aaron and DiMaggio and tied with Tris Speaker.

His first year on the HOF ballot, he received 16.7%. His second he received 8.8%. He peaked at 43.6%. After falling off the writers ballot, it took another 8 years for the Veteran's Committee to elect him. How does a great player like Mize get snubbed for so long by HOF voters?
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+1 on Al Oliver. Career .303 hitter over 17 seasons and just a few hundred hits shy of 3,000.
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First random names that pop in my head…

Eddie Collins
Tony Mullane
Dick Allen
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Frank Robinson
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Kenny Lofton - A sure-fire HOFer by every metric and only gets 3.2% on the first ballot then never sees the vote again.
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Strong agree. Plus he did it in the heart of the roid-era with extremely little suspicion of him taking part in it (very outspoken about it, too).

Beyond the numbers, he was fun to watch. His defensive highlights in the 90s and early 00s were all over the sportscasts.

His biggest knock was being oft-injured and working 130-ish games a year most of the time. Still, he put in 16 "full" seasons and a 20-game rookie season for 17 seasons of great production when he was playing those games.
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I like the Mel Ott suggestions because when I saw them I thought, “oh yeah, I forget about Mel Ott.”

But to answer the question of the OP, oddly, Troy Glaus was the first name to come to mind. But after a minute of thinking, Lance Parrish. So many guys are great for not quite long enough, and then they get sort of erased from memory.
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I picked two HoFers off the top of my head, both playing 162-game seasons, to compare to Eddie Yost, who played 154-seasons:

Eddie Yost Tony Gwynn Rod Carew

Home Runs 139 135 92

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I'll go with a under appreciated owner August herrmann father of the world series and brought peace between the nl and al. For a player jake daubert the best first basemen of his era in my opinion.
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abothebear I like the Mel Ott suggestions because when I saw them I thought, “oh yeah, I forget about Mel Ott.”

But to answer the question of the OP, oddly, Troy Glaus was the first name to come to mind. But after a minute of thinking, Lance Parrish. So many guys are great for not quite long enough, and then they get sort of erased from memory.


Both of these...Tigers had an almost 30 year run of top C between Freehan and Parrish...and a couple nice years of Nokes.

Get tired of the top 15 guys being mentioned as underrated...by who?....Like me saying Kaline is underrated....not by anyone in Detroit!

Look at Lance's # vs Fisk/Carter...then look at Molina...This guy didn't even get a sniff on the ballot.

I will also add in Lolich...best Lefty of his era not named Carlton...again...no respect....I bet Bob Gibson didn't underrate him!
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