(Photo by JOHN G. MABANGLO/AFP via Getty Images). When Bill Veeck brought him back to the White Sox for a two-game stint in 1980, he became the first player to appear in five different decades and also became the last active former Negro League baseball player. He had six 200-hit seasons and finished his 19-year career with a .294 lifetime average. generally a low batting average used to be a bad thing and the only way to make the hall as a sub 300 hitter used to be hitting 500+ home runs (killebrew). If McGriff's totals continue to trend upward, he could gain a groundswell of support, especially without the specter of steroid abuse holding him back. 2,000 on Monday night. In fact, his highest single-season average was just .267, and he once hit .159 in nearly 500 plate appearances. Bridges was a fine pitcher for the Tigers starting in 1930 and running right up until he was called into service for World War II in 1944. The big draw for Maris' Hall of Fame case is obviously his 61 home runs in 1961. Travis was a popular shortstop and third baseman for the Washington Senators who missed four seasons of action when he was shipped off to fight in World War II just as he was reaching the prime of his career. Gonzalez racked up his total over 19 seasonas and 10,531 major league plate appearances and led the. Don Mattingly was a New York Yankee his entire career and would definitely be in the hall of fame if not for his back problems that developed later in his career. Minimum of 1000 IP, 3000 PA, 500 games (fielding, 500 IP for Ps), 200 stolen base attempts (catchers) or 80 stolen base attempts (baserunners only since 1951) or 100 decisions for career and active leaderboards for rate statistics. He lasted just five years before falling off after getting just 4.8 percent of the vote in 2011. Although he never really had that true great season, he was the mark of consistency for two decades. The two-time World Series winner finished his career with 2,182 hits and two injury-plagued seasons at the end of his career dropped his lifetime average below .300 to .296. The Cobra won two batting titles with the Pirates (1977-78) and won the 1978 NL MVP award. Evans played tremendous defense at third base and belted 414 career home runs, but received just eight votes the only year he appeared on the MLB Hall of Fame ballot. He had four top-four finishes in Cy Young award voting, winning the award unanimously in 1988. He finished with 2,210 career hits and played excellent defense. McGwire's candidacy is obviously tainted by his steroids admissions, and it could keep him out of the Hall of Fame altogether. He was one of the better fielding second basemen of his time. Still, he should have gotten a little more support on the Hall of Fame ballot. During that time, Harder made four straight All-Star games. Parrish was considered one of the top all-around catchers of the 1980s along with Gary Carter, Carlton Fisk and Ted Simmons. From 1982 to 1985, Murphy played in every single game, was an NL All-Star, Gold Glove and Silver Slugger award winner, and finished in the top 10 in MVP voting in each season. Like Dave McNally, who appeared earlier on this list, Cuellar had a terrific, but brief, peak as a pitcher for the great Orioles' staff of the 1970s. George Kell was a 10-time All-Star and hit more than .300 nine times. Richardson was a clutch World Series player and still remains the only player from a losing team to win the World Series MVP. Magee was one of 10 pre-1943 players who came under consideration for enshrinement in 2008, but he fell short. Morris is in a race against time and semantics in his quest to make it to Cooperstown. He is responsible for one of the game's greatest accomplishments, though, pitching back-to-back no-hitters in 1938. Minoso is a player whose importance transcends hisaccomplishmentson the diamond. With Ron Santo's election to the Hall of Fame, many now feel that Boyer is the best third baseman not enshrined in Cooperstown. The star of the 1931 World Series, Martin was a four-time All-Star and twice was a top-10 MVP player. He finished with 254 career wins, finished in the top five in Cy Young voting five times and won 20 games three times. Parker is one of those players who got much less recognition on the Hall of Fame ballot than he deserved. Garvey was a remarkably consistent and clutch performer for the great Dodgers teams for over a decade in the 1970s and 1980s. Doug Clark to be inducted in WMass Baseball Hall of Fame. After his playing career ended Buck became a scout for the Cubs, signing Lou Brock for the team. Remarkably, he finished with 90 more votes than teammate Duke Snider who would go on to be elected in 1980. He currently ranks 12th and is 18 hits away from tying Paul Molitor, who currently occupies 10th place. He consistently finished in the top 10 for Hall of Fame voting, but he never cracked the 30 percent barrier. He has just two years left on the ballot but figures to have a tough time cracking through against stiff competition the next two seasons. Here are the 25 best hitters in Major League Baseball history. He finished first or second in fielding percentage for 13 of his 19 major league seasons. He led the NL in home runs four times. At the time of his retirement, only Harmon Killebrew and Jimmie Foxx had more home runs in the American League by a right-handed hitter. He won seven Gold Gloves behind the plate and led the league in games played at catcher and assists as a catcher six times each. Morris has increased his votes in each of the past five years, peaking in 2012 at 66.7 percent to finish second behind Barry Larkin. Parker was not only a feared hitter who won two batting titles, but he was also one of the top defensive outfielders in the game. He batted over .300 10 times and finished with a career average of .308. Paul Konerko A sold-out crowd cheers for Paul Konerko of the Chicago White Sox as he is honored during a pre-game ceremony. In the nine years prior to World War II, Travis had compiled a .327 average, topping .300 in eight of the nine seasons he played. Johnson played just 13 years, but topped 100 RBI eight times, 100 runs six times and 25 home runs six times. John was another compiler, but the fact that he was able to stick around long enough to compile those statistics is incredible in itself. He still holds the Reds' franchise records for most wins by a righty with 161, and his 579 games pitched ranked eighth in NL history when he retired in 1945 after a 15-year career. O'Doul is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and is credited with helping to popularize the sport in Japan in the 1930s. Groat won the 1960 batting title with a .325 average and was a five-time All-Star. And the adage seems to hold true since every player who has 3000 hits and has been eligible for the Hall of Fame has been elected (with the exception of Rafael Palmeiro who has been . The three-time 20-game winner finished his career with a 170-91 record for a .651 winning percentage, good for 27th all time. Allen played during the pitching-dominated 1960s and 1970s and still managed to top a 1.000 OPS three times. He had at least 190 strikeouts in a season 10 times and won 20 games twice. His 466 complete games ranks 11th all time. Lofton was a 6-time all-star and a 4-time gold glove award winner who finished his career with nearly 2500 hits, over 1500 runs scored and 622 stolen bases. Ryan was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999. As of this writing, Cabrera was also just one homer away from No. He played for five teams over 22 years and was a well-respected, professional hitter everywhere he went. Colavito was a great power hitter and run producer in the 1950s who received surprisingly little support in his Hall of Fame candidacy. He had more votes than players like Ralph Kiner, Chuck Klein, Lefty Grove and Lloyd Waner. If Wood didn't sustain an injury to the thumb on his pitching hand in 1913, he very well could have been mentioned along with Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson as the top pitchers of baseball's early years. Stephens led the AL in RBI twice and home runs once, but his production fell off considerably after the age of 29. He was a six-time All-Star and won 20 games three times. Reulbach led the league in winning percentage for three straight years from 1906 to 1908 when he compiled a record of 60-15 over the three-year period. Let's put Ichiro in the Hall of Fame. His career average of .320 ranks fifth. After serving in the military, Boyer made his debut at the age of 24 and instantly became an impact player for the Cardinals. This is the first story in a three-part series about . In 2012, his second year, Bagwell received 56 percent of the vote to finish in third place. He won the National League pitching triple crown in 1918 and finished with a career record of 178-137. Brown has a better winning percentage than Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton and Don Drysdale, and his strikeout-to-walk ratio is better than Ton Seaver, Warren Spahn, Nolan Ryan, Gibson and Carlton. Some argue that he is the best player not enshrined in Cooperstown, while his detractors say he didn't play long enough and his surly attitude turned off a lot of people. Good ole Donnie Baseball Don Mattingly hit .307 and is not in the Hall of Fame. Brown won 21 games in 1992 and had an ERA under 3.00 six times during the steroids era. The year before he left, Travis led the AL with 218 hits and batted .359, two points higher than Joe DiMaggio in his year of "The Streak." 300 career average used to be an important part of an Hall of fame career. He finished in the top five in Cy Young voting three times, made seven All-Star games and received MVP votes in four seasons. Hall of Fame Batting Register | Baseball-Reference.com Hall of Fame Batting Register Average Batting HOFer's stats include batters and player inductees only. Schilling should be in the Hall, but he. NL in hits in 1999 with 206. In addition to being a winning pitcher for the Yanks during eight regular seasons, he excelled in the World Series, accumulating a 4-1 record with a 2.60 ERA over seven starts. Suttles earned five All-Star nods as part of a 23-year Hall of Fame . He ranks higher than pitchers like Catfish Hunter, Don Drysdale and Jim Bunning in that category. Like Dale Murphy, he consistently gets dinged for having too short of a peak. Research is still ongoing and we'll continue to publish updates as more information becomes available. His numbers are at least equal to Hall of Fame peers Jim Rice and Andre Dawson, and his character on and off the field is exemplary. However, the high intensity took its toll physically on Martin, who only played over 100 games five times in his career. Baines was a pure hitter who would be a phenomenal candidate for the Hall of Compilers if there ever was such a thing. Murphy was hurt by a severe drop-off in production after the age of 31. He was up for Hall of Fame consideration in 2008, but he fell short of enshrinement once again. He went 208-126 with a 2.92 ERA and twice led the league in complete games, shutouts and saves. Damon is no longer on the writers Hall of Fame ballot, but his consistency and starring roles on both Red Sox and Yankees title teams might get him in one day. Lolich won three games in the series, out-dueling Bob Gibson during his signature season in Game 7 to win the series for the Tigers. He ranked fifth in all-time hits when he retired. He was a mainstay in the Cubs' rotation for 16 years and accumulated 201 wins in his career. Staub may have cost himself an enshrinement when he chose to return to the Mets to mentor young players in a part-time role rather than seeking full-time work elsewhere late in his career. Morris' case is buoyed by excellent performances in the 1984 and 1991 postseasons when he anchored the Tigers' and Twins' staffs to World Series titles in those respective years. He is second all time in saves with 424, the most ever by a lefty pitcher. His fiery attitude caused him to wear out his welcome with many clubs, and he ended up playing with five different teams over 18 years. He made seven All-Star games during his career. His best season on the Hall of Fame ballot came in 1960, when he received 45 Hall of Fame votes, a total higher than 27 future Hall of Famers. Some will be coming off this list soon. Despite the tragedy, Mays had a very productive 15-year career. McInnis was an excellent, fundamentally sound first baseman in the early part of the 20th century for the A's and Red Sox. During his time with the White Sox, Minoso was a seven-time All-Star who finished fourth in the MVP voting on four different occasions. From 1946 to 1950, he won 20 games four times, leading the league with 24 wins and 28 complete games in 1948. In an era dominated by the long ball, Grace was a consistent .300 hitter who played an outstanding defensive first base. Belle had three straight top-three finishes in the MVP voting, including a second-place finish in 1995 when he was far superior to that year's winner, Mo Vaughn. Playing in the infield with Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Johnny Bench, Concepcion was a nine-time All-Star who also won two Silver Slugger awards. Research by Baseball Almanac. It was one of the truly remarkable runs of success in the decade. Abreu is the perfect compliment to the talent on this roster, giving the Astros a right-handed bat that can slot in between two great left-handed hitters in Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker. However, he remarkably made it back, and he was better than before. If there was a Hall of Fame for baseball names, Shocker would be an unquestioned first-ballot entry. He received MVP votes in eight seasons, finishing in the top 10 in six of those years. HR Rank All Time. + - Indicates Hall of Famer. He was a two-time NLCS MVP. Bonds wouldve reached the 3,000 hit mark had a club offered him a contract for the 2008 season or if he hadnt walked a MLB-record 2,558 times. Career statistics/162: .306 BA, 7 HR, 79 RBI, 5 . His peak came in 1967 when he finished with 29 percent of the vote, ahead of 10 future Hall of Famers, including pitchers Hal Newhouser and Bob Lemon. Hernandez played first base with the range of a middle infielder. He was a seven-time All-Star. He was a key piece in four World Series titles for the Yankees, delivering numerous clutch hits along the way. All four won at least 20 games in 1971. Parrish was one of the keys to the Tigers' 1984 World Series team, finishing third in the AL with 33 home runs that year. McGriff was remarkably consistent, belting 30 home runs in a season 10 times during the steroid era without a whisper of accusation about him. McCarthy had 170 Win Shares but only 14.6 WAR, for a Hall of Fame Value of 228.4. Mays hit his 500th blast during a career-best 52-homer campaign for the Giants in 1965. By. He finished fourth in the MVP voting in 1977 and 1978 and received MVP votes in five other seasons. Over his 12-year career, his 162-game average season was 40 home runs, 130 RBI and a .295 average. Reaching 3,000 hits, in our opinion, is a benchmark of true greatness that few will ever achieve. Dunn finished his career with a lowly .234 batting average. In terms of overall productivity, the sweet spot for the average Hall of Famer is a WAR between 50 and 70. A career .303 hitter, Daubert accumulated 2,326 hits in his 15-year career and is the National League's all-time leader in sacrifice hits with 392. Arguably the greatest fielding pitcher of all time, Kaat won 16 Gold Gloves, the most at any position until he was topped by Greg Maddux, who won 18. The Hall of Fame case for Keith Hernandez starts with his brilliant glove-work at first base. Root's best year came in 1927 when he led the NL with 27 wins. He only led the league in saves four times in his 18-year career, and his 3.03 career ERA isn't sparkling for a closer. He led the AL in hits four times and won the 1959 batting title with a .353 average. Johnson's career numbers were hurt by a late start, as he didn't make his debut until he was 27 years old. Belle has a laundry list of reasons why this happened, so he has nobody to blame but himself, but there's no denying his ability as a player before his career was cut short by injuries. Torre will one day get into the Hall of Fame as a manager, but the chance also remains that he will be inducted as a player one day by the Veterans Committee. When Cone was on his game, there were few pitchers with better stuff during his era. For eight straight years he made the AL All-Star team and finished in the top 20 for AL MVP voting. He also was one of the first power-hitting leadoff hitters, setting a MLB record with 35 career leadoff homers, a record that has since been broken. The 3,000-hit club is the group of 33 batters who have collected 3,000 or more regular-season hits in their careers in Major League Baseball (MLB), achieving a milestone "long considered the greatest measure of superior bat handling" and often described as a guarantee of eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.. Cap Anson was the first to do so, although his precise career hit total is . He didn't top 100 strikeouts in any of his final 11 seasons. Blue burst onto the scene as a 21-year-old in 1971, his first full season in the majors. Considered one of the top dead-ball era players not in the Hall of Fame, Daubert was an excellent all-around players for the Brooklyn Superbas and Cincinnati Reds in the early 20th century. Allen was a feared slugger and clutch hitter whose .534 slugging percentage was the best of any non-Hall of Fame member until Albert Belle came along. For the kind of player Raines was, that should not keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Pierce is a tremendously underrated pitcher who hurled mostly for the White Sox over an 18-year, post-WWII career. There are a lot of players who are on the outside looking in, despite being superior to some players who are already enshrined. Notes: A minimum of 1,000 career games played and 1,000 career at-bats are needed to make this list, raw averages are presented to further clarify the one-thousand greatest career batting averages of all-time, and a bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season. Before a fine career as a manager, Kuenn was one of the top hitters in the majors during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the 1980 National League batting champion and is one of only 16 players since World War II who have played in four decades. 7) Ken Griffey Jr.: 630 500th HR: June 20, 2004 Beltran becomes eligible for the Hall in 2023, and his case will be among the most controversial in recent memory due to his involvement in the Astros sign-stealing saga. Since McCarthy was not BETTER than any other Hall of Famer, he also has a "zero" in front of his name. The general rule is that 3,000 career hits is an automatic ticket to induction in the Hall of Fame and that generally remains the case, though there are a handful still on the outside looking in due to situations of their own making. He had more than 300 strikeouts in a . He finished in the top 10 in the National League in batting eight times. Buffinton authored one of the most incomprehensible statistical seasons in baseball history in 1884. Nicknamed the "Louisville Slugger," Browning was the inspiration for naming the famous bat after he purchased bats from theHillerich & Bradsby Company. a . He led the league in hits, doubles and triples twice each and finished his career with 2,757 hits. The highest number of games he played in after the age of 29 was 109 in 1951. Claim to fame: Quietly, Oliver may have been one of the best hitters of the 1970s and '80s, amassing 2,743 hits and a .303 lifetime batting average, hitting above .300 eleven of his 18 seasons. Because of this and a quick downfall to his production after age 35, Hodges amassed only 1,921 hits. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. That can happen when you play during the same time as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, Roberto Clemente and Frank Robinson. However, as we'll see, he was an underrated performer as an offensive player. His vote total was better than 12 players who eventually would be enshrined, including legendary players like Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Lefty Grove and Gabby Hartnett. Just 16 hitters have a career .300 average with 10,000-plus PA; Ichiro stole 509 bases in his career. Reynolds got his start in the majors as a solid pitcher for the Indians in the 1940s. He led the National League in hits in both 1961 and 1963. From 1996-2006, through his age-31 season, Rolen produced 54.4 of his 69.9 career fWAR. He is also one of the few multiple MVP winners who has been left out of Cooperstown. Discussion of suicide or self-harm is not tolerated and will result in an immediate ban. That it took Votto, one of the best pure hitters of his era, 15 seasons to reach 2,000 hits came as a bit of a surprise to many baseball fans. When Smith retired, he was the game's all-time saves leader and topped the list in games finished. At the time of his retirement, he held the major league record for games played and was in the top 10 in RBI, doubles and extra-base hits. In fact, when Grich led the American League in home runs in 1981, he became the first second basemen to do so since Nap Lajoie in 1901. Hodges' case for the Hall of Fame is interesting because he is a player whose value went beyond the numbers he put up. Usually when you finish your career as the all-time leader in a major category, you are a lock for the Hall of Fame. Grace batted over .300 nine times and over.295 three more times. Here are the best Hall of Fame candidates at each position. Gonzalez was suspected of steroid abuse and was named in Jose Canseco's book Juiced. Ryan authored his sixth no-hitter in 1990 and followed with his seventh a year later at the age of 44. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. Root was allegedly the pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's "called shot," which often overshadows an excellent career. Strikeouts thrown by a pitcher in a career, 5,714, Nolan Ryan, 1966-93 . However, once Hershiser reached the age of 30, health issues set in and curtailed what could have been a Hall of Fame career. He was the 1978 NL MVP, won two World Series titles and received MVP votes in nine seasons, finishing in the top five of the voting five times. Oliver had perhaps his best year in 1982 when he led the National League in hits, doubles, runs batted in, and batting average, was an All Star, and finished third in Most Valuable Player voting. . He also held the record for most hits and doubles by a catcher with 2,472 and 483, respectively. He won three Gold Glove awards and is known for having one of the great outfield arms of all time. Everybody concentrates on Gooden's squandered talent, and rightly so. Overall, he received MVP votes in eightdifferentyears and won three Gold Gloves. Despite being just a part-time pitcher over his final seven seasons, Harder won 223 games in his career and is the only eligible player who has pitched at least 20 seasons for one club who is not in the Hall of Fame. He batted .370 in 1993 and hit an NL-best 47 homers and 150 RBI in 1996. He was the starting pitcher in the 1956 All-Star Game on a team featuring Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. His 383 sacrifice hits still remains third all time. Richardson played just 12 years in the major leagues, appearing in the World Series in seven of them. There are not a ton of pitchers in the Hall of Fame - the elections of Glavine and Maddux brings the total to 77 beginning with the inaugural class of 1936. His career average was .300 and he ranks as the sixth-best first baseman in Florida history in Baseball State by State. Some players are kept out because of theirtemperament, some didn't have a long enough peak and others are just totallyunderappreciated. Also of note here, because this is the era in which we live, the steroids issue must be addressed. Parker falls short of the magic numbers needed for induction, though. Thomas was the designated hitter in only 56.42 percent of the games he played in, while Molitor's percentage was even lower at 43.76. Ryne Sandberg : in his first year of eligibility in 2003 received 49.2% of the vote and gets enshrined in 2005 in his third year on the ballot receiving 76.2 . But when it came to hitting towering shots, no one was better than "Big Donkey." 1 1. Please check your email for a confirmation. Walker was a phenomenal all-around player, and for a five-year period during the peak of the steroid era, Walker had some of the best seasons the game had seen. Career: 24 years (1984-2007) Teams: Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Houston Astros Instead of talking about his incredible baseball accomplishments, Palmeiro's career is defined as being one of the poster boys for the steroid era. One of the great clutch hitters of his era, Martinez finished with a .312 career average and topped 500 doubles and 300 homers in his 18-year career. McNally was part of one of the great pitching staffs of all time along with Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson. Evans averaged just 18 home runs a season between 1976 and 1984. Tiant twice led the league with ERAs under 2.00, but he also had five years with an ERA over 4.00. Torre was a nine-time All-Star and the 1971 NL MVP after batting .363 with 230 hits and 137 RBI. Bartell received MVP votes in six seasons, finishing as high as sixth in 1937. Mullane was anambidextrous pitcher who compiled 284 wins from 1881 to 1894. 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