Comments on: Jim Edmonds and Greatness http://gashousegraphs.com/2010/01/09/jim-edmonds-and-greatness/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:52:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bigchieftootiemontana http://gashousegraphs.com/2010/01/09/jim-edmonds-and-greatness/#comment-159 bigchieftootiemontana Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:47:15 +0000 http://playahardnine.wordpress.com/?p=544#comment-159 Now that I look back at the article I see you didn’t look at Dawson past 1983 on the second set of tables.

]]> By: bigchieftootiemontana http://gashousegraphs.com/2010/01/09/jim-edmonds-and-greatness/#comment-158 bigchieftootiemontana Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:41:51 +0000 http://playahardnine.wordpress.com/?p=544#comment-158 Nice post Erik,
I think it’s gonna be a long wait for Jimmy Ballgame, but maybe eventually he will get elected. He just didn’t have that 10 year stretch of excellence tho. Plus his greatest seasons were in the midwest so that works against him with the biased east coast writers.
Snider is a good comp for Edmonds and it took him 16 years to get in to the Hall.
By the way, Dawson switched to right field in 1984-if defense matters on the tables.

]]> By: SMS_Mike http://gashousegraphs.com/2010/01/09/jim-edmonds-and-greatness/#comment-157 SMS_Mike Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:56:06 +0000 http://playahardnine.wordpress.com/?p=544#comment-157 Great article. Sometimes you don’t recognize greatness until it’s gone.

]]> By: eccard http://gashousegraphs.com/2010/01/09/jim-edmonds-and-greatness/#comment-156 eccard Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:50:55 +0000 http://playahardnine.wordpress.com/?p=544#comment-156 Ahem! Evans/Edmonds: Defense. you know what I mean.

Anyway, I love the fact that Jimmy compares favorably to Duke Snider. Did you know that most all of Andre Dawson’s games in an Expo uniform were broadcast with Snider as the color man? I’d like to hear what he has to say about Andre’s induction.

Off topic…back to the Hall. You know the New York media will champion the cause of the inferior Bernie Williams to be elected, so amp it up man. We all know who the better player is.

You know the one stat that gets completely ignored, which baffles the heck out of me, is batting average with runners in scoring position. I want to know who the best clutch hitters were. That’s something that should matter to HOF voters. How did Jimmy compare to Duke and Andre in this respect? Or even slg% with runners in scoring position.

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