Blyleven Honor

[BeefMaster]

I just realized that this probably isn't on the site anywhere (it could maybe go with retired numbers on the miscellany page somewhere).  While Bert Blyleven never made the MLB Hall of Fame or had his number retired, he is a member of the Twins Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2002 along with Tom Kelly.  Puckett and Hrbek (along with the other Twins whose numbers have been retired and Calvin Griffith, the owner who moved the team to Minnesota) were part of the inaugural class in 2000, and there are currently 12 honorees.

As for other RBI-ers, I wouldn't be surprised to see Gary Gaetti, Greg Gagne, Randy Bush, Frank Viola, and Gene Larkin in the Twins' Hall at some point.

[aldrete bastard]

Is that such a great honour thought??
Like I know fellow RBI'er George Bell is in the so called Blue Jays Hall of Fame...nothing special if you look at Bell's career.

[ultimate7]

Any Hall of Fame containing Gene Larkin can't be much

As for George Bell, I think it'd be worse if he didn't make the Blue Jays HOF, so making it ain't so bad

[aldrete bastard]

easy...the blue jays have had some quality players through out the past 20 years...And did win two world series back to back.  And in 93 had one of the best teams in baseball history.

[aldrete bastard]

Anyways the whole point of my comment was that these so called club hall of fames aren't that great of an acheivement. At least not enough to post permanently on the web site. Especially when guys like George Bell and Gene Larkin could be apart of them. (no disprespect to Gene Larkin but he is nowhere near any kind of hall of fame player)

[BeefMaster]

Clarification - Larkin isn't actually in the Twins HoF.  I was merely speculating, and that was kinda wild speculation.  Only 9 players are in it - Puckett, Hrbek, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Rod Carew, Blyleven, Jim Kaat, Earl Battey, and Bob Allison.  The standards aren't all that high, but they're not that low.

[Baines]

Hey, they're higher than the Collts Ring of Fame.

[BeefMaster]

Hey, they're higher than the Collts Ring of Fame.

Larkin would definitely qualify for that.