Originally Posted by
ChuckyTheGoat
I love Keith as a player. Two WS titles on different teams. He also came up HUGE with the Key Game 7 hits in both series.
If one way to qualify for HOF is "best player at your position over an extended period of time"...he did that. Over an 11-year period, he won 11 consecutive NL 1b gold gloves. And he didn't just win them, he deserved them.
Offensively, he was good. It's just that he did a lot of it via Walks and Doubles, not so much on Home Runs.
I really think the writers don't have a good gauge on his defensive prowess. If you watched the games back then, he killed the opponent bunting game by reading the game so well. I don't think the defensive metrics capture his true defensive value, which was immense.