OT: MLB Thread Part XXVIII: Vote Starlin Castro for the ASG

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Cal Ripken, Bert Blylevin, and Carl Yastrzemski could also be considered compilers but I didn't include them because they compiled 90+ WAR's.
 
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John Smoltz is a first ballot 83% Hall of Famer. He's the only man to win 200 games and make 150 saves. Every other non-PED user pitcher with 3,000 strikeouts is in the Hall of Fame. Name one baseball expert that says he's not a HoFer.
 
John Smoltz is a first ballot 83% Hall of Famer. He's the only man to win 200 games and make 150 saves. Every other non-PED user pitcher with 3,000 strikeouts is in the Hall of Fame. Name one baseball expert that says he's not a HoFer.
Never said he wasn't a HoFer.

Rose is the biggest compiler of all-time and I'm going to put "Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame" on my headstone.
 
Also never said that CC is a Hall of Famer.

I just don't think having a steady career precludes you from consideration.
 
:rolleyes: Yaz is a first ballot HoFer with 95% of the vote!, has a higher WAR than Ripken, Beltre, and Clemente, over 3400 hits, and won the Triple Crown.
 
Smoltz had an outstanding career but he broke 6.0 WAR in a season once.

This thread in particular has always offered huge support to Mike Mussina's case, but if we're being honest, he was never spectacular either.

He was just very good for two decades, which is spectacular in its own way.
 
:rolleyes: Yaz is a first ballot HoFer with 95% of the vote!, has a higher WAR than Ripken, Beltre, and Clemente, over 3400 hits, and won the Triple Crown.
That doesn't make him not a compiler. You're equating compiler with not a HOFer which couldn't be further from the truth.

Although, Yaz is borderline as a compiler because he had two seasons where he was absolutely demonstrative.
 
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