Which Baseball Hall of Famers are overrated? Here's our team

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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/baseball-hall-famers-overrated-team-article-1.2022847

Which Baseball Hall of Famers are overrated? Here's our team
With the news that MLB's historian calls Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio 'overrated' News expert looks at players in Hall of Fame that actually shouldn't be.
BY Joe Belock
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 3:01 AM

 The Baseball Hall of Fame is the ultimate argument starter, and Monday marked a good time to play ball with this debate once again with the release of this year’s ballot as well as the rise of the disturbing notion that Joe DiMaggio, thanks to sabermetrics, is overrated. This Joe D thing has prompted a look at others already in.

If DiMaggio is overrated, what other immortals might be simply mortal after all?

So here is our All-Overrated Hall of Famer team. It’s easy to pick apart the old Veterans Committee mistakes — there are a ton. Once you clear those guys out, position by position, you’d see the Baseball Writers Association of America, of which I am not a member, has done an excellent job despite cries that the voting system is broken every time they pitch a shutout.

FIRST BASE
Tony Perez

The Veterans Committee has watered down this position with a guy from a poem (Frank Chance) and a guy with just a Hall of Fame nickname (High Pockets Kelly). So what is this key cog in the Big Red Machine doing here? Seven-time All-Star, seven 100-RBI seasons. Well, his career tailed off in a hurry, and he does not measure up to others who got the BBWAA nod (Gehrig, McCovey, Banks etc.).


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[rangerrebew]

Obama at starting pitcher was way overrated.

[Scottftlc]

Obama at starting pitcher was way overrated.

Obama as ballgirl is over-rated.

[jmyrlefuller]

“Overrated?” This is a hall of fame, not a hall of statistical excellence. It's OK to be overrated in a hall of fame. They were famous beyond what their stats should suggest.

Of course, as long as Pete Rose is still banned from the Hall, it means nothing either way.