Comments on: My HOF deliberations: Fred McGriff http://baybridgebaseball.com/2011/12/my-hof-deliberations-fred-mcgriff/ An A's-Giants blog Sat, 18 May 2013 11:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jason Collette http://baybridgebaseball.com/2011/12/my-hof-deliberations-fred-mcgriff/comment-page-1/#comment-4401 Jason Collette Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:16:06 +0000 http://baybridgebaseball.com/?p=2790#comment-4401 First off, thanks for sharing your thought process. This is the most desirable part of an otherwise frustrating process for fans of the game such as myself. Is it really fair to consider Thomas a first baseman in this argument? He ceased being an everyday first baseman after the 1996 season meaning the last 12 seasons of his career were done as a DH. McGriff DH'd one season over 18 games and that was his first season in the league while Upshaw was playing 1st. You mention discounting points on PEDs; I believe McGriff should get a few bonus points for doing what he did while playing in the field for 2104 of the 2239 games in his career. Throw Thomas off and give McGriff a few points and there's an argument that he was a top five guy at his position during his career. Thome belongs there because he played 130+ games at first base as late as 2004 before moving to DH over the past six seasons. First off, thanks for sharing your thought process. This is the most desirable part of an otherwise frustrating process for fans of the game such as myself.

Is it really fair to consider Thomas a first baseman in this argument? He ceased being an everyday first baseman after the 1996 season meaning the last 12 seasons of his career were done as a DH. McGriff DH’d one season over 18 games and that was his first season in the league while Upshaw was playing 1st. You mention discounting points on PEDs; I believe McGriff should get a few bonus points for doing what he did while playing in the field for 2104 of the 2239 games in his career.

Throw Thomas off and give McGriff a few points and there’s an argument that he was a top five guy at his position during his career.

Thome belongs there because he played 130+ games at first base as late as 2004 before moving to DH over the past six seasons.

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