I’ll start by saying it is a travesty that Larry Walker isn’t in Cooperstown already.

My second point will be, I HATE that the gatekeepers to Cooperstown are the baseball writers association. A bunch of keyboard warriors get to decide the fate of the best baseball players of all time? Give me a break.

Larry is in his final year of eligibility and we will find out if he makes it in at 6pm tomorrow on ESPN.

Baseball is game of numbers. Unfortunately the dumb writers association says he got his numbers because he plated at Coors Field where the ball travels further, inflating offensive statistics. In Colorado Walker hit .384 at home, compared with only .280 on the road.

Walker is one of only 21 players in history to be a member of the 300/400/500 club. Walker finished his 17 seasons with a .313 career batting average, a .400 on-base percentage and .565 slugging percentage.

He also has racked up quote a long list of personal accomplishments that include:

Three batting titles (1998, 1999, 2001), seven Gold Gloves, 383 home runs, including 49 in 1997. Was the National League MVP and stole 230 bases.

An even bigger stat, the slash line. For those of you who don’t know what the slash line is.

The slash line is is a colloquial term used to represent a player’s batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. Those three stats are often referenced together in baseball media with forward slashes separating them, which is where the term slash line comes from

Only 6 players in the history of the MLB exceeded Walkers slash line. All of those players occupy real estate in Cooperstown.

And most of all and my final point. HE DIDN’T DO STEROIDS! Walker is famously quoted as saying:

“No needles went in my ass, I played the game clean. It’s almost like Coors Field is my PED.”

I REST MY CASE