Andruw Jones to the Atlanta Braves HOF
Feb 24, 2016
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The Atlanta Braves have announced that Andruw Jones and John Schuerholz will be inducted into their franchise’s Hall of Fame this year.
The two new inductees will receive this honor in a pregame ceremony on August 19, prior to their home game against the Washington Nationals. This brings the total number of inductees to the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame to thirty.
Jones debuted at age 19 for Atlanta and would spend twelve years with the Braves. Over that period, the Outfielder would make five All Star Games and earn ten consecutive Gold Gloves. Jones was a very good hitter for the Braves accumulating 1,683 Hits, 368 Home Runs with 1,117 RBIs and 138 Stolen Bases. He would win the National League Home Run Title in 2005 and had a bWAR of Atlanta of 61.0. He is eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018.
John Schuerholz has been the team President for the last 26 years, and under his watch the organization won fourteen division five World Series.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the two newest members of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame.
The two new inductees will receive this honor in a pregame ceremony on August 19, prior to their home game against the Washington Nationals. This brings the total number of inductees to the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame to thirty.
Jones debuted at age 19 for Atlanta and would spend twelve years with the Braves. Over that period, the Outfielder would make five All Star Games and earn ten consecutive Gold Gloves. Jones was a very good hitter for the Braves accumulating 1,683 Hits, 368 Home Runs with 1,117 RBIs and 138 Stolen Bases. He would win the National League Home Run Title in 2005 and had a bWAR of Atlanta of 61.0. He is eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018.
John Schuerholz has been the team President for the last 26 years, and under his watch the organization won fourteen division five World Series.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the two newest members of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame.
BASEBALL HALL OF FAME: UPCOMING BORDERLINE CANDIDATES, PART 1
Dec 18, 2014
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DDT's Pop Flies
You know how hard it is to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame? In 2013, with a ballot brimming with qualified candidates, not one player received the 75 percent of the votes needed for admission. (I identified 14 likely Hall of Famers on the 2013 ballot.)
Granted, 2013 was the first year of eligibility for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, both poster boys for performance-enhancing drugs (PED), bringing to a head the contentious debate about "cheaters" and their admission into the Hall. But there were certainly several "clean" players on that ballot, and a few of those, such as 3000-hit-club member Craig Biggio, would have been uncontroversial picks in any previous year.
And although 2014 saw the election of three players—Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and Frank Thomas—it was merely the tip of a talent-heavy iceberg (I identified 18 likely Hall of Famers for that ballot), while providing a burn to Biggio yet again as not only did he miss election by one vote (he garnered 74.8 percent of the vote), but three first-time candidates leapfrogged him into Cooperstown.
Granted, 2013 was the first year of eligibility for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, both poster boys for performance-enhancing drugs (PED), bringing to a head the contentious debate about "cheaters" and their admission into the Hall. But there were certainly several "clean" players on that ballot, and a few of those, such as 3000-hit-club member Craig Biggio, would have been uncontroversial picks in any previous year.
And although 2014 saw the election of three players—Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and Frank Thomas—it was merely the tip of a talent-heavy iceberg (I identified 18 likely Hall of Famers for that ballot), while providing a burn to Biggio yet again as not only did he miss election by one vote (he garnered 74.8 percent of the vote), but three first-time candidates leapfrogged him into Cooperstown.
22. Andruw Jones
Sep 29, 2014
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Baseball
Although Andruw Jones was once classified as a defensive specialist, it is one-dimensional to think of him only that way. Granted, Jones captured ten straight Gold Glove Awards and also led the National League in Defensive bWAR four times and is second all-time in Total Zone Runs with six straight seasons (1997-03), but he also had an offensive acumen that has to be respected, which included 434 career Home Runs, a Home Run and RBI Title in 2005, which certainly pushed up his career bWAR of 62.8, a number that is not far off the Cooperstown threshold.