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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Monday, November 28, 2005
Bob Boyd
Eligible in 1967.
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 28, 2005 at 02:44 AM (#1749049)I'm wondering a bit about whether the QOP issue is coming up after 1946 in a dramatic way. We're seeing the MLE routine spitting out a lot of early peaks....
Anyway, Boyd's kind of Buckneresque in a way, though sans the speed and outfielding. They both hit for a good average, both are around 100 OPS, both were non-traditional 1B (in that they didn't hit for much power), and both were line-drive type hitters who didn't walk too often. Boyd walked more than Buckner, Buckner hit more homers.
I hate to do this to you again, but, after Boyd's recent death, it came out that he was born in 1919, not 1925 or 1926 as usually reported. Also, the Rope was drafted early in 1941 (like Hank Greenberg) and basically missed all of 1941 to 1945 while in the military. His NAL years, 1946 to 1950, are all peak (by the way, his final 1949 numbers are G-AB-R-H-2B-3B-HR-RBI-SB/80-309-59-114-24-4-8-55-11).
Amazingly, Boyd played on in the Minors until he was 44 and then until he was 50 as a semi-pro. The guy could literally fall out of bed and smack line drives. If I get a chance I'll edit down this ridiculously long study on Willard Brown that got completely sidetracked by Boyd, Les Fleming, and the 1954 Texas League until I didn't even bother to post it on Willard's thread.
No problem, I'm always ready to revise. I'll repost with the new information in mind. Do you know what Boyd's pre NAL baseball activities were?
I will have updated MLEs for Boyd in Q4 this year or Q1 next year. So if you can wait just a little longer.... I'm first going through the HOF/HOM members at each position, then through the leading other candidates. Those results will be posted at The Hall of Miller and Eric (HoMEmlb.wordpress.com) starting later this month. I will cross-link in appropriate player threads as results are posted.
But as I mentioned, should the 1947-1948 data show him to be a lot better hitter during his 20s peak, he could be better. Probably not enough to be an All-Star type player (5 WAR). I don't translate component stats anymore, so I can't offer granularity like that.
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