Don Mattingly is my favorite baseball player of all time. He embodied the sport for me as I grew up. He joined the Yankees in 1984, the year after they won the World Series, and retired after the 1995 season, the year BEFORE they won the World Series.
A bad back made Donnie become a player he didn't want to be.
The power was gone. He's a borderline hall of famer as a player and I've accepted that. His back robbed him of too many years after he was one of, if not THE best, players in the late 80s.
TwoCents reader, Danny P, showed me a website today that has a petition to get Donnie into "The Hall".
So, go over to InductDonnie.com and sign your name. For all he was for me growing up, the least I could do it forward on this information.
So, go over to InductDonnie.com and sign your name. For all he was for me growing up, the least I could do it forward on this information.
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Here we go again. The Don Mattingly argument. Let's keep this short and sweet. This link (http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/scomp.cgi?I=mattido01:Don+Mattingly&st=career) will take you to Baseball Reference which is the end all be all of baseball stats sites. Take a look at players who had similar careers to Mattingly. Here are the closest three: Cecil Cooper, Garret Anderson and Wally Joyner. Sound like HOFers? I thought not. End of story...
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess you didn't sign the petition huh? ;)
ReplyDeleteI don't think you can evaluate a player's contribution to statistics alone. Kirby Puckett's stats are closest and he deserves the Hall.
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