The Hawk elected

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Scav

Knock it off

Truths a bitch

[Scav]

Originally Posted by GPK

Truths a bitch

Golf is barely a sport

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Scav

Golf is barely a sport

Oh, Boy.....It's going to be on now!

[Heels1989]

Ken Harrelson? HOF?
















Actually Big Congrats to Andre. Very well deserved.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Scav

Golf is barely a sport

Dude, the guy played baseball for 37 years...finally decided to retire at age 62 and only won 8 gold gloves. And, he played for the Cubs at one time, so he couldn't have been that good.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by GPK

Dude, the guy played baseball for 37 years...finally decided to retire at age 62 and only won 8 gold gloves. And, he played for the Cubs at one time, so he couldn't have been that good.

Any player that wins a MVP when he is on the worst team in baseball should get in automatically. If that doesn't tell you how much better he was then anyone at the time, on what some will say one leg, then I don't know what will.

[SniperSB23]

Players with 400+ Home Runs and 300+ Stolen Bases:

Barry Bonds
Willie Mays
Andre Dawson

A-Rod will be there with 3 more stolen bases. Not bad company.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Players with 400+ Home Runs and 300+ Stolen Bases:

Barry Bonds
Willie Mays
Andre Dawson

A-Rod will be there with 3 more stolen bases. Not bad company.

Andre had an absolute rifle arm, second only to Clemente probably. good for him to finally get to the HOF

[Rudeboyelvis]

Player Votes Percentage
Andre Dawson 420 77.9%
Bert Blyleven 400 74.2%
Roberto Alomar 397 73.7%
Jack Morris 282 52.3%
Barry Larkin 278 51.6%
Lee Smith 255 47.3%
Edgar Martinez 195 36.2%
Tim Raines 164 30.4%
Mark McGwire 128 23.7%
Alan Trammell 121 22.4%
Fred McGriff 116 21.5%
Don Mattingly 87 16.1%
Dave Parker 82 15.2%
Dale Murphy 63 11.7%
Harold Baines 33 6.1%
Andres Galarraga 22 4.1%
Robin Ventura 7 1.3%
Ellis Burks 2 0.4%
Eric Karros 2 0.4%
Kevin Appier 1 0.2%
Pat Hentgen 1 0.2%
David Segui 1 0.2%
Mike Jackson 0 0%
Ray Lankford 0 0%
Shane Reynolds 0 0%
Todd Zeile 0 0%

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Andre had an absolute rifle arm, second only to Clemente probably. good for him to finally get to the HOF

He had a very good arm and this is pretty subjective but probably had the third best arm in a Montreal behind Ellis Valentine and Vlad. Dave Parker also had a great arm before he needed nutrisystem and no one I have ever seen has a stronger, more accurate arm than Ichiro.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Players with 400+ Home Runs and 300+ Stolen Bases:

Barry Bonds
Willie Mays
Andre Dawson

A-Rod will be there with 3 more stolen bases. Not bad company.

Good point!

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Scav

Any player that wins a MVP when he is on the worst team in baseball should get in automatically. If that doesn't tell you how much better he was then anyone at the time, on what some will say one leg, then I don't know what will.

Yeah, except he didn't deserve to win the MVP that year. I still don't understand how the hell he did.
A .328 OBP? For an MVP? That's terrible.
Tony Gwynn's batting average that year was over 40 points higher than Andre Dawson's on-base percentage. That's ridiculous. And Gwynn stole 50+ bases on top of that.
Jack Clark's numbers were also a lot better than Dawson's that year too. He hit for roughly the same average, but drew something like 100 more walks than Dawson while still putting up good power numbers (his OPS was MUCH higher than Dawson's). All Dawson did that year was hit a lot of home runs on a really bad team.
I guess he still probably deserves to be in the HOF though, so congrats to him.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Yeah, except he didn't deserve to win the MVP that year. I still don't understand how the hell he did.
A .328 OBP? For an MVP? That's terrible.
Tony Gwynn's batting average that year was over 40 points higher than Andre Dawson's on-base percentage. That's ridiculous. And Gwynn stole 50+ bases on top of that.
Jack Clark's numbers were also a lot better than Dawson's that year too. He hit for roughly the same average, but drew something like 100 more walks than Dawson while still putting up good power numbers (his OPS was MUCH higher than Dawson's). All Dawson did that year was hit a lot of home runs on a really bad team.
I guess he still probably deserves to be in the HOF though, so congrats to him.

Tough to get too upset about a guy winning MVP that hit 49 HRs, drove in 137 RBIs, and won a Gold Glove. There is a solid argument for Gwynn that year although the 137 to 54 RBI margin is tough to overcome but no one ever confused Jack Clark with a gold glover. While he put up good numbers offensively he was never helping his team in the field.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Tough to get too upset about a guy winning MVP that hit 49 HRs, drove in 137 RBIs, and won a Gold Glove. There is a solid argument for Gwynn that year although the 137 to 54 RBI margin is tough to overcome but no one ever confused Jack Clark with a gold glover. While he put up good numbers offensively he was never helping his team in the field.

It just irritates me that voters pay more attention to a stat like RBI than to a stat like OPS (or at least the stats that go into OPS before the number was tracked). To me, OPS gives a much clearer indication of the kind of year a guy had offensively than a team-dependent stat like runs scored or RBI. Dawson's OPS in '87 wasn't bad....but it was hardly MVP worthy in my estimation.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Scav

Any player that wins a MVP when he is on the worst team in baseball should get in automatically. If that doesn't tell you how much better he was then anyone at the time, on what some will say one leg, then I don't know what will.

Stop it. I'm just giving you a hard time because I know how bad you thought he deserved it.

Ben Hogan is still "The Hawk" though.