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What’s in a name? With so many threads, when we rate a player, one stat gets thrown out. It’s OPS+. The final arbitrator, the ultimate truth, and the untouchable answer. With it, a player has status. Without it, one is regulated to being something less. It doesn’t lie. One can’t hide. Either you rate or you don’t. It’s the be all and end all.
SOOOO…. Why not make Hall of Fame selection based on this infallible quotient? But what number shall we set? I know when I started on message boards in 2008, I advocated for Tony Oliva in the HOF. “ Away you heathen,” I was told. “ Have you not heard of OPS+” “Nay,” said I. “Can there be but one stat that decides all?” “Aye” said they,” and Oliva’s 131 does not make him worthy. ” “ But aren’t slugging and on base, too similar to add together,” said I. “Away with you, satan” said they, “and whoa to you oh Joe Carter and Steve Garvey, your deeds have no merit against the all powerful OPS+. ”
There could be a method to this madness. So we’ll set the bar of OPS+ at 140 to see which potential HOFers are to be or not to be. But all that glitters is not gold, so we should make positional adjustments 125 for middle infielders and 130 for catchers;
Who is now in, among others:
Pete Browning “ the world’s mine oyster’
Dave Orr “ to sleep, perchance to dream”
Dick Allen “what piece of work is a man”
Charlie Keller “now we go in content”
Miquel Cabrerra “give me my robe, put on my crown”
Gavvy Cravath “fortune’s fool”
Charlie Jones “The quality of mercy is not strained”
Jeff Bagwell “What light through yonder window breaks”
Benny Kauff “Oh happy dagger”
Ryan Braun “a lean and hungry look”
Edgar Martinez “such stuff that dreams are made of”
Jim Thome “Et tu Brute?”
Lance Berkman “Prodigious birth”
Mike Donlin “chance may crown me”
Albert Belle “The serpent’s egg”
Alex Rodriquez “every inch a king”
Frank Howard “tower of strength”
Kevin Mitchell “a round unvarinshed tale”
Gene Tenace “That way madness lies”
Joe Mauer “flaming youth”
Hardy Richardson “Full circle”
Hanley Ramirez “dancing days”
Joe Torre “Breathe life into a stone”
Larry Doyle “method in the madness”
Bobby Grich “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
And who is out, among many:
Reggie Jackson “all the world’s a stage”
Al Kaline “alas poor Yorick”
Al Simmons “Beware the Ides of March”
Carl Yastrzemski “a plague on both your houses”
Mickey Cochrane “The winter of our discontent”
Rickey Henderson “ The most unkindest cut of all”
Roberto Clemente “let’s kill all the lawyers
Johnny Bench “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
SOOOO…. Why not make Hall of Fame selection based on this infallible quotient? But what number shall we set? I know when I started on message boards in 2008, I advocated for Tony Oliva in the HOF. “ Away you heathen,” I was told. “ Have you not heard of OPS+” “Nay,” said I. “Can there be but one stat that decides all?” “Aye” said they,” and Oliva’s 131 does not make him worthy. ” “ But aren’t slugging and on base, too similar to add together,” said I. “Away with you, satan” said they, “and whoa to you oh Joe Carter and Steve Garvey, your deeds have no merit against the all powerful OPS+. ”
There could be a method to this madness. So we’ll set the bar of OPS+ at 140 to see which potential HOFers are to be or not to be. But all that glitters is not gold, so we should make positional adjustments 125 for middle infielders and 130 for catchers;
Who is now in, among others:
Pete Browning “ the world’s mine oyster’
Dave Orr “ to sleep, perchance to dream”
Dick Allen “what piece of work is a man”
Charlie Keller “now we go in content”
Miquel Cabrerra “give me my robe, put on my crown”
Gavvy Cravath “fortune’s fool”
Charlie Jones “The quality of mercy is not strained”
Jeff Bagwell “What light through yonder window breaks”
Benny Kauff “Oh happy dagger”
Ryan Braun “a lean and hungry look”
Edgar Martinez “such stuff that dreams are made of”
Jim Thome “Et tu Brute?”
Lance Berkman “Prodigious birth”
Mike Donlin “chance may crown me”
Albert Belle “The serpent’s egg”
Alex Rodriquez “every inch a king”
Frank Howard “tower of strength”
Kevin Mitchell “a round unvarinshed tale”
Gene Tenace “That way madness lies”
Joe Mauer “flaming youth”
Hardy Richardson “Full circle”
Hanley Ramirez “dancing days”
Joe Torre “Breathe life into a stone”
Larry Doyle “method in the madness”
Bobby Grich “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
And who is out, among many:
Reggie Jackson “all the world’s a stage”
Al Kaline “alas poor Yorick”
Al Simmons “Beware the Ides of March”
Carl Yastrzemski “a plague on both your houses”
Mickey Cochrane “The winter of our discontent”
Rickey Henderson “ The most unkindest cut of all”
Roberto Clemente “let’s kill all the lawyers
Johnny Bench “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
) post the first 17 catchers in OPS+ and so on. would be interesting to see.
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