I'm happy for Andruw Jones. Loved watching him when I grew up. I was also shocked to learn just how underrepresented players who played the majority of their games at Center Field were in the hall of fame. I think 24 CFs in the hall of fame (but if you boil it down to where the majority of their games played or stats were accrued it's fewer), and only 2 debuted in the MLB after 1952... That's insane, so it's probably overdue in Jones and Beltran to make it.
Edit: worth adding that Kenny Lofton not being in the hall of fame is a tragedy.
I'm happy for Andruw Jones. Loved watching him when I grew up. I was also shocked to learn just how underrepresented players who played the majority of their games at Center Field were in the hall of fame. I think 24 CFs in the hall of fame (but if you boil it down to where the majority of their games played or stats were accrued it's fewer), and only 2 debuted in the MLB after 1952... That's insane, so it's probably overdue in Jones and Beltran to make it.
Edit: worth adding that Kenny Lofton not being in the hall of fame is a tragedy.