Carlos Delgado may not have received the votes necessary to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, but he did receive a decent consolation prize, as he will be headlining the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary’s Ontario.
Delgado would play his first twelve seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays where he would make the American League All Star Team twice. In 2003, he would lead the league in Runs Batted In and OPS and would finish second in MVP voting. Accumulatively, Delgado would blast 336 Home Runs with a Slash Line of .282/.392/.556 and a bWAR of 36.7 as a Blue Jay.
Felipe Alou, a native of the Dominican Republic, joins Delgado, a Puerto Rican.
Alou’s contribution to Baseball in Canada was as the long time Manager of the Montreal Expos, a team he played 19 Games for in 1973. As the Expos Skipper, Alou would spend ten seasons there with a record of 691 and 717.
Two homegrown Canadian talents join the two Caribbean baseball stars.
From New Brunswick, former First Baseman/Outfielder/Designated Hitter, Matt Stairs will also be inducted. Stairs, who played for twelve teams over his nineteen year career, holds the career record for Pinch Hit Home Runs. In his career, Stairs would have 265 Home Runs with a 14.3 bWAR. Corey Koskie, a nine year MLB veteran from Manitoba was also selected. Koskie played most of his career with the Minnesota Twins and retired with a bWAR of 24.6. Reporter Bob Elliott was also chosen.
We would like to congratulate the next group of inductees to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
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