# Baseball HOF - Current Players

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-hof-current-players/455112>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 2, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-hof-current-players/455112 "2008-07-02T22:50:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-hof-current-players/455112/81 "2008-07-04T17:29:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Jas09]  
One name that hasn’t been listed (not even in post #3!) is Jim Edmonds. He probably fell off too fast to build up the counting stats necessary, but he’s closer than a lot of people assume, especially when you factor in the defense and the position he played. More info here:

[http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4999](http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4999)

Unfortunately for him his 2007 was awful, and this year has not been better. He’ll need a major resurgence with Cubs (God, forbid…) to get more than passing mention and first-ballot induction into the “Hall of Very Good”.  
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Already happening-.294/.391/.587 in 130 PAs with the Cubs so far.

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-hof-current-players/455112/82 "2008-07-04T18:29:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Omniscient]  
Sosa hit a bunch of homers and got muscles, that’s pretty much it.  
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Lest we forget, even if Sammy’s muscles weren’t juiced, his bat certainly was.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-hof-current-players/455112/83 "2008-07-04T19:47:05Z")

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[QUOTE=zamboniracer]  
Lest we forget, even if Sammy’s muscles weren’t juiced, his bat certainly was.  
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Corked bats do not give a batter more power and a Mythbusters test showed they can actually make the ball travel a shorter distance.

> **[Corked bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corked_bat)**
>
> In baseball, a corked bat is a specially modified baseball bat that has been filled with cork or other less dense substances to make the bat lighter. A lighter bat gives a hitter a quicker swing and may improve the hitter's timing. Despite popular belief that corking a bat creates a "trampoline effect" which causes a batted ball to travel farther, physics researchers and the Mythbusters have shown this is not the case. In Major League Baseball, modifying a bat with foreign substan To cork a bat,...

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