Is Mike Piazza headed to Cooperstown?

Hell, yes, Piazza is headed to Cooperstown.

And he'll be in the Hall of Fame as soon as he buys a ticket like the rest of us.

I think he'll slide by.

QUOTE(#1):

Originally posted 09:57 PM ET  12.18 by ...the best policy

Hell, yes, Piazza is headed to Cooperstown.

Is he? Depends on if he took any steriods. I already lost track of who did and who didn't

IF he took steroids?lol...You mean WHEN. Try the Mexican League in 1991 and probably earlier than that and then onward for many years. He's a great example of a guy who would have probably been a career Double or Triple A player but the juice helped him with his strength, confidence and ability to bounce back. It's a shame because he seemed like a great guy and was always great to us Mets fans but I heard stories about him for years. He's probably in the Mitchell report by the way.

QUOTE(#3):

Originally posted 12:21 AM ET  12.19 by Flea Biscuit

Is he? Depends on if he took any steriods. I already lost track of who did and who didn't

Someone only read half the post.

QUOTE(#5):

Originally posted 04:29 AM ET  12.19 by NickTheContrarian

Someone only read half the post.

Yes. Yes they did.

QUOTE(#8):

Originally posted 04:54 AM ET  12.19 by jermur613

He's the greatest offensive catcher possibly ever. He'll get in.

Hated seeing him go to the east coast.

QUOTE(#10):

Originally posted 05:07 AM ET  12.19 by jermur613

Me too. Especially into the Phillies division. He's a local so I always pulled for him. But it was alot harder to root for him in a Met's uni.

Wouldn't have bothered me so much if he'd gone to Philly. But to any of those teams northeast of you? Crappenhammer.

QUOTE(#12):

Originally posted 05:13 AM ET  12.19 by jermur613

I like the way you think. It was kind of an odd turn of events as I remember it. Wasn't he a Marlin for like 3 days between Dodgers and Mets? Granted the Marlins are still a division foe, but would have been much less inner conflict if he had just stayed there.

I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, upon checking, he actually played 5 games for the Marlins before going to the Mets. At my age, even all these years after Curt Flood, it is still hard to grasp the business end of all the player movement.

not roids user??then he is in, but if he use the roids? likely out just like every other cheater player,,,

mike piazza all the way home!!!

Yogi!!!!!

QUOTE(#17):

Originally posted 01:46 PM ET  12.19 by Not4Nutten

Yogi!!!!!

He was also a good defensive catcher. When he caught for the Dodgers, LA lead the league in staff ERA (Mets were 3rd I think); when he moved to NY, NY lead the league. The crap about "not throwing runners out" is because the Mets teach their pitchers not to worry about the men on base, but to concentrate on getting the batter out. This is the correct approach, but it puts a lot of strain on the catcher--and the Mets proceeded to hint that the stolen bases were exclusively the catcher's fault. It was actually the result of an organizational decision, and they just decided to make the catcher the scapegoat.

I think he deserves hall of fame--and yes, so does Yogi!

QUOTE(#3):

Originally posted 12:21 AM ET  12.19 by Flea Biscuit

Is he? Depends on if he took any steriods. I already lost track of who did and who didn't

Frank Thomas didn't.

Piazza had a lifetime .242 BA in the postseason... not that impressive.. Bench was a lifetime .266 in postseason... and Piazza is considered a much better hitter???

also he only threw out 23% of runners attempting to steal... MLB average was 31% during the years Piazza played... for comparison.. Bench threw out an amazing 43% of all runners trying to steal on him