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2021 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Torii Hunter

Five facts about Torii Hunter:

Torii Hunter was named to five All-Star teams during his career. He was the starting center fielder for the American League in 2002.

Hunter won nine Gold Gloves in his career, consecutively from 2001 through 2009.

Hunter won two Silver Sluggers and received MVP votes five times.

Hunter hit 16 or more home runs 14 times in his career. He stole 18 or more bases six times. He had 90 or more RBI eight times, including more than 100 RBI twice. He scored 80 or more runs in a season nine times.

Torii Hunter won the Branch Rickey Award in 2009, "given annually from 1992 to 2014 to a member of a MLB organization in recognition of his exceptional community service."

The first two tables below present Torii Hunter's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1997	MIN	21	1	0.0	0.0	-0.0	-0.0
1998	MIN	22	6	0.3	0.5	-0.2	-0.3
1999	MIN	23	134	11.9	14.6	-1.6	-2.9
2000	MIN	24	99	10.9	11.8	0.1	-1.0
2001	MIN	25	148	20.2	19.9	2.2	0.1
2002	MIN	26	148	20.1	17.5	4.3	2.4
2003	MIN	27	154	19.9	18.6	3.0	1.1
2004	MIN	28	138	18.6	16.9	3.4	1.6
2005	MIN	29	98	13.4	12.3	2.3	1.0
2006	MIN	30	147	19.9	18.5	3.1	1.3
2007	MIN	31	160	20.4	20.6	1.6	-0.4
2008	ANA	32	146	19.2	16.9	3.9	2.1
2009	ANA	33	119	16.6	14.1	3.8	2.3
2010	ANA	34	152	19.6	20.1	1.0	-1.0
2011	ANA	35	156	20.2	19.4	1.9	-0.1
2012	ANA	36	140	19.9	15.7	5.3	3.6
2013	DET	37	144	20.5	18.3	3.2	1.3
2014	DET	38	142	16.9	17.7	0.3	-1.4
2015	MIN	39	139	17.1	16.5	1.6	-0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,371	305.7	289.8	39.1	9.9
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			48	6.2	6.2	0.5	-0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,419	311.8	296.0	39.5	9.8

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1997	MIN	21	1	0.0	0.0	-0.0	-0.0
1998	MIN	22	6	0.3	0.5	-0.2	-0.2
1999	MIN	23	134	12.1	14.4	-1.2	-2.5
2000	MIN	24	99	10.8	11.8	-0.0	-1.1
2001	MIN	25	148	20.9	19.2	3.6	1.6
2002	MIN	26	148	19.3	18.2	2.9	1.0
2003	MIN	27	154	19.3	19.1	1.9	0.0
2004	MIN	28	138	18.1	17.4	2.4	0.6
2005	MIN	29	98	13.6	12.1	2.6	1.3
2006	MIN	30	147	19.7	18.8	2.7	0.9
2007	MIN	31	160	20.7	20.3	2.3	0.3
2008	ANA	32	146	18.0	18.1	1.5	-0.2
2009	ANA	33	119	16.8	13.9	4.2	2.7
2010	ANA	34	152	20.2	19.6	2.0	0.1
2011	ANA	35	156	19.9	19.7	1.3	-0.7
2012	ANA	36	140	18.8	16.8	3.1	1.3
2013	DET	37	144	19.5	19.3	1.2	-0.7
2014	DET	38	142	17.2	17.4	0.8	-0.9
2015	MIN	39	139	16.2	17.3	-0.1	-1.8
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,371	301.5	294.0	30.8	1.7
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			48	6.1	6.3	0.3	-0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,419	307.5	300.2	31.1	1.4

This is Torii Hunter's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction

Torii Hunter checks quite a few boxes as a Hall-of-Fame candidate: 5 All-Star teams, 9 Gold Gloves, over 2,400 hits, 350 home runs, almost 1,300 runs scored, almost 1,400 RBI. Hunter was quite good for quite a long time. I don't think most voters think he's quite a Hall-of-Famer, but it's a relatively weak ballot and a very weak freshman class as far as these things go (no disrespect to the 11 first-time players on the ballot), so I suspect that most voters who might be inclined to vote for Hunter would be able to find room for him on their ballot if they really wanted to.

So, how many votes do I think Hunter will get? I don't know. I'd be surprised if he got none or virtually none and I'd be surprised if he got particularly close to 10%, but that leaves a pretty wide range of results that wouldn't surprise me too much. Let's guess 6% and a return for a second ballot next year.

Player Won-Lost Records and Torii Hunter

Baseball Player won-lost records end up being on approximately the same scale as traditional pitcher wins. Hence, one can approximately judge pWins and eWins by the same traditional measures by which one might judge pitcher wins (if one still cares about pitcher wins): 20 pWins is a very good season total, 300 pWins is a very good career total. One thing that makes the comparison only "approximate" is that pWins aren't distributed evenly across positions. Shifting to comparisons to positional average (WOPA) or replacement level (WORL) mostly solve this problem, but, in terms of raw pWins (and eWins), outfielders tend to earn more pWins (and pLosses) than other positions, not because outfielders are better than other positions but because they accumulate somewhat more fielding wins (and fielding losses) than infielders.

So, I would not necessarily say that 300 career pWins is automatically good enough to warrant getting into the Hall of Fame. But 300 career pWins is nevertheless an impressive accomplishment. It is also an accomplishment which Torii Hunter achieved.

Here, then, are all of the players who have earned 300 career pWins since MLB integration.

		300 pGame Winners, since 1947

	Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
1	Hank Aaron	496.7	369.1	98.5	142.5
2	Barry Bonds	466.8	310.6	136.5	174.4
3	Willie Mays	465.3	329.8	116.5	156.6
4	Pete Rose Sr.	439.3	394.7	23.6	64.5
5	Carl Yastrzemski	430.9	360.2	45.5	85.7
6	Rickey Henderson	428.4	350.3	62.5	100.5
7	Frank Robinson	398.0	302.5	70.9	106.8
8	Dave Winfield	397.3	339.8	38.7	75.5
9	Cal Ripken	382.3	351.6	49.2	84.5
10	Al Kaline	380.5	299.2	58.6	93.2
11	Alex Rodriguez	373.8	298.7	81.2	114.9
12	Joe L. Morgan	371.9	293.9	84.9	117.6
13	Reggie Jackson	370.0	295.8	58.4	92.6
14	Derek Jeter	367.7	323.1	61.2	94.8
15	Robin Yount	366.7	345.7	31.9	66.5
16	Albert Pujols	359.9	267.3	71.8	104.3
17	Adrian Beltre	358.5	318.3	35.3	68.5
18	Craig Biggio	357.7	325.7	34.0	67.3
19	Roberto Clemente	357.0	295.1	37.8	70.5
20	Nolan Ryan	354.6	329.6	38.1	81.0
21	Mickey Mantle	354.1	227.5	112.2	141.9
22	Brooks Robinson	352.3	310.6	32.0	64.9
23	Andre Dawson	350.4	309.7	22.8	55.1
24	Lou Brock	347.6	328.7	-7.4	26.1
25	Eddie Murray	346.7	285.5	38.6	70.7
26	Gary Sheffield	343.2	288.0	41.0	72.7
27	Warren Spahn	342.7	287.4	74.3	113.8
28	Ken Griffey Jr.	342.1	297.2	38.3	69.8
29	Mike Schmidt	338.5	257.6	71.0	99.7
30	Chipper Jones	336.2	257.6	69.6	98.6
31	Steve Carlton	335.6	305.9	49.2	86.9
32	Ozzie Smith	333.3	312.5	35.6	66.5
33	Billy Williams	332.4	278.2	31.2	62.1
34	Carlos Beltran	331.4	290.0	32.4	63.6
35	Dwight Evans	330.1	271.9	45.6	75.3
36	Luis Aparicio	329.9	328.1	17.5	50.3
37	Phil Niekro	329.1	322.8	25.2	64.8
38	George Brett	327.7	275.9	44.4	74.9
39	Greg Maddux	327.2	271.7	77.9	115.0
40	Vada Pinson	325.7	297.4	9.7	40.7
41	Rusty Staub	325.0	306.0	-1.9	30.8
42	Stan Musial	324.9	247.7	88.2	126.2
43	Eddie Mathews	320.7	240.9	70.5	99.1
44	Omar Vizquel	320.2	337.6	-0.3	31.6
45	Manny Ramirez	320.0	247.6	60.2	88.9
46	Tony Gwynn Sr.	319.4	286.1	12.4	41.5
47	Luis 'Gonzo' Gonzalez	318.7	290.0	9.9	39.6
48	Don Sutton	318.6	297.3	38.4	75.6
49	Roger Clemens	316.9	228.6	94.6	131.3
50	Paul Molitor	316.7	273.4	38.3	70.6
51	Sammy Sosa	316.6	277.5	20.7	50.1
52	Dave Parker	315.6	273.4	24.1	53.9
53	Gaylord Perry	315.6	290.2	38.2	76.1
54	Tim Raines Sr.	315.4	273.3	27.3	56.1
55	Ichiro Suzuki	312.4	302.4	-2.5	27.5
56	Roberto Alomar	312.3	283.2	36.4	65.4
57	Steve Finley	310.8	289.1	12.1	41.4
58	Ernie Banks	310.5	279.6	21.2	51.0
59	Graig Nettles	309.5	270.9	33.4	61.8
60	Bobby Abreu	309.4	264.0	29.6	57.9
61	Rafael Palmeiro	309.1	267.4	20.4	49.9
62	Tony Perez	307.1	256.0	31.1	59.1
63	Tom Seaver	306.9	258.2	65.1	98.6
64	Willie Davis	306.7	274.7	16.1	45.0
65	Torii Hunter	305.7	289.8	9.9	39.1
66	Lou Whitaker	303.8	262.6	51.2	78.5
67	Darrell Evans	303.5	259.5	31.6	59.5
68	Jeff Kent	301.3	266.1	36.3	63.9
69	Harmon Killebrew	301.1	235.0	48.5	75.7
70	Miguel Cabrera	300.3	243.1	43.8	70.5

Article last updated: November 26, 2020

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