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Originally Posted by TotalEnd98
Not exactly the best comparison. Bert Blyleven is not in the Hall because, apparently, the voters are the only people who don't think he belongs.
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Well, that's part of the problem with tossing around complex metrics like WARP3. Sportswriters don't go by WARP3, they go by fame. It is the Hall of Fame, after all. At this point, Moose's HOF Monitor score - a metric designed by Bill James to grade exactly how sportswriters over time have picked guys for the Hall, Moose is a 101. That's right on the bubble. Most guys at that level get in, but...
Actually, reviewing this, the only pitchers with more HOF points than Moose who aren't in there already are 19th century players few people outside of sabremetricians have heard of. I'm going to stand corrected on this one. He doesn't *feel* like a Hall of Famer, but that may be as much due to the era watering down his stats (and individual performances, because stats of course are just a compilation of performances) as anything else.