The Case for Jeff Bagwell in the Hall of Fame

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Also, Thomas played 971 games at first base - Bagwell 2100+. Well over half of Thomas's games were at DH.

 

Almost close to the announcement!!! Starting to legit get nervous.

 

Latest update:

98.5 - R. Johnson
97.6 - P. Martinez
86.3 - Smoltz
84.9 - Biggio
76.0 - Piazza
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63.4 - Raines
62.4 - Bagwell

 

4 new members!!!

 

WOOHOO!

 

Congrats to Biggio! Always my favorite player. I am so glad I got to see his 3,000th hit game.

 

55.7% for Bagwell

 

Up but still a travesty that it's this low.

 

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....

 

At least he didn't go down... but it will be tough. Piazza will likely get in next year.

 

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>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/552542458723467265">January 6, 2015</a></blockquote>
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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.

 

Bagwell should have been the first...kind of a bittersweet day

 

This is the most interesting Biggio has ever been in an interview. Lol. On mlbtv right now.

 

That's not saying much.

 

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.

 

That's what I mean.

 

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.