Also, Thomas played 971 games at first base - Bagwell 2100+. Well over half of Thomas's games were at DH.
Latest update: 98.5 - R. Johnson 97.6 - P. Martinez 86.3 - Smoltz 84.9 - Biggio 76.0 - Piazza ———————————— 63.4 - Raines 62.4 - Bagwell
I always remember McLane saying that Bagwell would be the first Astros Hall of famer..... To think that Biggio was so close to leaving, up until McLane decided to pay Biggio a few more million. Of which he'd of gotten more than that amount had he left via free agency! I don't think many of us thought that Biggio would get the Hall before Baggy....
Code: Name Votes(Pct.) Yrs on ballot Randy Johnson 534 (97.3) 1 Pedro Martinez 500 (91.1) 1 John Smoltz 455 (82.9) 1 Craig Biggio 454 (82.7) 3 Mike Piazza 384 (69.9) 3 Jeff Bagwell 306 (55.7) 5 Tim Raines 302 (55) 8 Curt Schilling 215 (39.2) 3 Roger Clemens 206 (37.5) 3 Barry Bonds 202 (36.8) 3 Lee Smith 166 (30.2) 13 Edgar Martinez 148 (27) 6 Alan Trammell 138 (25.1) 14 Mike Mussina 135 (24.6) 2 Jeff Kent 77 (14) 2 Fred McGriff 71 (12.9) 9 Larry Walker 65 (11.8) 5 Gary Sheffield 64 (11.7) 1 Mark McGwire 55 (10) 9 Don Mattingly 50 (9.1) 15 Sammy Sosa 36 (6.6) 3 N. Garciaparra 30 (5.5) 1 Carlos Delgado 21 (3.8) 1 Troy Percival 4 (0.7) 1 Aaron Boone 2 (0.4) 1 Tom Gordon 2 (0.4) 1 Darin Erstad 1 (0.2) 1 Rich Aurilia 0 (0) 1 Tony Clark 0 (0) 1 Jermaine Dye 0 (0) 1 Cliff Floyd 0 (0) 1 Brian Giles 0 (0) 1 Eddie Guardado 0 (0) 1 Jason Schmidt 0 (0) 1
You may be right. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Bagwell's HOF yearly totals: 2011: 41.7 2012: 56.0 2013: 59.6 2014: 54.3 2015: 55.7</p>— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/552542458723467265">January 6, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Disappointing final number. I outlined some positives on the blog, if anyone's interested. Spoiler alert: I think Piazza's now inevitable election and Raines' big jump this year are both good things for Bagwell.
Tough for Baggy in the Hall of Fame result... But I just read how he sold one of his mansions for over 11 million dollars! At least Bagg's can rest assured he's better off financially than the presumptuous haters. I think the Baseball world can't believe that what Baggy did was incredibly impressive. His numbers never really popped out, because he was more of a 30+ HR guy. All the while, everyone was foaming at the mouth following 50++ HR seasons all too prevalent in the MLB. So when Baggy was playing, he was seen seen as a second tier type player. (Proven by only 4 All star appearances, and only 1 start at 1st base) They totally missed it as it was happening following Luis Gonzales, Caminiti, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, etc..... I remember thinking at one point, "How did Gonzales become a better slugger than Baggy? Boy did the Astros botch this one again..... Leave it to the Dis'Astros". If Baggy were using PED's, I think he'd of been a perenial 50 - 60 HR guy. Probably competing for 70+... As it turn out, Baggy for all his power never got more than 47 HR in a season. And he only got 40+ for 3 season.
All Star appearances is really a fluky thing, with the results being skewed by the requirement to include all teams as well as the number of stars at a given position in a given league. You have to add to that, for whatever reason, Bags was always a slow starter in his career. Break out his 1st half / 2nd half splits and it seemed like he struggled out of the gate every season before catching fire down the stretch. The only good start I can remember was that unbelievable MVP year, .368/.451/.570 slash line playing half his games in the Dome.
