Congratulations to Mike Piazza on making the Hall of Fame.
It was Mike’s great 2015 season that helped push him over the edge. While some thought he was a no doubt first ballot Hall of Famer (since while he was playing everyone called him a no doubt Hall of Famer), the brilliant baseball writers decided he had not been until now.
Clearly it was Mike’s great 2015 season that changed their minds. Whereas Mike had been a borderline candidate before, his newly added stats made it clear to the geniuses that run this thing that now Mike is a HOFer.
Sarcasm aside, I am happy for Mike, and pleased that he thinks of himself as a Met, even if in an honest moment we all know his Fame worthiness comes more from Los Angeles than what happened in Queens. Don’t get me wrong, he was solid in Queens, but he was something else in LA.
Now hopefully the Hall will consider the guy with the most hits, the guy with the most home runs in a career, the guy with the most home runs in a season (oh wait, that’s the same guy. That is surely inconvenient). Maybe the guy with 350 wins that we cried about in the booth about. Maybe the guy who “saved baseball” in 1998. You know, the FAMOUS players.
And Gil Hodges.
Whatever.
Congratulations Mike.
