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Originally Posted by atoaz12
What is your metric? How would you choose?
I'm not a 1%er. But I'm not a Hall of Great either.
I look at these things to determine consideration:
1) All Time excellence over a small period - 5-6 years (Koufax)
2) Excellence over a larger period - 8-10 years (tons of examples)
3) Really, really good over a really long time - 15+ (Biggio)
Then some questions to consider, if it's not obvious:
1) How many Hall of Fame seasons did they have?
2) How did they stack up to their contemporaries? (takes in to account eras)
3) Postseason success?
4) Are they all-time great in a specific area?
That's just me. Which ultimately means nothing.
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You pretty much summarized how I look at. The more difficult ones for me are the so-called compilers. Is Biggio a HOFer with 2900 hits? How about 2800? I think so but the magic 3000 hit mark made induction easier.