By Christmas 2015, the Hall of Fame will have voted on the class of 2016, including St. Louis Cardinals’ former center fielder Jim Edmonds. I am biased towards Jimmy Baseball getting into the HOF, so I felt the need to test my viewpoint. I needed to measure his history more objectively to understand the level of credibility of my claim. With no intent to perform advanced measures and to get more of an old-school feel, I pulled up Baseball Almanac’s stats for center fielders, slapped it into a spreadsheet, and added Edmonds’ stats from Fangraphs.
St. Louis Cardinals: Jim Edmonds and the Hall of Fame case
