The Big Cat played 19 years in the majors, from 1985-2004 and had 2,333 career hits, 399 HR's, 1,425 RBI's and .288 BA. Even though he played during the steroid era, I don't think their were ever any allegations against him that he used. Those are pretty hefty numbers and he pretty much played his entire career at first base. He was a 5 time all star, 2 time gold glove winner and won the NL batting title in 1993, posting a .370 BA. Pretty good numbers for a naturally big guy, listed at 6' 3" 245#, but probably more like 265#. Galarraga had around 9 dominating years between 1993-2001. I think he probably won't get in for a long time. Does anyone think Dave Kingman will ever get in? Kingman played 16 seasons from 1971-1986 and was a dominant slugger, hitting, 442 HR's, 1,210 RBI's, 1,575 hits, but a poor BA at .236. I think that low BA is keeping him out.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/galaran01.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Galarraga
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2007-08-11
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