Ranking the HoF Players: 42-45

[DoubleX]

Here's a look at those top 7 LFers in Freakshow's list when measured by WAR for seasons in which the player played more often in LF than anywhere else:

1) Barry Bonds - 168.9 (1987-2007)
2) Ted Williams - 118.5 (1940-1942, 1946-1960)
3) Rickey Henderson - 92.7 (1979-1984, 1988-2003)
4) Carl Yastrzemski - 58.9 (1961-1963, 1965-1969, 1971-1972, 1977-1978)
5) Babe Ruth - 48.1 (1918-1919, 1921-1922, 1926, 1935)
6) Stan Musial - 31.2 (1942, 1951, 1953, 1960-1963)
7) Frank Robinson - 21.6 (1956-1958, 1963)

Now obviously this is somewhat misleading in that several of these players would move around within a season and have several other seasons where they would play lots of games in LF (Musial and Yastrzemski in particular), though still, if the player is playing more games at other positions within a season that player can't really be defined as a LFer for that season (plus, it would be too difficult to break down the in-season WAR by position). Plus, this just shows that numbers can be easily played with to make a variety of points.

[DoubleX]

Bumping up with two days left.

[Freakshow]

"WAR is not the only stat we look at."

- WAR fanatics

Nice straw man.

[Freakshow]

1 Dan Brouthers
2 Arky Vaughan
3 Ed Delahanty
4 Charlie Gehringer
5 Reggie Jackson
6 Steve Carlton
7 Joe Williams
8 Bob Gibson
9 Carl Yastrzemski
10 Wade Boggs

[DoubleX]

This election is over with the results below - keep in mind that we elected only four players this time as we elected six in the last election due to a tie for the final spot:

1) Bob Gibson - 94 (83 points, 12 votes; 1 first place)
2) Joe Williams - 92 (81 points, 11 votes; 4 first place)
3) Carl Yastrzemski - 76 (62 points, 14 votes)
4) Hank Greenberg - 74 (65 points, 9 votes; 2 first place)

5) Dan Brouthers - 59 (49 points, 10 votes; 1 first place)
6) Ed Delahanty - 55 (47 points, 8 votes; 1 first place)
7) Steve Carlton - 49 (39 points, 10 votes)
8) Sandy Koufax - 49 (42 points, 7 votes; 1 first place)
9) Al Kaline - 39 (32 votes, 7 votes)
10) John Ward - 39 (35 points, 4 votes; 2 first place)
11) Johnny Mize - 36 (30 points, 6 votes)
12) Turkey Stearnes - 34 (29 points, 5 votes)
13) Wade Boggs - 32 (26 points, 6 votes)
t14) Reggie Jackson - 31 (26 points, 5 votes)
t14) Charlie Gehringer - 31 (26 points, 5 votes)
16) Arky Vaughan - 31 (28 points, 3 votes; 1 first place)
t17) Mickey Cochrane - 18 (15 points, 3 votes)
t17) Roger Connor - 18 (15 points, 3 votes)
t19) King Kelly - 16 (13 votes, 3 points)
t19) Tony Gwynn - 16 (13 votes, 3 points)
21) Eddie Murray - 12 (10 points, 2 votes)
22) John Clarkson - 11 (10 points, 1 vote; 1 first place)
23) Roy Campanella - 10 (8 points, 2 votes)
24) Jesse Burkett - 10 (9 points, 1 vote)
25) Nolan Ryan - 7 (6 points, 1 vote)
26) Robin Yount - 6 (4 points, 2 votes)
27) Bullet Rogan - 6 (5 points, 1 vote)
t28) Martin Dihigo - 5 (4 points, 1 vote)
t28) Juan Marichal - 5 (4 points, 1 vote)
t30) Frank Baker - 3 (2 points, 1 vote)
t30) Sam Crawford - 3 (2 points, 1 vote)
t32) Willie McCovey - 2 (1 point, 1 vote)
t32) Willie Stargell - 2 (1 point, 1 vote)
t32) Paul Waner - 2 (1 point, 1 vote)