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Excellent Article--This is Pig Pen's week!

Delmonico

Delmonico

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If he gets in on the 1st ballot he'll have Clemons, Bonds and Sosa's steroids connections to thank.


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He has 3,000 hits so he must be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, right? He does compare closely to Robin Yount:
Robin Yount vs. Craig Biggio
Player G H AVG OBP SLG OPS+ Yount 2,856 3,142 .285 .342 .430 115 Biggio 2,850 3,060 .281 .363 .433 112
Not so fast. Yount did get elected on the first ballot -- but barely so. He needed 373 votes for election and received 385. Biggio is a slightly worse candidate than Yount if only because his on-base skill was inflated by his creative use of an elbow pad (he was hit by pitches only 36 times in his first seven years, and then 205 in the next nine) and because his career numbers were themselves padded as a below average player. More than a third of his career hit total occurred in the eight years after he turned 33, when he batted .266 and posted a 95 OPS+. Criticized for hanging on too long, Biggio, to his credit, kept himself fit enough to play such a long time.
Biggio's value resides not so much in his 3,000 hits as much as it does a seven-year prime that began soon after he moved to second base and his power suddenly spiked (.303/.397/.473). He also was an exceptional baserunner and adept fielder. Like Yount, Biggio figures to fall right around the 75 percent threshold. (Roberto Alomar and Barry Larkin were better players, and neither made it on first ballot.) It's a close call, but if he does have to wait, it won't be for long.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/11/30/hall-of-fame-jack-morris-craig-biggio-curt-schilling/index.html#ixzz2HIz6vyYO[/background]​
 
PurplePainD

PurplePainD

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Except lightning. In a high school All-Star game in 1982, Biggio, playing second base for the first time in his life, was on the field when lightning struck. The impact knocked Biggio to the ground, and momentarily knocked him out. He awoke in the fetal position. He saw the shortstop, 40 feet away. "His sock was on fire, there was hole in his chest," Biggio said. The shortstop died on the field that day, and Biggio said, "for months, when there was lightning, I would go to the basement. It took me about 10 years to get over that."
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Good luck to Bigg!
 
BrewingFrog

BrewingFrog

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He's a first-ballot no-brainer if there ever was one, based purely on attitude alone.

I would dearly love to see he and Baggy in there together, for it was truly a wonderful thing to watch those guys play the game.
 

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