Should Steve Garvey be elected to the Hall of Fame?

nope, not good enough.

baseball-reference.com has a feature that compares the offensive stats of players. The players with career stats most comparable to Garvey are: Al Oliver, John Olerud, Ruben Sierra, Bill Buckner, and Mickey Vernon. All of these are fine players who had long productive careers but none are HOFers. Only HOFer Orlando Cepeda shows up on the top 10 comparables, and the Baby Bull is one of the weaker members.

Another thing this site offers are 4 types of HOF statistical measures based on Bill James sabermetric writings. Garvey does score high on some of these, because of his impressive post-season and All-Star game performances.

Garvey was probably the best 1st baseman in baseball for about 5 years in the 70's. Garvey won an MVP in 1974, but I argue strongly that Michael Jack Schmidt deserved it.

Overall, I would have to say that Garvey was an excellent player who falls just short of the HOF. (He and Don Mattingly have roughly the same argument for and against the HOF.) In 2007, Gwynn and Ripken are most likely to get in.

He was part of a very good infield. Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey. Steve Garvey was a good player, but he wasn't a great one.

BA-294 OB%-329 SLG-446 H-2599 HR-272 R-1143 RBI-1308

Those are not HOF numbers. The HOF already has players who should not be there. IMHO the HOF should be for the greats of the game. Those players who dominated an era not the good or even very good player.

No. He was a very good player on some very good Dodger teams. But Hall of Fame, no.

Garvey has flawed statistics. It will be hard for him to get in.

Yes ...........Steve Garvey should have a place in the HOF .

Pete Rose should make his way in there as well !

Cheers !

Yes. I also believe Pete Rose should be inducted as well; he's done far enough time from baseball for his mistakes, as compared to some offenses made today by MLB players who either get a easily payable fine or temporary suspension.

No, who next, Mickey Mouse?