Players that were once great but now forgotten

[anderwho2513]

I guess what I'm saying is that, yes he was a damn fine player, but to be in the HOF, you have to elevate yourself to an elite level compared to everyone else from your time. And while everyone else was hitting 40, 50, even 60* home runs, he was still in the 30s. Case in point: he never finished closer than 8 HR from the MLB leader.

I'd like to know how his career OPS and OPS+ compare to everyone else from that era. Serious question because I don't know.

 

[herky]

I guess what I'm saying is that, yes he was a damn fine player, but to be in the HOF, you have to elevate yourself to an elite level compared to everyone else from your time. And while everyone else was hitting 40, 50, even 60* home runs, he was still in the 30s. Case in point: he never finished closer than 8 HR from the MLB leader.

I'd like to know how his career OPS and OPS+ compare to everyone else from that era. Serious question because I don't know.

Well, according to the site that I found, his OPS was only behind two players.

We can simply look in admiration at his stats between 1988 and 1994 as an extended period of dominance. In those years he would lead the league in home runs twice collecting 3 silver sluggers. He would finish top 5 in on base percentage 4 times and slugging percentage 5 times. He would finish top home runs each season and runs batted in 5 times. He would also finish top 10 in runs scored 5 times and top 6 in total bases 6 times. And much to my surprise, Fred McGriff would accumulate the third highest OPS among all major leaguers, behind only Barry Bonds and Frank Thomas.

He also compares him to other first baseman of the era in terms of career playoff numbers

BA / OB / SLUG
.226/.364/.321 Jeff Bagwell
.222/.321/.488 Jim Thome
.217/.320/.349 Mark McGwire
.224/.441/.429 Frank Thomas
.244/.308/.451 Rafael Palmeiro
.303/.385/.532 Fred McGriff

These, to me, are the most telling stats

Both McCovey and Stargell were inducted in their first year of eligibility.

Fred McGriff is a Hall of Famer | The MLB Blog

 

[Jimmy_the_Tongue]

Wally Backman

Tony Pena

Doug Drabek

 

[SuperFlyer13]

Dennis Eckersly

 

[KansasSooner]

Mickey Rivers

 

[TexasMan]

Mickey Tettleton

 

[huskers1217]

Dale Murphy

Bob Horner

Rick Mahler

Craig McMurtry

 

[ugafan6612]

Mickey Mickerson

 

[ugafan6612]

Andruw Jones Kevin Millwood?

 

[TexasMan]

Chuck Knoblauch

 

[iruletheskool]

Carl Crawford

 

[huskers1217]

Anyone on the red sox roster

 

[OregonDucks]

Chuck Knoblauch

does he even still play??????

 

[OregonDucks]

What ever happened to that Pitcher for the Marlins like 5 years ago everyone was talking about....

are you thinking of Pudge Rodriguez?

 

[TexasMan]

does he even still play??????

are you thinking of Pudge Rodriguez?

Have you ever watched a baseball game before?

 

[TexasMan]

Eric Gagne

 

[RawkRawks]

Any player that we can't remember

 

[BUDSFAULT]

Manny Sarmiento
Biff Pocoroba
Skip Jutze
Mookie Wilson

 

[herky]

George "Taco" Bell
Albert "Joey" Bell

 

[TexasMan]

Chili Davis