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Post by Ken C on Aug 8, 2023 9:30:33 GMT -5
As of August 7, 2023, there have been 20,459 baseball players to play in the MLB. This starts in 1876 when such things were tracked.
That's not even enough to fill the smallest capacity ballpark, which is Tropicana Field in St. Pete, Fla. Home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It only holds 25,000.
That's 147 years. It goes to show that you have to be an elite or special kind of talent to make it in the major leagues.
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Post by nugget on Aug 8, 2023 12:54:54 GMT -5
As of August 7, 2023, there have been 20,459 baseball players to play in the MLB. This starts in 1876 when such things were tracked.
That's not even enough to fill the smallest capacity ballpark, which is Tropicana Field in St. Pete, Fla. Home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It only holds 25,000.
That's 147 years. It goes to show that you have to be an elite or special kind of talent to make it in the major leagues.
Interesting, Ken. I always like learning such things. |
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Post by barkeep on Aug 8, 2023 14:10:33 GMT -5
As of August 7, 2023, there have been 20,459 baseball players to play in the MLB. This starts in 1876 when such things were tracked.
That's not even enough to fill the smallest capacity ballpark, which is Tropicana Field in St. Pete, Fla. Home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It only holds 25,000.
That's 147 years. It goes to show that you have to be an elite or special kind of talent to make it in the major leagues.
It is enough to fill up Madison Square Garden. And of that 20,459 there have only 268 players to get into the Hall Of Fame. |
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Post by Ken C on Aug 8, 2023 14:43:21 GMT -5
Isn't that amazing barkeep?
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Post by barkeep on Aug 8, 2023 17:53:21 GMT -5
And of those only 36 players received at least 90% of the Hall Of Fame vote. I call those 36 The No Doubt About It Players.
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Post by Ken C on Aug 9, 2023 7:31:13 GMT -5
There's been some "suspect" winners the past 20 years in my opinion.
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Post by barkeep on Aug 9, 2023 15:10:13 GMT -5
Ken. I don't know about Phil Rizzuto. A life tine batting average of .273 is good. But not Hall Of Fame numbers. If he had a life time batting average of .273 with the Cleveland Indians he would not have ever been elected.
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Post by Ken C on Aug 10, 2023 7:37:11 GMT -5
I can think of some very good players such as Ron Santo, Tim Raines, Mike Mussina, Larry Walker, etc. who did not have the best numbers, if that is the qualifiers. I think some are "fan favorites" and with television/social media it weighs in these guys favor.
Raines is there because of his 900 stolen bases. Mussina never crossed the 300 win/300 K mark. Santo has more homers and RBI's than Dave Concepcion, but both are very even otherwise. Concepcion has more hits and was extremely important to the Big Red Machine. I think the Veteran's Committee will eventually get him in the Hall - same with Vada Pinson.
Larry Walker just does not have HoF numbers in my opinion.
I could go on I suppose. Cobb, Ruth, Johnson, Mathewson really set the bar high back in their day.
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Post by barkeep on Aug 10, 2023 16:07:20 GMT -5
I could go on I suppose. Cobb, Ruth, Johnson, Mathewson really set the bar high back in there day. Baseball was a very different game back then. Remember in those days the Major Leagues had only the best White players in the World but not all the best players in the World. If Baseball had been opened to all back then, I think two thirds of the players who played back then would not have been there. The Men that you mentioned would have played. But their numbers would have been very different. |
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