After the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot results were announced, I thought it would be cool to take a historical look at those players who were on the standard BBWAA ballot at least once, and didn’t receive even one vote. I presented the respective “career category leaders” within that group.
Then we did this again with the 2013 ballot. So now that the 2014 voting is completed, we have six new “one and done” names to consider (Richie Sexson, Sean Casey, Todd Jones, Paul LoDuca, Mike Timlin and Ray Durham). So here are the updated leaders:
Years played: 21 - Frank Tanana, Danny Darwin, Ron Fairly
Games: 2,442 - Ron Fairly
At-bats: 8,044 - Ruben Sierra
Runs: 1,249 - Ray Durham (new leader)
Hits: 2,192 - Cecil Cooper
Homers: 355 - Greg Vaughn
RBI: 1,322 - Ruben Sierra
Stolen Bases: 620 - Otis Nixon
Walks: 1,263 - Ken Singleton
Batting Average: .302 - Sean Casey (new leader)
On-base Percentage: .388 - Ken Singleton
Slugging Percentage: .507 - Richie Sexson (new leader)
OPS: .870 - Ryan Klesko
OPS+: 132 - Ken Singleton
Wins: 240 - Frank Tanana
ERA (starter): 3.07 - Bob Veale
ERA+ (starter): 117 - Gary Nolan
H/9 (starter): 7.03 - Sam McDowell
H/9 (reliever): 6.99 - Mitch Williams
K/9 (starter): 8.86 - Sam McDowell
K/9 (reliever): 8.74 - Dan Plesac
WHIP (starter): 1.145 - Gary Nolan
WHIP (reliever): 1.193 - Eddie Fisher
Appearances: 1,178 - Mike Stanton
Games Started: 616 - Frank Tanana
Saves: 326 - Roberto Hernandez
Innings pitched: 4,188.1 - Frank Tanana
Strikeouts: 2,773 - Frank Tanana
WAR (position players): 59.8 - Jim Wynn
WAR (pitchers): 55 Frank Tanana
Here is the updated possible 25-man roster from this group, based on highest WARs for each position (with a couple of corrections based on recalculated WARs). Welcome to the team, Mr. Timlin and Mr. Durham. I’d put these guys up against some All-Star teams, wouldn’t you?
The saves leader has to be John Franco (424).
It would be, if he had not received a vote for the Hall.