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>Yeah, Grich is the one guy in the ten ahead of him that isn't >in the HOF. How about the other nine?
Well, let's see: there are two guys who each hit .400 + won triple crowns; a 7x batting champion with 3000 hits + an MVP; a guy with 3300 hits and a .333 BA, an MVP + 4 rings; a guy who hit .320 with over 2800 hits + an MVP; another guy who hit .316 with over 2800 hits, won an MVP + 4 rings; a 2x MVP with 5 gold gloves + almost 700 SB; a guy with an MVP, 9 gold gloves and a home run crown; and a current player who has almost 500 more hits, 100 more doubles, almost 40 more HR + a batting average 30 points higher than Utley's who is also 4 years younger & still playing at an All-Star level. Oh and Grich has 4 gold gloves, a HR title, a slugging crown, and a career 16 WAR edge over Utley as well.
but yeah aside from all that Chase fits right in with those guys.
>Like in basketball I would very seriously consider Ben >Wallace's candidacy for similar reasons. Took a while to break >in, beat up his body, but at his best he was a DPOY and the >fulcrum of a very effective machine.
Didn't you say a ~5 year stretch of dominate seasons in basketball was too short and that to you a HOFer should play at that level for ~10 seasons? and since you were using sports-reference.com statistical HOF projections for your baseball argument, bball-ref's HOF probability has Wallace at 45.3%, placing him 115th all-time a few spots below Joe Johnson, while Dwight Howard is at 99.1%, placing him 52nd all-time, a few spots ahead of McHale, Cowens & McAdoo.
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