Why Todd Helton will be in the Hall of Fame

Todd Helton has spent his entire 13 year career playing for a small market team, so you may not realize the quality and quantity of his stats without looking into it.

Career Stats
BA - .328
HR's- 321
RBI – 1181
SLG - .569
OBP - .426

One of the most interesting stats that Todd has to his credit is that on July 22, Todd Helton became the fastest MLB player to reach 500 doubles in a career. There have only been 49 players to previously reach the mark and 46 of them are in the Hall of Fame. Craig Biggio, Edgar Martinez and Pete Rose are the only players from the 500 Double club to not currently be in the Hall. Both Biggio and Martinez are not eligible yet and Rose of course is ineligible at this time. To me this makes this club one of the most prestigious in baseball history and to be the fastest player to reach it in history is a remarkable feat.

In the era we are in today with all the acquisitions of performance enhancing drugs being used, Helton has managed to bypass all of them. Sure his power numbers dipped a little bit throughout the years but he was sidelined with a pretty serious back injury which contributed to the decline of those stats.

The Rockies made a remarkable run in 2007 and are in the hunt for the wild card this year. Todd has provided this team and franchise with much needed leadership and has proved to be the greatest Colorado Rockies player to date.

Helton has been a staple for the team since 1997 at the plate and at first base. Tallying three gold gloves and providing leadership to the organization on and off the field, Helton has helped Colorado gain notoriety as a MLB franchise.

All the numbers prove that Helton should be the first Colorado Rockies player to be enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame. - James Morrison

Jim (no relation to the dead Door’s guy) is a self proclaimed rotisserie expert. Jim has been participating in an serious Ultra-Rotisserie league (you can protect some minor leaguers too) at $2,600 per team instead of $260 (similar to Ultimate Franchise Baseball ™) for the past 17 years and has finished in the money 14 times with 8 First place finishes and over $260,000 in total winnings over the 17 year period. While the world is full of institutions and people that come with disclaimers on how past performance is no guarantee of future results, Jim is brazen enough to claim that it will be in your best interest to follow his advice going forward. He’ll write it, we’ll publish it and we shall see………