We at Sox and Dawgs decided to start taking a look at some current players to see if they could gain election to Hall of Fame. In this series, we’re going to look at players who are currently active who have reasonable consideration to be a Hall nominee. This isn’t a science and you may have others on your list that we left off. There are some fine young players who are just starting their careers who may have Hall potential but for arguments sake these are guys who have been around a bit or those few outstanding younger players who just jump off the page at you.
In this series we’re going to look at the players by position as compared to Hall members of that position. The position is the primary position of the player through his career. If he played a significant amount of games in another position that will be listed next to his name. Some of the guys we will look at over time have endured position changes, but because the majority of their career was at one position over another we have chosen that as the position in which they are being considered.
The second category we will look at is starting pitchers. Because there are so many starting pitchers in the Hall we are going to use only a few of the later editions to compare our picks to. I’ll do this in the interest of research time, not boring you to death with the numbers and to compare today’s players with players closer to their era.
The Baseball Hall of Fame members we will use are:

Tom Seaver 20 yrs, 311-205, 2.86 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 3640 K, 61 shut outs, 12 all-star teams, ROY, 3 Cy Youngs, wins leader 3x, ERA leader 3x, strike out leader 5x, 3 post season wins
Nolan Ryan 27 yrs, 324-292, 3.19 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 5714 K, 13 shut outs, 8 all-star teams, ERA leader 2x, strike out leader 11x, 2 post season wins
Jim Palmer 19 yrs, 268-152, 2.86 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 2212 K, 53 shut outs, 6 all-star teams, 3 Cy Youngs, wins leader 3x, ERA leader 2x, 8 post season wins
Bob Gibson 17 yrs, 251-174, 2.91 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 3117 K, 56 shut outs, 8 all-star teams, 2 Cy Youngs, 1 MVP, 2 World Series MVPs, 9 Gold Gloves, ERA leader 1x, win leader 1x, strike out leader 1x, 7 post season wins
Sandy Koufax 12 yrs, 165-87, 2.76 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 2396 K, 40 shut outs, 6 all-star teams, 3 Cy Youngs, 1 MVP, 1 World Series MVP, ERA leader 5x, wins leader 3x, strike out leader 4x, 4 post season wins
Steve Carlton 24 yrs, 329-244, 3.22 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 4136 K, 55 shut outs, 10 all-star teams, 4 Cy Youngs, 1 Gold Glove, ERA leader 1x, wins leader 4x, strike out leader 5x, 6 post season wins
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