Retired today . I say NOT a HOF’er.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Sure is.

No shot, twinkle toes.

No

15 years loyalty to the same team.

#Respect

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Hall of very good.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Can't believe those suckers passed on Prior!

MVP, best at his position for almost a decade, decent guy & teammate, in.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Hall of the Very Good. Not a HOF.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I wonder what would have happened if he decided to be the QB at FSU.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Did not even play catcher the last half of his career. He was a light hitting Mark Grace. Hall of Good. HOF, no way.

Drafted for sure by Kenny Williams.

Part of me feels anyone with three batting titles is an automatic, but I have to lean a bit toward no with Mauer.

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The case from baseball-reference: https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... jo01.shtml

MVP
6x All-Star
3x Gold Glove
5x Silver Slugger
3x Batting Title

HOFers Craig Biggio, Mickey Cochrane (catcher of those great 1930s Philadelphia A's! I guess!), and Alan Trammell turn up in his similarity scores, but they're dominated by Hall of Pretty Good for a Long Timers like Michael Young, Ray Durham, and Benito Santiago.

He's well short on all the Hall trackers: 15 in Black Ink (league-leading season stats) when he'd need 27, and a mere 43 in Gray Ink when he needs 144.

By the numbers, he's a no, but he's a hometown franchise player who got the Twins good enough to get a replacement for the Metrodome. I'd say keep him in your back pocket if you need an induction in a slow year, but not first-ballot.

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No. As others have said he's in the Hall of Very Good.

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Much closer to it than Mark Prior

Correct.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Surefire if he could hit some dingers. But he didn't, so no. HOF catcher/1B need dingers.

Sideburns are in, but he isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9H8ZudKo3M

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Not first ballot, but yes.

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Similar to Craig Biggio, so yes he will eventually be in the HOF.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

"If the person making your HOF thread can't even spell your name, you might not be a HOFer."

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Not Mark Prior but yes.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

If Craig Biggio was a first basemen in the second half of his career, he would not be HOF worthy either

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Ehhh, I think the 3000 hits gets him in regardless . Still hit almost 300 career HR’s as well.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Mauer makes me want the Hall to be bigger. It's already getting to the point where some guys are in and you wonder why other guys are out...so why not let a lot more players in without it becoming Basketball or Football? We know who the best-of-the-best are anyway, so why not honor a lot more players that treated the game right and were awesome players as well. The Hall wouldn't be lesser with Mauer, Mattingly, Murphy, Whitaker, Bernie Williams, and many more guys that are considered borderline. Of course there will always be a borderline, but if the old standard was two HOF players per year, I'm ready for that to be four with a lot of players from the past getting in while they can enjoy it with their families.

Jay Jaffe has him rated higher than the average catcher in JAWS and said he would vote for him if given the opportunity.

Mauer DID get the shit kicked out of him being a catcher. And he was awesome during those years. The question is do we give him the Sandy Koufax pass? MANY knowledgeable fans and writers would. I wouldn't. I'm a prick, I guess. I think Koufax is iffy.

I know that barn door has been open for a long time but I think voters should start with the presumption against a player being HOF worthy when they begin their scrutiny.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Not a HOF player

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