Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
Quote Originally Posted by The Boz View Post

Hall of Fame in your mind? What would he have to do yet to make it?
Kershaw is the “worst great pitcher” in the postseason for the modern era but Grienke isn’t far behind.

They both get in though.
We will forever debate about postseason Kershaw, but if you look beyond his bad numbers, you will see that most of the runs were allowed when he was left in for far too long, due to managers (mostly Roberts) fearing using the shaky bullpen.

If they hook Kershaw when everyone watching knew he was out of gas, he'd have far different numbers. There weren't many postseason starts where he just got outright bombed.

100% Kershaw gets into HOF, as his regular season numbers (197-87, 2.48/1.001, 2807 K, 629 BB) are among the best ever in the modern era.

Greinke's numbers are more "good but not great". 223-141, 3.42/1.167, 2882 K /739 BB. He had a lot of excellent seasons, especially 2015 at the age of 31, but plenty of mediocre ones in there, as well. Kershaw was excellent almost every year of his career.

I wouldn't put Greinke in the HOF. But there's nothing he can do at this point, at age 39, to really solidify it further. Maybe reach 3000 K.