Will Bernie Williams make it into the Hall of Fame? Why or why not?

Question

Be original - "Yankees suck, etc." is overused and not answer. Rate the player on his merits.

Answer 1

Being a Yankee fan or not shouldn't matter in the evaluation of Bernie Williams. He is a 5 time All-Star and 4 time Gold-Glover (to the one that said he is an average fielder, do some research).

His career average (all stats pre-2006 season) is .298, he has well over a hit/game played (2218/1945), which is more then can be said for HOF'rs Ozzie Smith and Bill Mazeroski. He has 1301 runs, 1196 RBI's, and 275 HR's.
Even more impressive are his post-season stats. He has 22 HR's, 83 runs and 80 RBI's, all of which are post season records.

In the 2nd website listed below, he is listed as having a HOF Monitor rating of 133. Anything over 100 is considered HOF worthy. The 1st website descibes rating systems used for determining quality of player, HOF worthiness.

While no one is going to mistake Bernie Williams for Willie Mays, he does deserve to be in the HOF for his regular and post-season play, especially if Ozzie Smith (career .262 hitter) and Bill Mazeroski (.260) are HOF worthy.

Answer 2

Even though I am a Yankee fan, I can not honestly say that Bernie is NOT Hall of Fame material. While he has been a great outfielder and has won several World Series, he was more of a good player on a fantastic team. Not only was he not a top five outfielder in the game, he was not even a top five player on his own team. Let's look at some of his greatest accomplishments with the proper context: his five all-star games are more of a result of playing on the best team in the league in the huge market of New York, his "good defense" mostly meant his good outfield range (which he did have and needed to play the spacious center in Yankee Stadium) but he had a very weak arm, and his postseason numbers (although I would say would give him the best chance for him to make the HOF) are more due to a great Yankee lineup (shown by only winning one postseason MVP award despite putting up great numbers---that one MVP was in the ALCS which is nowhere near in value of a World Series MVP). Then you also see he only has about 2,300 hits and a little over 275 HR's, which are pretty miniscule even in the pre-steroid era (which he does not play in). Even with his high career batting average (near .300), he only has two 200 hit seasons. While he is a nice, consistent player, he simply is not HOF worthy.

Answer 3

OH PLEASE. I'm sure this has been said already but if Donnie Baseball ain't gettin' in (and he ain't) Williams stands no chance. By the standards of the day he was not especially a power hitter. His current career numbers compare very closely with players like Cecil Cooper who you certainly haven't heard mentioned as a Hall candidate lately. If he puts together a couple more seasons of decent production (A BIG if) he may wind up in Al Oliver, Vada Pinson Bill Buckener, Steve Garvey territory. Of which only Garvey has merited even more than casual consideration and he's not in either despite, like Williams, playing on some Powerhouse teams and acquitting himself VERY well in the post season! So sorry, no no weekend for Bernie at Cooperstown.

Answer 4

To be quite honest, it's a crab shoot. Bernie has great things about him, his rankings on the most successful franchise in baseball history, his batting average is equal to Mickey Mantles. I think he could, but he is not a GREAT power hitter, even when he was in his prime. I think that if Phil Rizzuto made the Hall of Fame, Bernie Williams should, but with that argument, the Hall of Fame will have about 1,000 players in it.

Answer 5

Gotta agree with the other posters. Bernie is a good player, and a class person, but a Hall of Famer...no. He has contributed about as much as Jorge Posada during the last decade, good team contributions and leadership, but no HOF. And btw Yankee fans, get off the Thurman Munson HOF bandwagon. He was a good player who was starting to become a great one when his life was tragically ended, but based on his body of work up to that point, he doesn't deserve to get in.

Answer 6

Bernie was a very good player but not a great player. No Hall of Fame in his future.

Answer 7

He won't. The writers will look seriously at him because of all the championships but Bernie simply does not have Hall of Fame stats, other than being one of only several $100 million players.

Answer 8

The first time I saw Bernie Williams , I said I like this guy. Good player.

He should be in the Hall of Fame.

BTW I am a die hard Red Sox Fan. But I recognize talent when I see it

Answer 9

No.

Bernie Williams, while he has four World Series rings and was a staple in the Yankees organization since the beginning of his career, will not make it to the Hall of Fame.

While his .297 career batting average is impressive, it's the only stat of his that is impressive for a center fielder. He has averaged only 23 HRs and 12 SBs annually for the Yankees. On top of that, even though his contact hitting was his best attribute, he only won one batting title, back in '98.

Plain and simple, he hasn't put up the numbers or made the impact on baseball as other notable center fielders like Johnny Damon, Jim Edmonds, and Ken Griffey Jr.

Answer 10

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