Cal Ripken Jr. Is a fraud

When I stated thinking about what I was going to write this week I asked myself what do you think the greatest stat was of all time. Was it Ty Cobb's lifetime average of .364? Was it Cy Young's 511 career wins? Could it be Ricky Henderson's 1406 career stolen bases? Oddly enough it was none of these. It was that Cal Ripken Jr. grounded into a career 350 double plays. Now as a disclaimer the top six of all time in this category are all hall of farmers. Is it just the number of season that he played (20) or was it something else? Ripken hit into a double play 3% of the times that he came up to bat or about once every 8 games. I think this leads to a deeper issue. Is Cal Ripken Jr. overrated? Lets throw away the streak for now. He was a career .276 hitter with 431 career homeruns and 3184 hits. His best statistical season was in 1991 when he hit .323 with 34 homers and 114 rbis. Here is my argument shouldn't the hall of fame only have great players in it not players that were good and lasted a long time in the bigs? The simple answer to this is yes but the hall puts in players every year so the quality of player will get diluted. Do I think that Ripken deserves to be in the hall? Yes and No. I think that the streak definitely deserves mention but I think as a player he has no place there.