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MaxPower wrote:Santo and Rolen are two of the top 10 third basemen of all time. Any Hall that excludes them would be ridiculously small. Cey, Delgado, and McGriff are closer to borderline. Baines and JuanGon probably don't belong.
The HOF already includes 276 players, so any inquiry into adding someone should start with "does he have a credible case for being one of the top 276 players all-time?" By that standard Santo and Rolen are clearly, easily deserving. And that's not "Big Hall," that's just maintaining current standards. Don't gotta make Baines the standard just because a not-very-bright committee voted him in.
I was thinking about this and wondering why 3B seems to be the weakest position in baseball. There don't seem to be a lot of 3B that would be in the top 276.
Schmidt obviously and I won't argue about Rolen and Santo (and Boggs). But there are not many names that come to mind as ATG 3rd basemen.