Todd Helton and the Hall of Fame
Jeff J. Snider Sports
My friend Brian and I like to try to stump each other with baseball trivia questions, so we email back and forth sometimes. Today’s question from Brian was this:
If Todd Helton hits 29 more homers in his career and keep his career batting average over .330 (currently .337), he will become only the seventh player with 300 home runs and a .330 batting average. Name the other six. I will give the answer at the end of this post, but what I want to talk about is what Brian said about Helton as a sidenote:
NOTE: Helton will almost assuredly hit 59 homers before his career is over, putting him over the 330 mark. If he can maintain his batting average over .330 (not such a certainty), he would be the 5th member of the “330 Club (330 homers and .330 career average). If he can accomplish this feat (or even be close to it), I think he deserves to go straight to the Cooperstown, Coors Field or no Coors Field. I don’t care what ballpark you play your home games in, but 330 home runs combined with a .330 average should get you to the Hall of Fame.
This got me thinking about Helton’s Hall of Fame credentials, and I thought I’d put my thoughts here.
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8 comments January 16th, 2006 at 02:43pm