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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, July 23, 2011Doyel: Santo will make Hall one day, but call will be too lateSaints alive! Doy-El takes on El Santo!
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Posted: July 23, 2011 at 02:07 PM | 9 comment(s)
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1. JRVJ Posted: July 23, 2011 at 02:39 PM (#3883807)Perspective, please.
At the time of his retirement he was. That's what the article said, "... he retired as one of the best two or three third basemen of all time." Bill James for instance had him 3rd at the time of his retirement.
You already have Fergie Jenkins, Ernie Banks, and Billy Williams as Hall of Famers from the 60s Cubs. If you add in Santo, you now have four HoFers from a team that won nothing, and participated in one of the best-documented late-season fades of all time in 1969, with Santo treated as the leader of the faders (on August 5 he was hitting .317/.413/.549, then he hit .224/.317/.339 the rest of the way).
Of course, neither Banks nor Jenkins is in the HoF for what they did in the 60s. Banks was at the end of his career, Jenkins at the beginning. And it's not fair to single out Santo as the leader of the collapse when it was truly a team effort. But that's the baggage he carries to a large extent.
-- MWE
True that Santo, Williams, and Jenkins couldn't win together. Give them late 1950's Ernie Banks and it would have been a different story. Still hardly a valid reason for keeping Santo out, as he was better than Williams to anyone who acknowledges the defensive spectrum.
The solution - add Santo via the veteran's committee and remove the Cubs' obviously overrated manager, Hall of Famer Leo Durocher, for not winning with 4 HOF'ers!
It's never a sure thing, of course. But if I was going to put money on it, I'd bet on Santo getting in.
(*I know based on history, Larkin will almost certainly jump up enough in the voting to get in. But not everyone pays attention to history, and it's a big enough gap that we'll see some doubters.)
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