Players Who Deserve To Be In The Hall of Fame But will Never get In

[GodLovesYou]

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Brett Butler( he was the best leadoff hitter of the 1980s and early 1990s, due to his high on-base percentage, speed and dynamic bunting. Also he defyed the predictions of those who had speculated he would never be able to play again when he had a type of cancer which only involves the tonsils )

Darryl Strawberry( 8 time allstar selection , 4 time world series champion , 2 time Silver Slugger award winner , 1983 NL Rookie of the year and 1986 Home Run Derby co - winner )

Eric Davis( 2 time allstar selection , world series champion , 3 time gold glove award winner , 2 time silver slugger award winner , 1996 NL comeback player of the year and 1989 Home run derby winner )

Keith Hernandez( 5 time allstar selection , 2 time world series champion , 11 time gold glove award winner and 2 time silver slugger award winner )

[CWood2]

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Barry Bonds.

Spoiler

... yeah, NO.

[Sportsforever]

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Brett Butler( he was the best leadoff hitter of the 1980s and early 1990s, due to his high on-base percentage, speed and dynamic bunting. Also he defyed the predictions of those who had speculated he would never be able to play again when he had a type of cancer which only involves the tonsils )

Darryl Strawberry( 8 time allstar selection , 4 time world series champion , 2 time Silver Slugger award winner , 1983 NL Rookie of the year and 1986 Home Run Derby co - winner )

Eric Davis( 2 time allstar selection , world series champion , 3 time gold glove award winner , 2 time silver slugger award winner , 1996 NL comeback player of the year and 1989 Home run derby winner )

Keith Hernandez( 5 time allstar selection , 2 time world series champion , 11 time gold glove award winner and 2 time silver slugger award winner )

Rickey Henderson was the best lead off hitter ever, let alone in the 1980's/90's.

[snepp]

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Rickey Henderson was the best lead off hitter ever, let alone in the 1980's/90's.

And then there's that Raines guy, he was pretty decent.

[Sportsforever]

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And then there's that Raines guy, he was pretty decent.

Yup...Butler doesn't belong in the discussion with those guys honestly.

[l3ulvl]

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Edgar Martinez

Taken from his wikipedia page:

Martínez, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Manny Ramirez, and Todd Helton are the only players in history with 300 home runs, 500 doubles, a career batting average higher than .300, a career on-base percentage higher than .400 and a career slugging percentage higher than .500.

EDIT: Just realized he was already discussed...

[GodLovesYou]

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Barry Larkin-12 all star selection , 3 time gold glove award winner , 9 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion , 1995 NL MVP

Billy Hatcher- world series champion , his world series record .750 batting average in the four game sweep of the oakland athletics.

Cecil Fielder-3 all star selection , 2 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion

Kevin Mitchell-2 all star selection , silver award winner , world series
champion ,1989 NL MVP , his barehanded catch in the 1989 season

Matt Williams-5 all star selection , 4 time gold glove winner , 4 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion , also his nickname Matt the Bat

Will Clark- 6 all star selection , gold gold winner , 2 time silver slugger award winner , 1989 NLCS MVP , also his nicknames Will the thrill , The thrill and the Natural

[GodLovesYou]

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Rickey Henderson was the best lead off hitter ever, let alone in the 1980's/90's.

Well many people consider Brett Butler to be one of the best leadoff hitters of the 1980s and early 1990's.
I don't think that people would go wrong by picking either brett butler or rickey henderson.

[Sportsforever]

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Well many people consider Brett Butler to be one of the best leadoff hitters of the 1980s and early 1990's.
I don't think that people would go wrong by picking either brett butler or rickey henderson.

You can have Butler...I'm taking Henderson every day of the week and twice on Sunday. IMO, it's not even close, but that's why we discuss these things I guess.

[steelcurtain311]

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Forget leadoff hitter, Ricky Henderson is one of the greatest players in general, ever. I know he has a ways to go, but I'd love to see McCutchen be a similar player to Ricky. He was one of the few guys to perfectly understand and play his role on the team, so many leadoff hitters just don't get what they're supposed to do, so bad to a point where you see a guy like Alfonso Soriano as a leadoff hitter.

[snepp]

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I don't think that people would go wrong by picking either brett butler or rickey henderson.

I think they would be wrong. Very, very, very wrong. Steve Phillips wrong.

[snepp]

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Barry Larkin-12 all star selection , 3 time gold glove award winner , 9 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion , 1995 NL MVP

Billy Hatcher- world series champion , his world series record .750 batting average in the four game sweep of the oakland athletics.

Cecil Fielder-3 all star selection , 2 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion

Kevin Mitchell-2 all star selection , silver award winner , world series
champion ,1989 NL MVP , his barehanded catch in the 1989 season

Matt Williams-5 all star selection , 4 time gold glove winner , 4 time silver slugger award winner , world series champion , also his nickname Matt the Bat

Will Clark- 6 all star selection , gold gold winner , 2 time silver slugger award winner , 1989 NLCS MVP , also his nicknames Will the thrill , The thrill and the Natural

Larkin will get in eventually. Clark was a very good player, very underrated, but still borderline at best.

The rest of those guys? They don't belong anywhere near a HoF discussion. Billy Hatcher? Are you kidding me?

[fishepa]

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Fred McGriff. Dude hit 493 homeruns WITHOUT steroids.

[JBH3]

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Roberto Kelly.

Spoiler

[GodLovesYou]

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Larkin will get in eventually. Clark was a very good player, very underrated, but still borderline at best.

The rest of those guys? They don't belong anywhere near a HoF discussion. Billy Hatcher? Are you kidding me?

Well Barry Larkin will get in when his time goes up.
Sadly Will Clark will not get in because when he was on the ballot he didn 't get enough votes to continue being on the ballot.

Well i was giving my opinion that Billy Hatcher , Cecil Fielder , Kevin Mitchell and Matt Williams deserve to be in the HALL of FAME but in realty their probably won 't get enough votes to be in and i thought this thread was/is about who we thought should be in the Hall of Fame .

It doesn 't matter if we liked them , we disliked them , they were our favorite players ,etc . we still could put their name in this thread even if they don 't make it.

And no i was not kidding about Billy Hatcher if at all he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because of his Batting Average that he accomplished in the world series. He broke the a 62 year World Series record that was previous held by no other than BABE RUTH (.625 in 1928).
He also set records for the most hits in a row ( 7 ) and the most doubles in a four game series ( 4 ).

By the way how many people can say that they broke a record BABE RUTH had?

Billy Hatcher can say he did and he is probably a number that you can fit on one hand and supposely that Babe Ruth is the standard for a baseball player so if he is in you should let the players who broke a record he had in.