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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 11/11/25
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AvatarJay Jaffe
1:45
It's way too early to judge that.
1:46
I think it may very well end up a positive and it was probably the best thing. But it's the pirates, what baseline are we measuring against anyway?
Mike Trout Mask Replica
1:47
Jay- Lou Whitaker (deservedly!) gets the most attention for Mid-Late '80's Tigers that merit Hall consideration...but what about Darrell Evans? He was probably undervalued during his playing time for being an OBP-forward hitter, who did not have a high batting average. But over 400 homers, a .360 career OBP and 120 wrc+, with some really big seasons in his prime as a 3B suggests someone who should get a closer look, no?
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:49
Evans has a JAWS of 48.0, which is respectable but just 22nd among 3B, with Nettles, Boyer, Bell, Bando, Machado, Ramirez, Arenado, and Longoria all ahead of him in both carer and pea WAR, and above 50.0 JAWS. I can construct stronger arguments for all of them than Evans at this point.
Len Lumbers
1:50
The current Era Comm iteration seems to be the best-engineered version of itself yet - as several writers have intimated this month, it’s arrived at a point where it can not only dispense with undesirables in as little as three cycles, it can also funnel votes with at least some measure of certainty. Hmm. D’you think the current set of rules might only exist long enough to get past the PED hump? To borrow Tango’s line about the oversight committee - useful in theory; in practice its pace of deliberation is problematic (posthumous recognition [Allen], a lost race against time [Parker], or significantly advanced age [Kaat]) - it’ll never get it all right, it’ll just fix some of the blemishes.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:51
I think that's what the Hall hopes. the reality is that based on recent history the rules might end up changing before the permanent ineligibility goes into effect.
1:52
ok folks, that's it from me for this week! Thanks for stopping by. Tip your bartenders and waitstaff, stay hydrated, and we'll try to do this again next week.
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