The way Larry Walker's candidacy has developed is indicative of how much voters' decision-making has changed over the past decade. ShiDavidi trades his annual ballot deep dive for an analysis on the Canadian's chances of entering Cooperstown.
From there he climbed sharply to 54.6 per cent, a spike I can anecdotally attribute to the clearing of loaded ballots that often left voters picking their top-10 candidates, not all whom they deemed to be worthy of induction, and the changing of the electorate thanks to new eligibility rules.
The former is penalizing him for factors beyond his control, and the latter is penalizing him for playing the game hard and with an edge, both unfair from my vantage point. In terms of counting stats, Walker’s line of 383 home runs, 471 doubles and 2,160 hits with a .313 batting average, .400 on-base percentage and 230 stolen bases in 1,988 career games are competitive enough relative to other Hall of Fame outfielders, but there’s enough room for a critic to poke holes in the numbers.
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