He spent the majority of his career as a D.H., so in the absence of any defensive resume at all, let alone a good one, his case is entirely driven by his offensive production.
There are no 200-hit seasons. He exceeded 30 H.R. one time. He has just north of 2,200 career hits. And he needed a really lousy age-41 season to crawl past 300 career homers. Yes, he won 2 batting titles, but so did Willie freaking McGee. He had 2 Top-5 finishes in the M.V.P. race.
The only things that I can see supporting his case are that he is in the top 25 of career On-Base Percentage and in the top 35 in career OPS. And that Harold Baines was inexplicably selected last year, which should never be the basis for making ballot choices for the Hall. It appears that he will make it this year, and I'm not sure I fully understand why. Do any of you feel strongly about it?