A long time the personal receiver for Greg Maddux in Atlanta, Pérez is a veteran defensive-oriented catcher with a good arm. He calls an excellent game and he blocks balls in the dirt very well. He is also good at going out to the mound and getting on his pitchers.
An aggressive hitter who hits the ball where it's pitched, Pérez is able to make decent contact and is hard to strikeout. He is not much of a power hitter, and he's been very tough against lefthanders thus far in his career. Versus righties, he is a little more prone to fanning, but he can still hit the ball with consistency. On the bases, he is a typical catcher; a runner who needs a hit-and-run or a bunt to get a jump on the next base.
In a ten-year career, Pérez is a .254 hitter with 38 home runs and 166 RBI in 548 games.
Baseball changed quite a bit in the nearly twenty years between the playing of these two games, and Euchner focuses on many of the changes.
Jennings is a player with a short actual career (he made a habit of putting himself in for a game or two occasional while managing, the same when he coached) but a very high peak.
He was an intense, steady, and excellent player, the kind of broad-based talent that often gets overlooked because they don't excel at any one skill, but rather do well at all of them: average, power, speed, defense all good.
Of the three active players, Frank Thomas and Edgar Martinez should be shoo-ins for the Hall, and Chipper Jones is in the process of building a resume worthy of such hallowed status.
According to Don Malcolm of the Big Bad Baseball fame in a post on Baseball Primer, Grove was 30-25 with an ERA of 3.82 as a starting pitcher vs. the Yankees, including 18-16, 4.34 with the A's and 12-9, 3.11 with the Red Sox.
According to Mike, Gil Hodges is the only player (other than those still on the ballot) who has received at least half of the votes and not been enshrined at a later date.
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