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Message: [QUOTE="Tenspro2002, post: 5015275, member: 889"] It will actually be interesting how baseball HOF cases are presented, especially for pitchers with counting numbers like wins being devalued. The case is less straightforward than "300 wins, 3000 strikeouts." Rate stats matter more -- ERA, WHIP, FIP, K/9 -- but then you have to make an argument about "an impressive rate, for a sufficiently long time" in a way that was easier when you could just use counting stats. How do you quantify "hits/runs denied"? I suppose pitching WAR is supposed to do that, but that's also harder to argue about than counting stats. [/QUOTE]