Gold Gloves are important and a couple of World Series Rings would look good. Throw in some World Series heroics would hurt!!
What does Freddie Freeman need to do the rest of his career to have a strong HOF case?
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Gold Gloves are important and a couple of World Series Rings would look good. Throw in some World Series heroics would hurt!!
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I’m not looking it up, but I’m gonna guess Maddux’s defense had a negligible impact on his WAR despite all those GGs
I can't find his Defense WAR, but a total WAR of 104.8. Can you imagine a rotation of Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz ... just evil!!!
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Their best days were gone when I really started watching
Good young talent and still a pretty good Minor League System ... you are better than the .500 team you currently are. Lots of good Braves Baseball ahead.
Average 1B HOFer:
66.9 WAR
42.7 WAR7
54.8 JAWS
Freeman so far:
38.9 WAR
31.5 WAR7
35.2 JAWS
Unfortunately BB-Ref doesn't list the average BA/OBP/SLG% or OPS+ or anything else for positions, so I'll just use this image.
Goldschmidt might have a better case. His career OPS+ is 3 points higher, though Freeman has 349 more PA. rField does rate Goldy as a better fielder and he does have more Gold Gloves, FWIW. Goldy's also a very good baserunner by 1B standards, having 129 steals while getting caught only 33 times and rating at +22 runs from baserunning. Freeman's only got 46 steals while getting caught 21 times. Goldschmidt has a 5.7 win advantage in WAR.
66.9 WAR
42.7 WAR7
54.8 JAWS
Freeman so far:
38.9 WAR
31.5 WAR7
35.2 JAWS
Unfortunately BB-Ref doesn't list the average BA/OBP/SLG% or OPS+ or anything else for positions, so I'll just use this image.
Goldschmidt might have a better case. His career OPS+ is 3 points higher, though Freeman has 349 more PA. rField does rate Goldy as a better fielder and he does have more Gold Gloves, FWIW. Goldy's also a very good baserunner by 1B standards, having 129 steals while getting caught only 33 times and rating at +22 runs from baserunning. Freeman's only got 46 steals while getting caught 21 times. Goldschmidt has a 5.7 win advantage in WAR.
I think they've done a much better job in recent years with Gold Gloves. At least most of the winners seem to line up well with advanced metrics.
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Hall of Very Good at best. Either that, or become Barry Bonds for 7 years.
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This guy is onto something.
Get traded to the Yankees or Red Sox would be a good start.
I can't believe Andy Pettitte, Manny Ramirez, Jorge Posada, Curt Schilling and Bernie Williams are in the HOF!!!
