kevin brown hof

He needed one more good year and a defining moment or two for a yes vote. The discussion about who belongs there should be joyful, rather than punitive.I used to feel invested in the outcome, less for the players I grew up rooting for — I didn’t watch much baseball until college, so I possessed no childhood favorites — but for the players whose abilities aligned with my own ideology. Brown may have "only" had 211 wins, but that's about the same as Schilling, Smoltz, Coveleski, or Drysdale.

I think that hurt him more than the Mitchell Report.I am firmly of the belief that Brown should be in the Hall. Guys like Cone or Bunning are the guys who sit on that line, and guys like Pennock are the clear mistakes.

I'll never see WHIP as more important than wins. In his first year on the ballot, the late Roy Halladay looks like a lock.

There hasn’t been much love for Brown. "His most similar pitcher is Bob Welch, and in many ways that seems about right"I don't like this point, as it is a misuse of similarity scores. I'd give Andy a little more credit than that for the playoffs --he's remarkably good and consistent, but during the playoffs it's against nothing but the best. I assume the Mitchell Report cost him HOF votes, fairly of unfairly, although the voting population that holds PED use against players seems to be the same crowd that votes for Jack Morris over Kevin Brown because they don’t believe in statistics (except wins of course). It is a team sport, and you can't give the credit for a victory to a single player. Despite making no argument, lets just see how it plays out. “Which I think is great. The HOM does correctly put Trammell, Santo, Blyleven, and Simmons in. I never saw him pitch, but I believe this to be true. Trump’s payroll tax deferral is a mortal threat to Social Security.President Trump said the Secret Service shot a ‘suspect’ outside the White House on Monday.

He never won a CYA, but he had CY-caliber years, and a great peak overall. The same would be true for Schilling or Smoltz. Obviously, this is SOMEWHAT true for any player.

I personally like the nationally game more, but the AL is brutal --i.e. “I wish I would have done something really important in my life.”A look at some of the greatest moments in sports history to have occurred on Aug. 11.Dodgers pitcher Kevin Brown takes aim at the Atlanta Braves in a 2003 game at Dodger Stadium. It would make sense if he was passed over because he appeared on the … His Tigers teammate pitchers in the 1980s had similar just above average ERAs and put up almost identical winning percentages to Morris.

Brown stunk.

You can flag a comment by clicking its flag icon. So, no, not looking at the playoffs is ridiculous. They are as equally important.I agree most of the biggest mistakes have been due to the veterans committee, and if anything the writers elect too few guys. He had a really good peak of about 7 years in NL and his AL numbers are a bit less. He's a borderliner, but just out. If you pull down Brown so much that he is not a HOF due to 25 WS innings, to be consistent you have to put such a heavy weight on WS performance that Phil Garner and his .500 career WS batting average is a HOFer. Very good pitchers, all, and perhaps Brown was the best of those names, but even saying that, I don't think any of them are really legitimate HOF candidates.I'm still not sure where I fall on Brown, but I will say this: I'd take him over Morris.I tend to think if Coney won another 25 games or so he would have went in or at least would have gotten significant play.

It doesn't help him and doesn't hurt him. “Kevin’s the most dominant pitcher I’ve ever played with,” Al Leiter told Sports Illustrated in 1999, soon after Brown inked a $105-million deal with the Dodgers.The case for Brown combines both an extended record of success and a peak period of dominance.The voters of the Baseball Writers Assn.

I don't know how "normal" these numbers are, but given that he had a max of 2 DL stints over the two years, and spent the entirety of both seasons in the big leagues AND his IP/GS was roughly in line with his career average, it seems as if this was the likely culprit for decreased starts in those two years.So, leaving out the beginning and end (which still matter), he had 8 of 10 seasons in the middle of his career over 230 IP, with the other 2 being at 170.To be honest, I was surprised at this as well, as I remember durability being an issue.

2 of those losses were in his Marlins run with an ERA over 8.00! He pitched poorly in the 97 WS, was outdueled by Pettite in the 98 WS and he got pounded in the 04 ALCS. Handsome Dayn Perry can be found making love to the reader at As long as Ron Santo isn’t there, he will always be #1 on the list of most deserving.

The guy's career was short but he was an amazing pitcher when healthy, and if you're going to have 200-some players, he should probably slide in. .........and his team won the WS with him going 1-0 in 2 starts and a ERA of 2. Also, the guy averaged 5.1 IP/start in playoffs.Sorry, that should have been 6.1 IP start. Mike Mussina has a chance. Marlins pitcher Kevin Brown wore this cap on June 10, 1997, when he tossed a 9-0 no-hitter against the Giants in San Francisco. Let's honor the real stars of that team like Jackson and Bando and not give the credit to Catfish, who was perfectly decent but was not the reason for those wins.