Berkman was absolutely one of the most feared hitters in the game when he was healthy.
If you look at gameday, it has Jansen at bat for the Blue Jays with IKF(now with the Pirates) on deck and Kiermaier(now with Dodgers) on deck
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Pujols is a first ballot HoF. Votto is borderline and should have to wait 2 years or more than Bagwell did as Baggy was far superior hitter than Votto was.
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Jansen at bat for Toronto while wearing a Sox hat. Iāve never thought about how they do the box score for games like this.
What was Correaās?
18.5
If only someone would have brought this upā¦say a few days agoā¦
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I canāt help it if someone jumped the gun by a few days.
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While averaging 120 games per season
I was 3 weeks early with the possibility
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Dick-sizing abounds
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Iād just point out that all references to that game occurred at the same time, and that weāre just lucky the universe still exists after the space/time continuum was violated.
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Time is a flat circle
Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?
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That canāt be correct, Jeter has the record at 8.3, the numbers are lying.
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True, and certainly Iām not comparing him to Pujols or Hank Aaron. But Votto IS a good comparison. They were almost the exact same player, which is why I get annoyed when people look at Votto and say āheās definitely a HOFerā and yet Berkman gets dismissed without so much as even consideration.
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Oh, I donāt disagree with you at all. Berkman should absolutely have gotten more love. I also donāt see Votto as a nodoubt HoFer and I think by the time heās actually on the ballot, he wonāt be consensus. What helps Votto is that everyone loves him personally. Votto is borderline for me, Berkman is also. If I had to vote for one and only one though, I think Iād lean Votto but itās really close. Berkman being one and done on the ballot was and is a fucking travesty.
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Agreed. Iām not suggesting either should be, but I have hard time saying Votto is and Berkman isnāt. And to add on to the point about Votto being beloved (so was Berkman)ā¦I think it helps Votto that heās played on pretty bad to mediocre teams most of his career. He was by far the best player on some pretty bad teams, and he stood out for that.
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Lanceās numbers in the 2011 WS:
BA .423 (11-26) BB 5 RBI 5 HR 1 2B 1 K 7
(0 stolen bases, the Yankees commander refused to unleash the Puma).
Like I said earlier he was their most consistent hitter. Freese won MVP because of some really big hits in big moments and thatās very understandable/deserving but Lance was a thorn in Arlingtonās side all series.
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The MVP alone means the writers will pay closer attention to his HoF bid since theyāre the ones that awarded it to him.
Lance was overshadowed by Bagwell and Biggio from a national recognition standpoint. And Minute Maid numbers were dismissed (I suspect).