Jorge Posada: he is a Hall of Fame? [Poll]

Jorge Posada: he is a Hall of Fame? [Poll]: Jorge Posada, he announced his retirement Tuesday after 17 years in the major leagues, all with the Yankees. "The New York 40-year-old catcher has won five World Series, was an all-star five times and finished with a batting average of 273, 275 career. home runs and RBI 1,065.

It's all very impressive, and certainly he is going to go as one of the Yankees greats of all time. But he is a Hall of Fame?

There are 16 Captors enshrined in Cooperstown. Posada-who also 1,664 hits, 900 runs scored, a percentage on the basis of percentage and 374 474-is statistically rather than average those guys.

But that can be taken two ways--it is true that Posada did not dominate any particular category, but surely holds the right among the best that ever played the position.

Has not won the Golden Gloves, and his highest finish in MVP voting were thirds in 2003 and sixth in 2007. As a point of comparison, Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench won 10 Golden Gloves and two MVP.

But there is much to be said for those five World Series titles, including four during a stretch of five years from 1996 to 2000 and the role that Posada played on those teams. And the fact that he played for so long and always wore a Yankees uniform – these are the kinds of things statistics, but not necessarily reveal, certainly, voters must consider.

So what do you think? Vote in the poll, then leave a comment explaining why you voted the way you did.

Who Needs Prince Fielder?

Who Needs Prince Fielder: Going into the off-peak, the basic architectural plan of the Texas Rangers was simply to do their better to retain the armed service* of free agent C.J. Alexander Wilson and continue to harvest the does good from single of the best farm systems of rules in baseball game. A simple-minded, straightforward architectural plan for a team up that won 186 secret plan* and made 2 World serial publication appearings in the cobbler's last 2 years. A plan now shattered gives thanks to the off-peak bonanza of the Los Angeles Angel Falls*.

The angels shocked baseball not only bringing in a top free agent, but the batsman top and top pitcher available in the market. Albert Pujols is already essentially a circle inside the Hall of fame, an aging one but still with plenty in his tank and Wilson is a starter without a lot of mileage on his arm that would have supported for Cy Young in the majority, that is, one without the 2011 version of Justin Verlander.

Not only did the Angels add a bunch of wins a team on the cusp of the playoffs, but Wilson's signature, they also got to take vince directly from Rangers, their main rival to the West. Four wins in addition to your bottom line are always valuable, but arrive to take them directly from your biggest competitor is just the icing on top. Rangers ' replacements for Wilson are better pitchers than Wilson replaces in Anaheim, but is still a further loss.

In other words, Rangers ' grip on the Division is in trouble, but there is a man who can strengthen it: Prince Fielder. I calculated playoff odds 2012 each team with and without the first base of slugging free-agent, and no team is going to earn more by signing him to Texas.