So, why was Delgado a “one and done” player? Then, his seven hits in 23 AB versus St. Louis in the NLCS, included three HR. Eight are in the Hall: Gehrig, Foxx, Schmidt, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle and Mike Piazza. If the vote falls below the 5% threshold, he is eligible for election by the veteran committee after 16 years. This section deviates from players of Delgado’s era, to ascertain some of Delgado’s achievements relative to stars of bygone eras, i.e., Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Fox, among others. Carlos Delgado was a “one and done” ex-MLB player, with 3.8 percent of the writers’ votes for the Cooperstown Class of 2015. Carlos Delgado is the best player in history to get booted off the Hall of Fame ballot after his first year. McGriff had very fine post-season stats in 50 games: .303/.385/.532 slash line, with a .917 OPS. With thanks and appreciation to Carlos Delgado, for conversing with the author at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, pre-1995-96 season. Nixon, a huge baseball fan, visited with Robinson after Game Five of the 1952 World Series, in the visitor’s locker room at Yankee Stadium. His 12 HR outpaced Santurce’s Héctor Villanueva (11) and Caguas’s Juan González (10). To be elected to the Hall, a player must get 75% of the vote, and to stay on the ballot for subsequent years, he must get at least 5% of the votes. OPS+ is an index, factoring in ballpark dimensions, altitude, among other factors.C: Ted Simmons (voted in by an Era Committee; to be inducted in 2021)# The author might insert Mo Vaughn (.906 career OPS) at DH, since Galarraga was in the NL.Delgado (473 HR), José Canseco (462 HR), Dave Kingman (442 HR) and Darrell Evans (414 HR) are the only MLB hitters with 400+ career HR who were “one and done.” Simmons (1968-1988 MLB career) got “the HOF call” at age 70, after he and Marvin Miller received enough committee votes.
Their Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFM) comparisons indicate Delgado’s HOFM batting index was 110 versus McGriff’s 100, with 100 as “average” for a HOF. Delgado’s stats will be compared with Jeff Bagwell, Fred McGriff, Frank Thomas, and others of his era. Cabrera is on a path to Cooperstown. Delgado’s OPS and OPS+ (.929 and 138) surpass McGriff’s .886 and 134, respectively, per Table III.TABLE III: AB/HR and RBIs, HOFM Batting Index, SLG, OPS and OPS+McGriff’s .285 career AVG surpassed Delgado’s .280 AVG, but Delgado’s .383 OBP and .546 SLG are superior to McGriff’s .377 OBP and .509 SLG.
Delgado drove in a run every 4.82 AB, compared to McGriff’s one RBI every 5.65 AB. His best (Puerto Rico) season was in 1994-95, for champion San Juan: .323 AVG and .658 SLG, with a league-leading 12 HR and 47 RBIs, in a 54-game season. Simmons’s eventual HOF induction is the only bright spot for Delgado here.Delgado played part of the 2009-10 Puerto Rico winter season for the Carolina Giants, after concluding his MLB career with the 2009 New York Mets. Carlos Delgado on the other hand, suffered a much crueler fate when it comes to Cooperstown. His preference for wearing #21 with the New York Mets was due to his admiration for Roberto Clemente, who passed away when Delgado was 27 weeks old, December 31, 1972.
Their Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFM) comparisons indicate Delgado’s HOFM batting index was 110 versus McGriff’s 100, with 100 as “average” for a HOF. )When the Atlanta Braves fired Fredi González as manager, mid-May 2016, leaving MLB without a Latino manager for the first time in 25 years, Delgado said: “It’s really sad. Delgado had an OK career in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League, with a .245 AVG and .437 SLG, 36 HR and 120 RBIs, in 783 AB, equivalent to 25 HR and 84 RBIs, in 550 AB. Others, including Lee Smith, Larry Walker, Tim Raines, and Edgar Martinez did not make the cut for election to the Hall in 2015 but did so in subsequent years.The rules for election into the Hall of Fame are simple: a player must have played in 10 seasons and have been retired for five. Four of them—Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Mike Schmidt and Eddie Matthews—are in the Hall of Fame. However, St. Louis advanced to the 2006 World Series after winning Game Seven of the NLCS.
Jorge Colón Delgado furnished Carlos’s Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League regular season stats.Copyright 2013-2020 Jorge Colón Delgado/Site developer Against a star-studded ballot, Delgado notched just The veterans’ committee is made up of 16 voters, and to be elected in this path, a candidate must get 12 of the 16 votes. Bill James’ Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFM) is another tool TABLE II: WAR, Seven-year peak WAR and JAWS, six 1BMcGriff’s HOF case by Chris Bodig, via his February 24, 2019 blog, can be reviewed at: This comparison includes old/traditional metrics with some sabermetrics. Hall of Fame case: Carlos Delgado likely shy of the Hall. Obviously, we can go into his stats, the Gold Gloves, the All-Star games, and the batting titles … but the legacy, that fight for justice, social justice, I think is more important.”Delgado opposed the U.S. Navy bombing of Vieques, a Puerto Rico off-shore municipality, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And it wasn’t even close. Many Statewide baseball fans who focus on MLB stats may not be aware that Delgado began his pro baseball career as a catcher. Carlos Delgado speaks during his induction to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys, Ont. “As a Puerto Rican, you understand how big Clemente was.