TALENTO SILENCIOSO / SILENT TALENT

In baseball in general there are several types of players, some are the ones who stand out from the rest, there are others who are not so much, and those who are middle ground, who are good but do not have such exceptional numbers to say that they are so talented, but have that consistency in the field that make them very special, and whose performance is very valuable, but are not very striking, and become those players with a silent talent, as a famous colloquial saying of my native Venezuela says, that do not wet but soak.

PORQUE NO SON CONSIDERADOS.? PARTE I / WHY THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED.? PART I

Taking advantage of this week that has just ended, different journalists and people authorized to cast the votes in the exaltation of the future members of the Hall of Fame in its 2023 class, have shown their preferences to the public towards the players they consider should be inside the Temple of the Immortals, There are some players that their performance when they were active players, call powerfully the attention, and have not been voted with the percentage they deserve, opening the debate and comparison with those who are already part of this historic baseball enclosure, which have very similar numbers, resulting this very interesting.

The trend to enter the Hall of Fame, historically has always been to win a World Series ring and of course place good records, other trends in terms of hitters are having connected the famous 3000 thousand hits and 400 or 500 homers, these 2 statistics as that set the tone in most cases, but there are players, which their numbers were very good, and are not inside, not being taken into account in their way to enter, leaving out great performances such as those of Venezuelan Bob Abreu.

Everyone lately was pointing to the records and career of Venezuelan player Ómar Vizquel, of course! his numbers were historic and very similar to those already inside, but the records of another Venezuelan like Bob Abreu, are also just as good, but this one, is in a different position than Omar, because his position in the field was of a right fielder of strength, territory where many great players lived, but Bob was not quite a power hitter, but rather of contact and occasional power, which led him to place good numbers and several seasons of more than 20 home runs.

Una mezcla de poder, contacto, y una buena vista en el plato, que no se traduce a otra cosa si no a que poseía una paciencia que lo llevó a imponer actuaciones que ya yo y muchos la saben, pero no al detalle como en estos últimos días, como algunos se han dado a la tarea de mostrar, resulta que Abreu, tiene números muy buenos en cuanto a WAR, término que se utiliza en el béisbol para evaluar a un jugador, en su aporte al equipo a ganar partidos, tanto con el bate como con el guante, que me ha dejado verdaderamente impresionado, al acumular 60.0 de WAR de por vida, la cual representa en el renglón de esta categoría, como un jugador estrella.

A mixture of power, contact, and a good view at the plate, which does not translate to anything else if not that he possessed a patience that led him to impose performances that I and many already knew but not in detail as in recent days, some have been given the task of showing, it turns out that Abreu, has very good numbers in terms of WAR, a term used in baseball to evaluate a player, in his contribution to the team to win games, both with the bat and with the glove, which has left me truly impressed, to accumulate 60. 0 WAR for life, which represents in this category, as a star player.

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_{Algunas estastisticas / Some statistics Source}

A WAR between 0 and 2 is a reserve player, 2 and 4 is that of a starting player in any good team, 4 is that of an all-star player, 6 is that of Bob of a star player and 8 is that of a candidate for the most valuable player, placing the player from Maracay in a privileged place as one of the men of this game whose contribution helped a lot to the team which he represented, it is nothing invented, and it is not an electoral campaign, they are simply numbers, that had not been shown with the greatest accuracy, and that for not being a player as famous as others, until now and I wish that this way it is, these records do not pass by dejabo of the table.

It is incredible to see how this Venezuelan player has superior numbers and even similar to Ichiro Suzuki and Vladimir Guerrero, players of his position in the field that were very prominent and known by all, not leaving out the great Sammy Sosa, who despite his dark status due to the use of banned substances, is also worth a comparison in terms of numbers, because Abreu is very contemporary with him, leaving more arguments to raise his candidacy to the hall of fame, perhaps not in this class of 2023, if not the next to come.

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