https://theathletic.com/1546428/2020/01/29/the-baseball-100-no-58-jeff-bagwell/ How we stole this guy from the Red Sox:
I hope the other 42 people behind him either had to sweat out multiple years on the ballot before getting into the HoF or aren't in it at all!! Congratulations, Baggy!
Loved him so much. I'm glad he's getting more recognition as time goes on. I'm also glad to see Frank Thomas below him at #74.
About damn time. Still can't believe those morons put the Big Fat in first ballot while Bagwell waited seven years.
The most complete player I've ever seen. Good fielder before his shoulder fell off and an otherworldly base running acumen on top of his hitting ability One of the great shames is that a grand total of 11 games in the late 90's permanently ruined his legacy to so many shortsighted people around here.
I'll hazard a guess: Springer, Altuve, Verlander, Bregman, Gurriel, Cole, Correa, MarGo, and the Trash Can.
I understand that Trash Can put up insane WAR numbers between 2017 and 2019 but it's from the DH position. Bags actually had to play defense and played it well
List them, Joe Smith. That article is written by analysts who've studied this both statistically and within the historical narrative. So, being all high and mighty and blowing it off with "recency bias": list 99 players in baseball better than Jeff Bagwell. I'll be waiting.