Quote: Gimme your top 5 guys that should be thrown out of the Hall.
I'd have to think about that.
As a caveat, since I think that there is more to a player than stats, I don't really have strong "he shouldn't be in" opinions on players I didn't see play.
Off the top of my head, in the last ~30 year of the writers the only one's that have bothered me are Hoyt Wilheim & Don Sutton. I wasn't a fan of Luis Aparicio's selection, but I never really watched him enough to have outrage at his selection.
I often raise an eyebrow at the selections that the veterans committee make, but most of them played before I was born. Of those that played that I have opinions about, Bill Mazeroski & Jim Bunning were certainly surprises. But, maybe their careers were over by the time I paid attention to them.
But, certainly on Sutton and Blyleven, I saw their careers. If my team was playing a must win game and you told me that other pitcher was Sutton or Blyleven, I wouldn't worry one bit.
Not like if it were Gibson or Marichal or Drysdale or Catfish, etc.
Hell Vida Blue or David Cone scare me way more than Don or Burt.
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