(12-28-2016, 11:34 PM)oneofakindcards Wrote: I don't see how Kirby Puckett was enshrined and Mattingly wasn't. Puckett never was as dominant as Mattingly was.
I'll agree that Puckett wasn't considered "dominant", but his 2 WS titles and his defense is really what got him in. And one other thing that I think helps or hurts a players chance is how they interact with the media. I guarantee that there are some voters who hold grudges based on how they were treated by the player. Right, wrong, or indifferent it happens. Puckett was a charmer, no doubt about it. Was he an upstanding citizen? We came to find out later that he was not, however the perception of the media made him out to be perfect.