Craig Biggio is a No-Brainer Hall of Famer

3060 hits (one of only 28 plays to reach the 3000 hit plateau), .281 career batting average, 291 homers (a lot for the power lacking position of second base), 1175 RBI, 414 stolen bases, 7 times an All Star, 5 times a Silver Slugger and 4 times a Gold Glover. Those are Craig Biggio’s career statistics and accolades and they say and prove he’s a Baseball Hall of Famer.

Robin Yount, Derek Jeter, Joe Morgan, Paul Molitor and Roberto Alomar. Baseball-Refence.com states that those five players, four of them hall of famers and one of them a lock of a future hall of famer, are the five most similar batters in baseball history to Craig Biggio. That little factoid says and proves that Biggio is a Baseball Hall of Famer.

Rogers Hornsby, Eddie Collins, Nap Lajoie, Joe Morgan, Charlie Gehringer, Jackie Robinson, Ryne Sandberg. Those seven players are likely the only seven second basemen in baseball history that are better than Craig Biggio. So, if Craig Biggio is one of the 10 greatest players of all time at his primary position that says and proves he is a Baseball Hall of Famer.

Craig Biggio will be a Baseball Hall of Famer some day, hopefully next year, but to 32 percent of the Baseball Writers Association of America he’s not a hall of famer on the first ballot. He’s not a hall of famer today. What the Hell is wrong with those people?

Craig Biggio should have been a lock for first ballot induction into the Baseball Hall of Famer. But, for a multitude of reasons he’s not. He’s not currently a hall of famer because some writers punished him for playing in the so-called “Steroid Era,” despite their being zero evidence that he in fact used performance enhancing drugs. Some writers punished him because some writers idiotically refuse to vote for any player on their first ballot. This is why no player in baseball history has unanimously been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Not even Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ted Williams or Jackie Robinson. Some writers punished him because they don’t even believe that Craig Biggio is a Hall of Famer, which is ludicrous given all of those stats and facts I said at the beginning.

Craig Biggio was one of those hardcore, nose to the grindstone, work their butt off every day of their career type players and he was one of my favorites to watch play the game from the moment I became a baseball fan to the day he retired, in a game I had the great pleasure of viewing. You can’t tell me that Craig Biggio is not a hall of famer. But, for ignorant and ridiculous reasons, Craig Biggio is not a hall of famer in 2013.