(He played in two games with the 1993 Blue Jays.) However, St. Louis advanced to the 2006 World Series after winning Game Seven of the NLCS. This section deviates from players of Delgado’s era, to ascertain some of Delgado’s achievements relative to stars of bygone eras, i.e., Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Fox, among others. Their Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFM) comparisons indicate Delgado’s HOFM batting index was 110 versus McGriff’s 100, with 100 as “average” for a HOF. Senator Richard M. Nixon, in 1952, when Nixon was campaigning for Vice-President. Obviously, we can go into his stats, the Gold Gloves, the All-Star games, and the batting titles … but the legacy, that fight for justice, social justice, I think is more important.”Delgado opposed the U.S. Navy bombing of Vieques, a Puerto Rico off-shore municipality, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nixon, a huge baseball fan, visited with Robinson after Game Five of the 1952 World Series, in the visitor’s locker room at Yankee Stadium.
Others, including Lee Smith, Larry Walker, Tim Raines, and Edgar Martinez did not make the cut for election to the Hall in 2015 but did so in subsequent years.The rules for election into the Hall of Fame are simple: a player must have played in 10 seasons and have been retired for five.
McGriff had very fine post-season stats in 50 games: .303/.385/.532 slash line, with a .917 OPS.
Of note is that Delgado was traded by Santurce to San Juan, for Villanueva, 1992-93 season. And it wasn’t even close. To be elected to the Hall, a player must get 75% of the vote, and to stay on the ballot for subsequent years, he must get at least 5% of the votes. (Residents of Puerto Rico can only vote in Democrat and Republican Primaries, but not in a general election. Delgado was quoted by Adrian Burgos in a June 8, 2019 La Vida Béisbol blog:“The reason why I wore 21 is because of Clemente,” Delgado said at his Extra Bases Foundation office in Dorado, Puerto Rico. OPS+ is an index, factoring in ballpark dimensions, altitude, among other factors.C: Ted Simmons (voted in by an Era Committee; to be inducted in 2021)# The author might insert Mo Vaughn (.906 career OPS) at DH, since Galarraga was in the NL.Delgado (473 HR), José Canseco (462 HR), Dave Kingman (442 HR) and Darrell Evans (414 HR) are the only MLB hitters with 400+ career HR who were “one and done.” Simmons (1968-1988 MLB career) got “the HOF call” at age 70, after he and Marvin Miller received enough committee votes. The 2x AL All-Star and 3x AL Silver SLG, hit 30+ HR in 10 straight seasons, 1997-to-2006. Carlos Delgado was a “one and done” ex-MLB player, with 3.8 percent of the writers’ votes for the Cooperstown Class of 2015. And while Delgado went on to have a tremendous career that spanned 17 years, unlike his idol, the former first baseman for the Blue Jays and New York Mets was not voted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. His best (Puerto Rico) season was in 1994-95, for champion San Juan: .323 AVG and .658 SLG, with a league-leading 12 HR and 47 RBIs, in a 54-game season. The other three—Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro—all have PED storm clouds hovering over them, but Bonds is still eligible via the writers. Cabrera is on a path to Cooperstown. He joins such players as Vlad Guerrero, © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. USA TODAY Sports. Delgado, 1994-95 league MVP, caught for San Juan.The best team Delgado ever played on was the February 4-9, 1995 Caribbean Series “Dream Team,” with him catching; Carmelo Martínez (1B), Roberto Alomar (2B), Carlos Baerga (3B), Rey Sánchez (SS), Juan González (LF), Bernie Williams (CF), Rubén Sierra (RF), and DH Edgar Martínez. Hall of Fame case: Carlos Delgado likely shy of the Hall.
Four of them—Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Mike Schmidt and Eddie Matthews—are in the Hall of Fame. Delgado’s stats will be compared with Jeff Bagwell, Fred McGriff, Frank Thomas, and others of his era. Carlos Delgado grew up idolizing former Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder Roberto Clemente, a fellow Puerto Rican who died six months after Delgado was born. So, why was Delgado a “one and done” player? Others opine that pro ballplayers and ex-ballplayers should just focus on the game, and ignore politics. Then, his seven hits in 23 AB versus St. Louis in the NLCS, included three HR.
Delgado achieved:Only 10 HOF eligible players ever had an OPS of .900 plus in at least nine consecutive seasons in which they qualified for the batting title. Carlos Delgado is the best player in history to get booted off the Hall of Fame ballot after his first year. He holds the all-time Major League Baseball home run record among Puerto Rican players, with 473. With all the players that come from Latin American countries, you’d want to see more managers.”Delgado was the batting coach for Team Puerto Rico in the 2013 and 2017 World Baseball Classics (WBC). He drove in nine in that series, and was walked six times.
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