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Edward Achorn: Time to put Dwight Evans in the Hall of Fame
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
By Edward Achorn
Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans
Journal archives
The financial rewards for 20 years of work researching and writing a book about a 19th Century baseball star, I have discovered, are relatively meager. But the effort did have its compensations.
During spring training, I arrived in my office at The Journal one morning to a blinking red light and this message: “Hi, Ed, this is Dwight Evans. I used to play for the Boston Red Sox.”
Which is a little like getting a call from Pablo Picasso saying that he used to paint.
Mr. Evans was one of the greatest players in history, a dogged and powerful hitter, and a brilliant and elegant right fielder with a phenomenal arm.
I saw his very first game at Fenway Park from the right field grandstand — Sept. 16, 1972 — when he substituted for Reggie Smith and made a beautiful diving catch right before my eyes. My dad, sitting next to me, told me to watch him: He was going to be a great one.
I saw him in “The Greatest Game Ever” — Game Six of the 1975 World Series. From my vantage point in the very last row behind third base, I watched the Cincinnati Reds’ Joe Morgan blast a ball deep into the murky shadows of right field, and saw Dwight, in a blur, dash to the fence, leap to make an improbable one-handed catch, and double up Ken Griffey at first base. It was like a dream sequence.
And here Dwight was on my voice mail, telling me he had read “Fifty-nine in ’84,” loved it, and found its depiction of early baseball fascinating. (He had taken the time to track me down and tell me this, I later learned, even though a close family member was going through a health crisis.) I called him back and we had a great chat.
Needless to say, I was thrilled to discover that Dwight Evans was a gentleman of the first order as well as a great star — something all too rare in our world of uncouth celebrity sports brats. It was like the time I found Bobby Orr standing around, unannounced and unattended, in a little waiting room off my paper’s newsroom. He had brought in some of his stuff for a charity auction and was reluctant to interrupt us while we were so busy working.
Happily, I got to share with Mr. Evans one of my pet peeves: He belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and would be there if the juiced-up statistics of the corrupt, steroids-pumping crowd had not blinded writers to his achievements.
Everybody knows Mr. Evans was the best right fielder of his time, with eight Gold Glove awards. What is not as well understood is what a dominant hitter he was, particularly when measured against the men of his pre-steroids generation.
Bill James, the guru of baseball statistics, calls Mr. Evans “one if the most underrated players in baseball history.” And Patrick Languzzi, of Maynard, Mass., is such a zealous advocate for enshrinement that he has written an extensive analysis of Mr. Evans’s qualifications for the Hall, broken into six sections, with tabs for easy reference.
The numbers are stunning. From 1980 through 1989, Mr. Evans ranked:
• First in all of Major League Baseball in runs created (1,067), ahead of Hall of Famers Ricky Henderson, Eddie Murray, Robin Yount and Mike Schmidt.
• First in MLB in extra-base hits (605), ahead of Messrs. Yount, Murray, Schmidt and Hall of Famer George Brett.
• First in the American League in home runs (256), ahead of Mr. Murray and Hall of Famers Jim Rice and Cal Ripken.
During that decade he was the only player in Major League Baseball to post nine consecutive seasons of 20 or more home runs — back when players were normal-looking, not juiced-up monsters, and home runs meant something.
Dwight Evans is the only player eligible for the Hall of Fame not to be enshrined who falls among one of only 13 players in baseball history to have at least 2,400 hits, 1,450 runs, 1,375 walks and runs batted in, 480 doubles and 385 home runs. This list includes such greats as: Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson, Mel Ott and Carl Yastrzemski.
Indeed, every other MLB player who led his decade in extra base hits, from the turn of the century through 1989, has been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. It’s quite a list: Honus Wagner (1900s); Tris Speaker (1910s); Ruth (1920s); Jimmie Foxx (1930s); Stan Musial (1940s and ’50s); Aaron (1960s); Reggie Jackson (1970s). Mr. Evans stands alone in being denied entry.
All these numbers can make your head spin.
What they really mean is that, although Mr. Evans seemed low-key and rarely thumped his chest, he was unquestionably one of the most dominant players of his era, not only defensively but offensively. And he did it without steroids.
Such players should be in the Hall of Fame. And it would be nice to see one of the good guys get his just reward.
How about it, ye gods of baseball?
Edward Achorn ( eachorn@projo.com) is The Journal’s deputy editorial-pages editor.
Edward Achorn: Time to put Dwight Evans in the Hall of Fame
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
By Edward Achorn
Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans
Journal archives
The financial rewards for 20 years of work researching and writing a book about a 19th Century baseball star, I have discovered, are relatively meager. But the effort did have its compensations.
During spring training, I arrived in my office at The Journal one morning to a blinking red light and this message: “Hi, Ed, this is Dwight Evans. I used to play for the Boston Red Sox.”
Which is a little like getting a call from Pablo Picasso saying that he used to paint.
Mr. Evans was one of the greatest players in history, a dogged and powerful hitter, and a brilliant and elegant right fielder with a phenomenal arm.
I saw his very first game at Fenway Park from the right field grandstand — Sept. 16, 1972 — when he substituted for Reggie Smith and made a beautiful diving catch right before my eyes. My dad, sitting next to me, told me to watch him: He was going to be a great one.
I saw him in “The Greatest Game Ever” — Game Six of the 1975 World Series. From my vantage point in the very last row behind third base, I watched the Cincinnati Reds’ Joe Morgan blast a ball deep into the murky shadows of right field, and saw Dwight, in a blur, dash to the fence, leap to make an improbable one-handed catch, and double up Ken Griffey at first base. It was like a dream sequence.
And here Dwight was on my voice mail, telling me he had read “Fifty-nine in ’84,” loved it, and found its depiction of early baseball fascinating. (He had taken the time to track me down and tell me this, I later learned, even though a close family member was going through a health crisis.) I called him back and we had a great chat.
Needless to say, I was thrilled to discover that Dwight Evans was a gentleman of the first order as well as a great star — something all too rare in our world of uncouth celebrity sports brats. It was like the time I found Bobby Orr standing around, unannounced and unattended, in a little waiting room off my paper’s newsroom. He had brought in some of his stuff for a charity auction and was reluctant to interrupt us while we were so busy working.
Happily, I got to share with Mr. Evans one of my pet peeves: He belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and would be there if the juiced-up statistics of the corrupt, steroids-pumping crowd had not blinded writers to his achievements.
Everybody knows Mr. Evans was the best right fielder of his time, with eight Gold Glove awards. What is not as well understood is what a dominant hitter he was, particularly when measured against the men of his pre-steroids generation.
Bill James, the guru of baseball statistics, calls Mr. Evans “one if the most underrated players in baseball history.” And Patrick Languzzi, of Maynard, Mass., is such a zealous advocate for enshrinement that he has written an extensive analysis of Mr. Evans’s qualifications for the Hall, broken into six sections, with tabs for easy reference.
The numbers are stunning. From 1980 through 1989, Mr. Evans ranked:
• First in all of Major League Baseball in runs created (1,067), ahead of Hall of Famers Ricky Henderson, Eddie Murray, Robin Yount and Mike Schmidt.
• First in MLB in extra-base hits (605), ahead of Messrs. Yount, Murray, Schmidt and Hall of Famer George Brett.
• First in the American League in home runs (256), ahead of Mr. Murray and Hall of Famers Jim Rice and Cal Ripken.
During that decade he was the only player in Major League Baseball to post nine consecutive seasons of 20 or more home runs — back when players were normal-looking, not juiced-up monsters, and home runs meant something.
Dwight Evans is the only player eligible for the Hall of Fame not to be enshrined who falls among one of only 13 players in baseball history to have at least 2,400 hits, 1,450 runs, 1,375 walks and runs batted in, 480 doubles and 385 home runs. This list includes such greats as: Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson, Mel Ott and Carl Yastrzemski.
Indeed, every other MLB player who led his decade in extra base hits, from the turn of the century through 1989, has been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. It’s quite a list: Honus Wagner (1900s); Tris Speaker (1910s); Ruth (1920s); Jimmie Foxx (1930s); Stan Musial (1940s and ’50s); Aaron (1960s); Reggie Jackson (1970s). Mr. Evans stands alone in being denied entry.
All these numbers can make your head spin.
What they really mean is that, although Mr. Evans seemed low-key and rarely thumped his chest, he was unquestionably one of the most dominant players of his era, not only defensively but offensively. And he did it without steroids.
Such players should be in the Hall of Fame. And it would be nice to see one of the good guys get his just reward.
How about it, ye gods of baseball?
Edward Achorn ( eachorn@projo.com) is The Journal’s deputy editorial-pages editor.
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Former slugger Dwight Evans should be considered by a Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, according to sabermetrician Bill James. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Dwight Evans and Darrell Evans are not related. But they do have a relationship.
According to Bill James, father of baseball sabermetrics, both should be considered for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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James says Dwight was the best player in a Red Sox outfield that also included Fred Lynn and Jim Rice (who eventually reached Cooperstown on his last try) and calls Darrell “the most underrated player in baseball history.”
In The Bill James Handbook 2019, the author, analyst, and mathematician has a section called “The 25 Best Players Who Are Not in the Hall of Fame.”
Dwight Evans is ranked No. 4 and Darrell Evans No. 7.
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The former spent all but the final season of his career with the Boston Red Sox, playing for the team in the 1975 and 1986 World Series. The 6’2″, 180-pound righthaded hitter was best-known for his spectacular defense in right field, were he won eight Gold Gloves. He also made the American League All-Star team three times.
Evans, a durable star who played the entire 162-game schedule twice, played for 20 years from 1972-91, earning a peak salary of $1,600,000 in 1988. That was a year after his most prolific power season, 1987, when he had 34 home runs and 123 runs batted in.
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By the time he played out the string with the Baltimore Orioles, Dewey Evans had 385 home runs and a .370 lifetime on-base percentage – nearly 100 points higher than his batting average.
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Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews, shown here in 1963, was instrumental in the development of Darrell Evans, another slugging third baseman who hit left-handed. (AP Photo)
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The differential in Darrell Evans was even more dramatic. He had a .361 on-base percentage but only a .248 batting average. The 6’2″, 200-pound lefthanded batter began with the Atlanta Braves, where in 1973 he was part of the first trio of teammates (with Hank Aaron and Davey Johnson) to hit 40 home runs in the same season.
Primarily a third baseman, the native California clubbed 40 home runs in both leagues, leading the American League with 40 in 1985. His final count was 414.
Although he won a World Series ring with the 1984 Tigers, Evans always said the thrill of his career was scoring ahead of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run on April 8, 1974.
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He also had a career highlight in 1984, when he homered in his first at-bat with the Tigers.
Coached and managed by Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews, another lefty-hitting slugger who played third base for the Braves, Evans drew 1,605 walks, eighth on the career list at the time his 21-year career ended.
The two-time All-Star had great baseball bloodlines: both his mother and aunt played professional softball.
Darrell Evans never made more than $1,083,333 in a season but would earn significantly more in today’s inflated market. He’s never mentioned when the various Veterans Committees come up their annual 10-man ballots every December but perhaps that should change.
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At least Bill James thinks so.
In his book, he compares Darrell Evans to Graig Nettles, another lefty-hitting third baseman who hit for high power but a low average.
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“Nettles was a better defensive third baseman and retained his value longer,” James writes, “but Evans rates higher as a Hall of Fame candidate because of his extremely high walk totals. He has the same career batting average as Nettles and about the same home run total but his OPS (on-base plus slugging) is 42 points higher mostly because of his walks.
“When these guys played, people just couldn’t imagine that a .250 hitter could be a really valuable player because of his walks and homers.”
James gives the other Evans even higher praise.
“I wrote a long article for Grantland a few years ago, arguing that Evans should be in the Hall of Fame,” he says in the 622-page paperback. “Great defense, power, walks. Another victim of the batting average illusion – like (Bobby) Grich, Darrell Evans, Graig Nettles, and others. But Dwight didn’t hit .248. He hit .272.”
The only players listed ahead of Dwight Evans in the James book are Ted Simmons, Lou Whitaker, and early 20th century shortstop Bill Dahlen.
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Former slugger Dwight Evans should be considered by a Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, according to sabermetrician Bill James. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Dwight Evans and Darrell Evans are not related. But they do have a relationship.
According to Bill James, father of baseball sabermetrics, both should be considered for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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James says Dwight was the best player in a Red Sox outfield that also included Fred Lynn and Jim Rice (who eventually reached Cooperstown on his last try) and calls Darrell “the most underrated player in baseball history.”
In The Bill James Handbook 2019, the author, analyst, and mathematician has a section called “The 25 Best Players Who Are Not in the Hall of Fame.”
Dwight Evans is ranked No. 4 and Darrell Evans No. 7.
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The former spent all but the final season of his career with the Boston Red Sox, playing for the team in the 1975 and 1986 World Series. The 6’2″, 180-pound righthaded hitter was best-known for his spectacular defense in right field, were he won eight Gold Gloves. He also made the American League All-Star team three times.
Evans, a durable star who played the entire 162-game schedule twice, played for 20 years from 1972-91, earning a peak salary of $1,600,000 in 1988. That was a year after his most prolific power season, 1987, when he had 34 home runs and 123 runs batted in.
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By the time he played out the string with the Baltimore Orioles, Dewey Evans had 385 home runs and a .370 lifetime on-base percentage – nearly 100 points higher than his batting average.
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Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews, shown here in 1963, was instrumental in the development of Darrell Evans, another slugging third baseman who hit left-handed. (AP Photo)
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The differential in Darrell Evans was even more dramatic. He had a .361 on-base percentage but only a .248 batting average. The 6’2″, 200-pound lefthanded batter began with the Atlanta Braves, where in 1973 he was part of the first trio of teammates (with Hank Aaron and Davey Johnson) to hit 40 home runs in the same season.
Primarily a third baseman, the native California clubbed 40 home runs in both leagues, leading the American League with 40 in 1985. His final count was 414.
Although he won a World Series ring with the 1984 Tigers, Evans always said the thrill of his career was scoring ahead of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run on April 8, 1974.
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He also had a career highlight in 1984, when he homered in his first at-bat with the Tigers.
Coached and managed by Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews, another lefty-hitting slugger who played third base for the Braves, Evans drew 1,605 walks, eighth on the career list at the time his 21-year career ended.
The two-time All-Star had great baseball bloodlines: both his mother and aunt played professional softball.
Darrell Evans never made more than $1,083,333 in a season but would earn significantly more in today’s inflated market. He’s never mentioned when the various Veterans Committees come up their annual 10-man ballots every December but perhaps that should change.
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Boston Red Sox Senior Baseball Operations Advisor Bill James arrives for a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays in Fort Myers, Fla. on March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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At least Bill James thinks so.
In his book, he compares Darrell Evans to Graig Nettles, another lefty-hitting third baseman who hit for high power but a low average.
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He has the same career batting average as Nettles and about the same home run total but his OPS (on-base plus slugging) is 42 points higher mostly because of his walks.
“When these guys played, people just couldn’t imagine that a .250 hitter could be a really valuable player because of his walks and homers.”
James gives the other Evans even higher praise.
“I wrote a long article for Grantland a few years ago, arguing that Evans should be in the Hall of Fame,” he says in the 622-page paperback. “Great defense, power, walks. Another victim of the batting average illusion – like (Bobby) Grich, Darrell Evans, Graig Nettles, and others. But Dwight didn’t hit .248. He hit .272.”
The only players listed ahead of Dwight Evans in the James book are Ted Simmons, Lou Whitaker, and early 20th century shortstop Bill Dahlen.
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