18 minutes ago, Milkman delivers said:

I’m far from an analytics guy, but I would think WAR would almost be perfect in deciding HOF status. It literally tells you how many wins an individual player adds to a team.

And to your point about stolen bases no longer being a factor, one of the biggest stories is about a guy becoming a 50/50 player. One of those 50s represents stolen bases.

Yeah but he's special. Who else is swiping bases? It was deemed too risky on the injury front and not that important to run scoring in the eyes of the stat people.

8 hours ago, Falstaff said:

Benintendi's splits for last 28 days:  .301/.372/.518 , ops .890 

His overall BA stinks but he's become an actual big league player. I won't mind him being our leadoff hitter next year although his arm is toast in LF.