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There are 64 pitchers in the HOF who threw at least 1000 innings (includes Ruth, but used in order to exclude a bunch of early guys who weren't primarily pitchers). Morris would be solidly in the bottom quartile if elected.

There are 18 2B (guys who played at least half their games at 2B). Whitaker would be easily in the top half if elected, probably right at top 1/3.

There are 20 SS in the HOF, Trammell would be in the top half.

There are 61 OF in the HOF, Lemon would be just below the half way point. That does overstate his case, because there are some pretty terrible OF in the HOF, whereas 2B/SS have far fewer poor picks.

Anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying that a HOF that includes Morris but excludes Trammell and Whitaker is making fundamentally flawed decisions about who to include.

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