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Article: Johan Santana’s Cooperstown Case: The Puckett Clause

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The big difference is that Puckett’s glaucoma had nothing to do with activity on the field. Santana isn’t the first nor will he be the last to have his body not be able to sustain excellence simply due to the rigors of playing the game.

 

Puckett’s situation is more akin to Lou Gerhig’s or Dave Dravecky.

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Thrylos
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Re: the Puckett clause:   Check out the Tony Oliva Clause, the Doc Gooden Clause, the Fernando Valenzuela Clause, the Mike Scott Clause and the Ron Guidry Clause as well.   If those guys are not in th

jimmer
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What's a bit funny is that because the writers completely screwed the pooch during the 2005 CY Young voting, then can say he only won two CYs. I Imagine three might have gotten him in. 

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According to Bill James, Puckett was the 7th best CF at the time of his retirement, so stat heads seemed to like him. In 12 years, the fans voted him into 10 all-star games, so the fans seemed to thin

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I think Santana's biggest problem is going to be sheer volume of quality names on the ballot presently. 

 

This is an interesting case... I do tend to agree that there are a LOT of players who had HOF caliber seasons for a short span... not sure they belong.

 

 

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