Is Carlos Delgado a Hall of Famer?
On the heels of the devastating season-ending injury to Kevin Youkilis, the Red Sox have thrown a proverbial Hail Mary by signing 38-year-old Carlos Delgado to a minor league deal. Delgado has not appeared in the major leagues since May 10th, 2009. The best case scenario here would be for Delgado to join the team in two weeks and serve as an occasional left-handed replacement for Mike Lowell, who has a .621 OPS against right-handed pitching this season.
A while ago, I wrote a piece on outfielder Jim Edmonds, discussing whether or not he was Hall of Fame worthy. Ultimately, I decided that he should eventually be enshrined in Cooperstown. I’ll be conducting the same type of analysis on the newest member of the Red Sox organization.
This one will be a little trickier than the Edmonds analysis, due to Delgado’s position. There have been a lot of 450-550-HR first baseman/corner outfielder types in MLB over the past 20 years, and not all of them are necessarily Hall of Fame worthy.
I’ll post my analysis and decision when I get a chance.
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