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HOF: Who Gets In Today?

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Who gets the required 75% vote today?

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If I had a vote, Bruce Sutter, Jim Rice, Dale Murphy, & Goose Gossage definitely get in. Sutter was only 43 votes shy last year, while Rice was 80 short.

Sutter won a Cy Young award in 1979. He led his league in saves five times in six years -- something no other reliever has ever done. He finished among the top four in his league in saves for eight straight years -- something no closer except Fingers has ever done. (Nope, not even the great Mariano Rivera.)

From 1975 through 1985, Rice was No. 1 in his league in homers, RBI, runs scored, slugging and extra-base hits. And the only player even close to him in most of those categories was the great George Brett.

In Gossage's first 10 seasons as a closer, he had an ERA of 2.27 or lower eight times. Stats tell us that the right-handers batted under .200 against this man over a period spanning nearly two decades.

He worked more than 130 innings in relief three times. And the only closer in history with more seasons of 20-plus saves and sub-2.00 ERAs than Gossage (four) is Rivera (six).

Back in the 80's, Murphy led all National Leaguers in runs and hits, tied Mike Schmidt for most RBI and was second only to Schmidt in home runs. He also garnered back-toback MVP awards, 5 gold gloves, not to metion being the leading vote getter in the All-Star balloting and a 30-30 guy.

No soup for Bert Blyleven.
 
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Gossage was my first pick with Sutter being a distant 2nd pick.

BTW, I was at an OSU baseball camp once and coach Cypret told me that the toughest guy he ever faced in the minors was Orel Hershiser.

He said Hershiser was the only pitcher that when on his stuff, felt he had no chance of hitting.
 
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Thump said:
BTW, I was at an OSU baseball camp once and coach Cypret told me that the toughest guy he ever faced in the minors was Orel Hershiser.
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I met Hershiser at Three Rivers Stadium when I was 13. After a rainout, we were waiting for the players to leave the stadium...this is in 89, the year after the Dodgers came out of nowhere to win the WS. Anyway, I was waiting for Kirk Gibson to come out so he could sign. He walks rights through us and actually tells us to get out of his way. My Mom was pissed and wrote one of those letters dripping with venom that only a Mom could write. The Dodgers get us free box seats the next time they are Pittsburgh and take us down to a press room where Hershiser met with us, talked for awhile, took pictures, and signed everything we had. Very nice guy...and Gibson proved he is a true scUMmer.
 
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Don't you mean a true scUMster ?

It has to be Sutter. It should also be Goose. He was scary just watching him pitch.


I've always been a big Dale Murphy guy. The Braves were horrible when he played but he was always a good guy and a great all around player.
 
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osugrad21 said:
I met Hershiser at Three Rivers Stadium when I was 13. After a rainout, we were waiting for the players to leave the stadium...this is in 89, the year after the Dodgers came out of nowhere to win the WS. Anyway, I was waiting for Kirk Gibson to come out so he could sign. He walks rights through us and actually tells us to get out of his way. My Mom was pissed and wrote one of those letters dripping with venom that only a Mom could write. The Dodgers get us free box seats the next time they are Pittsburgh and take us down to a press room where Hershiser met with us, talked for awhile, took pictures, and signed everything we had. Very nice guy...and Gibson proved he is a true scUMmer.
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Hershiser is one of my favorite players of all time. I was rooting hard for the Dodgers when they won that World Series mainly because they had Tim Belcher on the staff and my dad used to know him. In fact my dad's tax guy is really good friends with Tim so they got him to sign his rookie card that I had. Back on track I was glad when Hershiser came to the Tribe back in the 90's so I was able to watch him play for several years. I don't know if he is HOF material since it seems like MLB is the hardest HOF to get into, but he will always be one of my favorites.
 
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Just saw Pete Rose when I was out in Vegas. He was signing autographs and harassing people at a sports memorabilia store in The Shoppes at Caesar's.

I admire what he did on the field, but the guy's a real dick personally.
 
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