The index is a guide. It was never meant to be a hard and fast rule as to who gets in and who doesn’t. A large part of the problem is that perception plays a big role in these things and personalities get involved. Today we look at two players that aren’t likely to get in for two very different reasons. For some, those are good reasons. For others they aren’t.
Jeff Kent still holds a lot of the offensive records for second basemen. That is particularly true when we consider the counting numbers. However, there are questions about defensive value and there are questions about character.