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Detroit Tigers: Four Biggest Hall of Fame Snubs

By Patrick Rocca

Mar 8, 2016; Lakeland, FL, USA; Umpires meet with managers before the game between the Detroit Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 8, 2016; Lakeland, FL, USA; Umpires meet with managers before the game between the Detroit Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Detroit Tigers have had many deserving players snubbed from Cooperstown. Detroit Jock City explores the four biggest snubs in Detroit Tigers history.

Mar 8, 2016; Lakeland, FL, USA; Umpires meet with managers before the game between the Detroit Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 8, 2016; Lakeland, FL, USA; Umpires meet with managers before the game between the Detroit Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports /

The BBWAA have repeatedly made boneheaded and controversial decisions regarding hall of fame and MVP voting over the years. From refusing to enshrine steroid era players, to repeatedly picking the wrong MVP, the BBWAA have been under scrutiny for many years now.

However, there seems to be little outrage towards their treatment of former Detroit Tigers players. Many Tigers greats have been excluded from the Hall of Fame, despite clearly having the statistics and achievements to not only warrant their entry, but guarantee it.

Using the the resources the Hall of Stats and Baseball Reference, we are going to explore just how egregious these exclusions actually are. I present to you, four Detroit Tigers that are statistically better than current Hall of Famers, but for some reason are not in Cooperstown.

Note: The Hall of Stats is a website that is dedicated to discovering which players deserve to be inducted into the hall of fame using an algorithm based on advanced statistics. A score of 100 denotes a player worthy of the hall of fame.

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