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- The immediate answer is “Good.” Kaat got 10 of the 16 votes the last time the Golden Era was voted on, in 2014, missing election by a mere two votes. However … Despite Kaat being just two votes short, he was still behind two returning candidates.
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Nov 10, 2021 · Kaat’s WAR is 50.5, which is pretty good, but he also pitched 25 years to get it, while someone like Luis Tiant (who also belongs in the Hall of Fame), was 66.1 in six fewer seasons.
Dec 5, 2021 · MINNEAPOLIS -- Jim Kaat will be the first to tell you that he was never a consistently ace-caliber pitcher, the likes of which are usually inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He said as much on Sunday, many times over, and it seemed he'd come to terms with that.
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Today, after more than 50 years in the game as a player, coach and broadcaster, Kaat finds himself on the cusp of Cooperstown – thanks to 283 wins achieved over the course of a remarkably consistent career.
Jul 24, 2022 · Thirty-nine years after he played his final big league game, Jim Kaat is a Hall of Famer. He was inducted on Sunday, seven months after the Golden Days Era Committee made him a baseball immortal. Kaat, 83, acknowledged that he was more.
Dec 7, 2021 · Jim Kaat, whose great baseball career and great baseball life has now been honored by the Golden Days Era Committee, was talking about that baseball life on Tuesday morning, and looking back, because I’ve asked him to. “I like to think I’m a lot like our game,” Kaat said. “I don’t live in the past. I just honor it.”.
Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2014, Kaat appeared for the second time as a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot for possible Hall of Fame consideration for 2015, which required 12 votes.
Jul 25, 2022 · Jim Kaat’s induction Sunday into the Hall of Fame raises a long-running issue. How do you weigh career value against peak value? How big do career numbers have to be before a player is as Hall-worthy as someone with a shorter stretch of MVP-level performance?
