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Red Sox History: 5 former players who deserve more Hall of Fame love

By Daniel Fox

BALTIMORE, MD - CIRCA 1979: Dwight Evans #24 of the Boston Reds Sox bats against the Baltimore Orioles during an Major League Baseball game circa 1979 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Evans played for the Red Sox from 1972-90. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - CIRCA 1979: Dwight Evans #24 of the Boston Reds Sox bats against the Baltimore Orioles during an Major League Baseball game circa 1979 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Evans played for the Red Sox from 1972-90. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 25: David Ortiz of Fox Sports smiles after game two of the 2017 World Series at Dodger Stadium on October 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 25: David Ortiz of Fox Sports smiles after game two of the 2017 World Series at Dodger Stadium on October 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /

5 Red Sox who deserve more Hall of Fame consideration

Few Hall of Fame cycles has been more eagerly anticipated by Red Sox fans than this one. After 13 terrific years in Boston, legendary designated hitter David Ortiz is eligible for election, and he is projected to be right at the 75% vote mark needed for election.

Yet while Ortiz will eventually get the call to the Hall, there have been many players in the franchise’s long history whose case for Cooperstown has not been given the proper due.

For this list, I looked only at players who spent a significant portion of their careers with the Red Sox. So while David Cone, Bret Saberhagen, and Jack Clark all played with the Red Sox and had terrific careers, they did not have a long enough career with the team to be considered for this list.

As with my last Hall of Fame piece, a significant portion of how I determined if a player was Hall of Fame worthy or not was by looking at JAWS. Invented by Hall of Fame guru Jay Jaffe, JAWS averages a player’s cumulative WAR and the WAR from their seven-year peak, making it easier to compare players who were great for a short period to those who compiled stats over a long career.

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