Saw the title on espn screamed and scared the **** out my dog. Great ****ing news!!! Wonder if Billy the KId can get in but he's only 10%. All I know is if Trevor is a lock next year Wags should find his way in soon enough.
Congrats Bags...7 year wait. Not gonna lie, always looked like he juiced up...but he seemingly went unscathed...
Exactly. Nope. Frank "The Big Fat" Thomas went on on his first year of eligibility. Bags is head-and-shoulders the superior baseball player to that ball of fat who actually DHed more than he played first because the only thing he could do was swing it. If THAT guy is a first-ballot guy, then Bagwell is for sure. Thomas went in in 2014. Bagwell should have gone in in 2010. Period. For more a very egregious injustice done by the BBWAA. I honestly don't know what in the hell these guys could have been thinking, other than the ridiculous witch hunt. So glad a lot of those prune jobs are being eliminated from the voting. But screw all that: he's finally in. Awesome.
Some stats on Baggy: Career RISP: AB 2,079 Hits 639 Avg .307 2B. 123 3B. 10 HR. 122 BB. 555 OBP .448 SLG. .552 SF 98 Career VS: Maddux AB 82 Avg .305 Smoltz AB 82 Avg. .293 *Smoltz said last night on MLB that almost every right handed hitter he faced he felt he had an advantage over (but not Baggy). Glavine AB 62 Avg .339 Schilling AB 70 Avg. .243 T Hoffman AB 19 Avg. .316 O Hershiser AB 29 Avg. .276 Pedro AB 26 Avg. .192 J Rijo AB 41 Avg. .415 K Brown AB 29 Avg. .276 K Wood AB 37 Avg. .297 H Nomo AB 36 Avg .361 A Leiter AB 30 Avg. .337
I was pretty annoyed when his name got announced, not because he doesn't deserve to be in the HOF, but it just further shows the inconsistency of the BBWA, making Baggy wait 7 years and Pudge going in right away. Rangers snobs/idiots were even complaining 76% was too LOW for Pudge, freakin idiots they have no idea what has been going on. Anyway, not going to let that disrupt the celebration, congrats Baggy!!
