Will Jim Edmonds make the Hall of Fame? A lot of people call him the greatest centerfielder of all time?

Question

I wouldn't disagree with that at all. I have viewed so many of his spectacular catches in centerfield on youtube and espn. In 15 seasons, the Cardinals CF has hit: 1,790 hits, 394 DB's, 360 HR's, 1,111 RBI's and .287 BA. He has won 8 gold gloves in CF and a WS title in 2006. He is 37 now, if he plays another 3 or 4 years, he could wind up with 2,300 hits, 450 HR's and 1,400 RBI's which would put his numbers near Hall of Fame range. Is he in? yes or no?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Edmonds

Watch this catch he made with the Angels from 1997. It is better than the Willie Mays catch. This is probably the greatest catch of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIyd-hxyJI

I have heard people say that about him. I am in Seattle, WA, so I'm not even a Cards fan, M's here. I have heard people say he's the greatest CF of all-time, on ESPN, Best Damn Sports show, etc. I wouldn't make that up.

Answer 1

I am a Cards fan,, and yes I think Jim Edmonds will be a hall of famer. I watch baseball every season, and watch all the teams I can. I personally think he is the best center fielder I have ever seen in baseball. I think he has a gift that a lot of outfielders don't. He seems to have the ability to know where the ball is going to be when its hit. The catches he makes each season makes watching very entertaining, whether the Cards win or lose.

Answer 2

via maximum measures, Edmonds grow to be a greater powerful participant than the two Jim Rice or Andre Dawson, who've the two been recently enshrined in Cooperstown. With that familiar Edmonds ought to at last get in. Edmonds' 132 OPS+ is spectacular for a center fielder, and besides the reality that Edmonds entire of 390 homestead runs does no longer provoke if he have been a prevalent baseman or a corner outfielder, for a center fielder that's an spectacular entire. Throw interior the 8 Gold Gloves and the limitless spotlight reel catches and Edmonds additionally stands proud for his protection. cutting-area statistical measures, which you haven't any longer suggested, propose that Jim Edmonds is the seventh superb center Fielder in huge League history. In Wins Above replace, as an occasion, Edmonds ranks right now between Ken Griffey Jr. and Billy Hamilton between center fielders all time. I assume Griffey will make the hall of acceptance and Hamilton is already in, so Edmonds sounds like a probable candidate to connect them.

Answer 3

He's a short list of better defensive players at center than Edmonds: Tris Speaker, Richie Ashburn, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Kirby Puckett, Ken Griffey Jr., Torii Hunter, Andruw Jones...
Then throw in that he has never led the league in any hitting category of any kind.
Then check similarity scores and see that he most resembles guys like J.D. Drew, Tim Salmon, Dick Allen, and Ellis Burks.
He's had a fine career.
But while it is possible people have called him the greatest of all time, that's on par with people saying that Spam is the greatest meat of all time or that Jim Nabors is the greatest singer of all time.

In other words, they might have said it, but it is a ludicrous statement not borne out by facts or reality.

Answer 4

Edmonds is a very good hitter and a very good center fielder who has made some spectacular catches. But anyone who thinks he belongs in the Hall of Fame is overestimating him. And anyone who says he's the best center fielder of all time needs to have his head examined. And as that other Cardinal legend, Dizzy Dean, would say, they won't find anything.

Terry Moore. Curt Flood. Willie McGee. That's three center fielders better than Edmonds. From the Cardinals. And none of them is in the Hall of Fame. (Though Flood would have been had he not taken his stand, but that's something that had to happen.)

Answer 5

This is ridiculous. No, he's not going to get a sniff of the Hall. And to call him the greatest CF of all time is a joke. We can start with Willie Mays and go from there. Learn your baseball history. I've always thought he held up on balls so he can make those over the shoulder catches.

Answer 6

First of all, if you think he's going to play as a productive player for another 3 or 4 years you haven't been paying much attention to his fragile body.

That being said: No. He played in one of the biggest hitting eras in baseball history and he's compiled under 2,000 hits and 1,100 rbi's. He doesn't even belong in the HOF discussion. Being an excellent (and flashy) fielder is nice, but hardly enough.

Answer 7

He'll being in the Hall of Fame, But he's not the Greatest Center fielder ever that title So to the SAY HEY KID Willie Mays.

Answer 8

Who calls him that besides his mommy?

Mays & Dimaggio fielded the same balls but were so much better because they got great jumps and didn't have to dive and slide to make the catch. They made it look easy>

As far as that catch,IMO Mays" catch was better. First, he made it in the Polo Grounds which was a HUGE park. Second, Mays got the ball back to the infield so no one advanced. Third, see above.

But that is an awesome catch!! Can't deny that

Answer 9

He should have enough support to hang around on the ballet for a few years.
I think he is too many very good years away to make a serious run. I don't think he is seriously considered the greatest center fielder of his generation by many.
No MVPs and no headline numbers will always make it difficult. He looks consistently good, not all-time great, to me.

Answer 10

No one outside of St. Louis has ever called Jim Edmonds "the greatest centerfielder of all time"

Not Even Close

Maybe he gets into the Hall if he can make it to 2000 hits. He's got a long way to go.