José Ramirez: Underrated Path to Baseball Hall of Fame

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00:03 I know he only stole one base.

00:05 Davis, if you look at comparisons, we were talking about Ernie Banks.

00:08 If you were talking about Hall of Fame trajectory players,

00:12 people would be shocked to learn Jose Ramirez could end up being a Hall of

00:15 Famer, and no one even mentions this guy's name.

00:18 Cleveland ended up signing him to a contract extension.

00:22 He's never the first pick in fantasy baseball.

00:25 He's always at the end of the season ranked as the number two or

00:29 number three player in fantasy baseball.

00:31 He's never any fun to draft.

00:33 Everyone always wants to take somebody else.

00:35 This guy comes through every single year.

00:38 He's just one of the very best players in the game.

00:41 >> He is.

00:43 You definitely like to put guys in the Hall of Fame a little.

00:46 You're such a Hall of Very Good guy, which is totally what Jose Ramirez is.

00:51 Like he to me, a good comp for him is like a Scott Rowland,

00:57 who is a Hall of Famer, but Scott Rowland played forever.

01:00 Scott Rowland added up the counting stats he played until he was 37.

01:04 He got 18 years in the big leagues.

01:08 You're right though, I mean, Jose Ramirez.

01:10 The funny thing is, Craig, and I think this might play into why people

01:14 underrate him a little bit, the last four years of his career,

01:19 he's gone through multiple 300 plate appearance stretches,

01:24 where he has been brutal, just like, and like baseball's a hard game.

01:28 I mean, I'm definitely not hanging it against him, and

01:30 his year end statistics end up being awesome.

01:33 But he's just gone through a couple extended slumps.

01:36 I think that's definitely a little bit a part of it.

01:39 It was 2021 where he went through a huge slump, and also back,

01:45 I wanna say 2019, even though he ended up being awesome that season as well.

01:51 I mean, the Guardians did just leave Coors Field, and

01:53 they absolutely beat up on those poor Colorado Rockies.

01:58 Josh Naylor hit a couple home runs.

02:00 They just, they really took advantage of those environments.

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