Mike Robinette has been the face of the Seattle Alligators franchise for the first 12 1/2 seasons of their history and yesterday he became the first Seattle player to reach the 2,000 career hit plateau. (He is the 13th player in WPK history to reach 2,000 career hits.)
The mild-mannered 7-time All-Star is not having a great season after a very fine 1977 campaign but he remains one of the most popular and talented players in the game. While he will almost surely be a Hall of Fame candidate when his career is over the current feeling is that he will likely fall short, though most think he will stay on the ballot for several years.
His current Allen Scale score is 29 with a 50 being an average HOF score and 100 being the maximum score (with some slight chance for a few more points coming from the Canova List additional points system).
Note: we will not take the time here to go into the details and history of the Allen Scale, created by foremost baseball researcher/theoretician Murray Allen, but promise to provide more details in a later post, including more about Professor Allen's biography and contributions to baseball research as well as those of his friend and compatriot Dr. Jeremiah Jefferson, the creator of the Jefferson Wins Above Replacement Score (JAWS) tool, which is one of the main components that feed into the development of an Allen Scale score.