Thursday, December 31, 2009

and yes...

Edgar Martinez should be in the Hall too. No, I don't care that he was a career DH, it's time to move out of the '50s and his career numbers are as follows:
.312/.418 (!)/.515 (!)/.933, 147 OPS+

Going 1990-2003:
.317/.426/.531/.957, 153 OPS+

Those numbers are really really ridiculous. I mean, the guy took my team and stomped all over it in the 1995 ALDS (*weeps for Donnie Baseball*), and I still respect the hell out of him. If he doesn't make the Hall it's probably because there are a bunch of cranky old people who will NEVAH vote for a DH. But you gotta consider that he was, for an extended period of time, the best ever at his position. Yeah we should be a little more selective about DHs, but his numbers totally pass the test.