All Time Saves Leader Hangs Em Up..Trevor Hoffman calls it a career ar 43.. I say HOF but not a shoo in like Mariano Rivera will be.

wilheim · Jan 11, 2011

SAN DIEGO (AP)—All-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman(notes) is retiring at age 43 and will take a job in the San
Diego Padres’ front office.

The Beverly Hills Sports Council, which represents Hoffman, confirmed that he is done after recording 601 saves in 18 seasons.

Hoffman played the bulk of his career with San Diego after being acquired as a rookie from the Florida Marlins in 1993. He left San Diego as a free agent after the 2008 season and pitched with the Milwaukee Brewers for two seasons.

Trevor Hoffman pocketed $59,309,000 in career earnings and never started a game..

MLB.com first reported Hoffman’s retirement.

joebatters · Jan 11, 2011

outstanding career. 601 saves. Definitely a HOFer.

Fishhead · Jan 11, 2011

Hoffman not a shoo in?

Ok, maybe not like Rivera, you're right.

Definetly a shoo in though.........600+ saves for goodness sakes.

YourAllAmerican · Jan 11, 2011

When mediocre players like Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven get elected to the Hall of Fame, Trevor Hoffman should be a first-ballot shoo-in.

OK, maybe Alomar and Blyleven were better than mediocre, I'd even be willing to say they were very good, but, good Lord, neither of them are HOF quality.

TomGshotput · Jan 11, 2011

Any team would be much better off having Blyleven pitch 5 000 innings for them than Hoffman pitching 1 000. Hard to think he even did more to help his team than Kevin Brown when he was only on the mound 1/3 as much

The two and three inning relievers were more valuable than the one inning guys and I definitely didn't think Sutter and Gossage deserved to make it

By all accounts a great guy with a very good career, just too many pitchers of his generation who were better

YourAllAmerican · Jan 12, 2011

TomGshotput said:
Any team would be much better off having Blyleven pitch 5 000 innings for them than Hoffman pitching 1 000.

There are a lot of Sabermetricians who agree with you completely. On a purely subjective basis, though, I don't. Off the top of my head I can't think of a time when Byleven was even the best pitcher on his staff, much less one of baseball's all-time greats. Guys like Hoffman, Eckersley, Sutter and Gossage had a profound effect on the way the game is played, though. The role had pretty much fully evolved into a pure 9th-inning specialist by the time Rivera came along, but he has certainly been the best in that specialist role.

billhill999 · Jan 12, 2011

YourAllAmerican said:
When mediocre players like Roberto Alomar .

I never was an Robby guy, but to call him mediocre is just wrong.

YourAllAmerican · Jan 12, 2011

billhill999 said:
I never was an Robby guy, but to call him mediocre is just wrong.

Read a couple of lines further down in my post, Bill.

PimpyMcPimp · Jan 12, 2011

HELLS BELLS!

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