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FuzzyRussianHat · 12-28-2024, 04:56 AM

Beisbol Sudamerica’s 2022 Hall of Fame class was a rock solid three player group, each earning a first ballot nod with more than 85% of the vote. LF Hector Correa led the way at 97.6%, joined by OF Jomar Cardoso at 94.4% and SP Franco Rodriguez at 87.2%. The top returner was 3B Artemio Reyes with 54.6% on his sixth ballot, falling again short of the 66% requirement. No other players cracked 50% and none dropped off the ballot after ten failed attempts.

Hector Correa – Left Field – Guayaquil Golds – 97.6% First Ballot

Hector Correa was a 6’0’’, 200 pound switch-hitting left fielder from Guayaquil, Ecuador’s most populous city. Correa was a great contact hitter with very reliable home run power. He also had one of the better eyes for walks in South America, although his strikeout rate was unremarkable. Correa specifically thrived against right-handed pitching with a career 1.043 OPS and 174 wRC+. Against lefties, he was merely alright for his career with a career .762 OPS and 106 wRC+.

Correa only led the league in home runs once, but he hit 40+ in 11 seasons and was usually good for 100+ RBI. Unlike your typical slugger, Correa had pretty good speed and was a highly skilled baserunner. That and his gap power meant he gave you 30 doubles and 11 triples over his 162 game average along with 41 homers. Correa was a scrappy sparkplug type with a tireless work ethic and great adaptability, making him a force to behold.

Defensively, Correa played almost exclusively as a left fielder. On the whole he graded as being reliably average, but his stats were dragged down a bit by his final years. Correa won three Gold Gloves in his career, providing positive defensive value for a good chunk of his run. His durability was quite solid over a 21-year career, becoming one of the few to play 3000+ professional games. Correa’s skillset, longevity, and work ethic made him one of the biggest baseball superstars from South America in his era.

Correa was also one of the biggest stars to ever come out of Ecuador, where he was especially beloved. He got to live out his childhood dream of starring for his hometown Guayaquil as the Golds picked him 10^th in the 1995 BSA Draft. Correa was a full-time starter immediately, but did struggle as a rookie. He had strikeout issues in his earliest years, leading in whiffs in his sophomore season at 195. Correa still had a solid 1997 campaign and by 1998 was winning his first Silver Slugger. 1998 also was Correa’s first of two times hitting for the cycle.

1999 was his first of six seasons leading the Bolivar League with an OPS above one. Correa surprisingly wasn’t an MVP finalist that year despite what would be a career best in WAR (10.6) and wRC+ (209). This was his lone year leading in walks and his first leading in OBP, slugging, and OPS. From 1999-06, Correa led in WAR four times, wRC+ five times, OPS six times, slugging five times, OBP four times, batting average twice, total bases five times, runs scored five times, and RBI twice.

Correa won MVP and Silver Slugger honors in 2000 in his only season leading in home runs with 51. This also would be his career best in total bases (434). Although he didn’t lead again in homers, he did top that mark with 54 in 2001 and 53 in 2002. 2001 also had his career best 138 runs scored. After the 2001 season, the Golds extended him for $35,380,000 over eight years. Correa was the WARlord from 2000-02, winning three consecutive MVPs and Silver Sluggers. 2002 was also his first of three Gold Gloves, winning again in 2003 and 2004.

In 2002, Correa won a batting title and led in the triple slash, posting his career bests in batting average (.376) and OBP (.436). He would drop off a bit with only 5.2 WAR in 2003, then bounced back for his fourth MVP in 2004. Correa again dipped slightly in 2005, but grabbed his fifth MVP and sixth Silver Slugger in 2006. That season was his fourth as the WARlord and had a career-best 142 RBI. Correa joined Valor Melo as the only players to win 5+ MVPs in Beisbol Sudamerica history to that point.

After struggling most of the 1990s, Guayaquil returned to the playoffs with a divisional series exit in 2001. In 2002, Correa led his hometown to their second-ever Bolivar League pennant, although they were defeated by Brasilia in Copa Sudamerica. In 13 playoff starts, Correa had 13 hits, 10 runs, 4 homers, 7 RBI, and a .977 OPS. That helped forever solidify Correa’s position as a hometown icon in Guayaquil. Despite his personal successes, the Golds remained just outside of the playoffs for the remainder of his tenure.

Correa was a national icon and represented Ecuador for his entire career, even after his pro contracts took him away from home. From 1997-2016, Correa played 177 games with 148 hits, 102 runs, 27 doubles, 47 home runs, 102 RBI, 49 stolen bases, a .229/.314/.498 slash, and 5.1 WAR. As of 2037, no one has played more games for Ecuador. Correa ranks fifth in WAR among position players, first in runs, first in hits, second in doubles, second in home runs, and second in RBI.

His professional days with Guayaquil ended after the 2006 season with the soon-to-be 34 year-old Correa opting out of the remainder of his deal. With the Golds, Correa had 2081 hits, 1207 runs, 336 doubles, 160 triples, 467 home runs, 1237 RBI, 651 walks, 670 stolen bases, a .323/.384/.643 slash, 169 wRC+, and 78.3 WAR. He likely solidified a Hall of Fame career just with that, although he had another decade of baseball left. Guayaquil retired Correa’s #18 uniform at the end of his career.

The allure of playing in Major League Baseball and the paycheck that came with that was hard to pass up for Correa. He signed a five-year, $61,500,000 deal with the Atlanta Aces. While never an awards candidate, Correa was a very good starter with 5+ WAR and 34+ homers in each of his first three years for Atlanta. They won a division title in 2007, but lost in the second round. The Aces would be above .500, but just outside of the playoffs for the rest of Correa’s tenure.

In 2010, Correa missed six weeks between a sprained thumb and intercostal strain. He failed to meet the vesting criteria for the fifth year of his deal, becoming a free agent at age 37. Still, Correa had a very strong MLB tenure with Atlanta with 585 games, 640 hits, 359 runs, 104 doubles, 128 home runs, 366 RBI, a .293/.360/.534 slash, 141 wRC+, and 21.0 WAR.

Correa came back to Beisbol Sudamerica for 2010 on a three-year, $31,200,000 deal with Bogota. He struggled in his return season with 1.3 WAR, but bounced back in 2012 was 51 home runs, 141 RBI, and 4.5 WAR. Between two seasons for the Bats, Correa had 5.8 WAR, 305 hits, 188 runs, 46 doubles, 78 homers, 219 RBI, .883 OPS, and 127 wRC+. Bogota wasn’t competitive at this point and looked for trade value with Correa still under contract for a third year. In the offseason, he was shipped to Fortaleza for two prospects.

Now in his 40s, Correa had a remarkable renaissance with the Foxes, posting a .974 OPS, 173 wRC+, and 6.5 WAR in 2013. Fortaleza was a wild card at 96-66, but went on a tear and won Copa Sudamerica over Medellin. Correa was finals MVP with 19 hits, 7 runs, 3 homers, 13 RBI, and a 1.138 OPS over 13 playoff starts. He now had a pennant in both of BSA’s leagues and a cup win to go with it. Very pleased with the results, the Foxes gave Correa a three-year, $40,600,000 extension.

In 2014, Correa was the 17^th in BSA with 600 home runs and the 14^th to 1500 runs scored. He had 6.9 WAR, 41 homers, and a 1.020 OPS. Fortaleza repeated as Southern Cone champs at 104-58, but lost in a Copa Sudamerica rematch with Medellin. Correa couldn’t replicate the prior year’s playoff magic, struggling to -0.1 WAR and .612 OPS in 17 playoff starts.

Correa’s power numbers started to dip, but he was still a respectable starter for two more years in his early 40s for Fortaleza. The Foxes lost in the 2015 wild card round, then fell below .500 in 2016. Correa hit more milestones in his final two seasons, becoming the 10^th member of BSA’s 3000 hit club. Combined with his MLB numbers, Correa also reached 2000+ runs, 2000+ RBI, 3500+ hits, 800+ home runs, and 1000+ walks drawn.

With Fortaleza, Correa had 619 hits, 372 runs, 95 doubles, 139 home runs, 349 RBI, a .306/.365/.589 slash, 163 wRC+, and 20.7 WAR; remarkable stats considering they all came after his 40^th birthday. Correa hoped to still play somewhere in 2017 and participated in that year’s WBC for Ecuador. However, he couldn’t find any interested franchise and had to retire that winter at age 44.

Just in Beisbol Sudamerica, Correa finished with 2597 games, 3005 hits, 1767 runs, 477 doubles, 204 triples, 684 home runs, 1805 RBI, 944 walks, 884 stolen bases, a .314/.374/.621 slash, 163 wRC+, and 104.8 WAR. As of 2037, Correa ranks 20^th in hits, 7^th in runs, 8^th in total bases (5942), 25^th in doubles, 60^th in triples, 11^th in home runs, 9^th in RBI, 26^th in walks, 31^st in stolen bases, and 29^th in WAR among position players.

Among BSA batters with 3000+ plate appearances, Correa is 65^th in OBP, 20^th in slugging percentage, and 23^rd in OPS at .995. Those numbers were more than worthy on their own as a Hall of Fame headliner, but some wondered if Correa would’ve been in the BSA GOAT conversations had he not left for MLB. When looking at his combined totals, Correa likely would’ve had a solid shot at being BSA’s leader in runs, hits, doubles, and/or RBI.

Correa’s combined totals had 3182 games, 3645 hits, 2126 runs, 581 doubles, 223 triples, 812 home runs, 2171 RBI, 1168 walks, 980 stolen bases, a .310/.372/.604 slash, .976 OPS, 158 wRC+, and 125.8 WAR. As of 2037 among all world players, Correa ranks 44^th in games played, 19^th in runs scored, 32^nd in hits, 49^th in home runs, 31^st in RBI, and 22^nd in caught stealing.

Clearly, Correa was a special player who is on the short list of the true South American greats. He and fellow Guayaquil native Javier Herrera match up fairly evenly when discussing Ecuador’s greatest-ever player, although Correa has him narrowly beat in career WAR (125.8 vs 117.9). Correa was an impressive headliner at 97.6% in a strong three-player Hall of Fame class for BSA in 2022.

12-28-2024, 04:56 AM	#1924
FuzzyRussianHat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 2,895	2022 BSA Hall of Fame (Part 1) Beisbol Sudamerica’s 2022 Hall of Fame class was a rock solid three player group, each earning a first ballot nod with more than 85% of the vote. LF Hector Correa led the way at 97.6%, joined by OF Jomar Cardoso at 94.4% and SP Franco Rodriguez at 87.2%. The top returner was 3B Artemio Reyes with 54.6% on his sixth ballot, falling again short of the 66% requirement. No other players cracked 50% and none dropped off the ballot after ten failed attempts. Hector Correa – Left Field – Guayaquil Golds – 97.6% First Ballot Hector Correa was a 6’0’’, 200 pound switch-hitting left fielder from Guayaquil, Ecuador’s most populous city. Correa was a great contact hitter with very reliable home run power. He also had one of the better eyes for walks in South America, although his strikeout rate was unremarkable. Correa specifically thrived against right-handed pitching with a career 1.043 OPS and 174 wRC+. Against lefties, he was merely alright for his career with a career .762 OPS and 106 wRC+. Correa only led the league in home runs once, but he hit 40+ in 11 seasons and was usually good for 100+ RBI. Unlike your typical slugger, Correa had pretty good speed and was a highly skilled baserunner. That and his gap power meant he gave you 30 doubles and 11 triples over his 162 game average along with 41 homers. Correa was a scrappy sparkplug type with a tireless work ethic and great adaptability, making him a force to behold. Defensively, Correa played almost exclusively as a left fielder. On the whole he graded as being reliably average, but his stats were dragged down a bit by his final years. Correa won three Gold Gloves in his career, providing positive defensive value for a good chunk of his run. His durability was quite solid over a 21-year career, becoming one of the few to play 3000+ professional games. Correa’s skillset, longevity, and work ethic made him one of the biggest baseball superstars from South America in his era. Correa was also one of the biggest stars to ever come out of Ecuador, where he was especially beloved. He got to live out his childhood dream of starring for his hometown Guayaquil as the Golds picked him 10^th in the 1995 BSA Draft. Correa was a full-time starter immediately, but did struggle as a rookie. He had strikeout issues in his earliest years, leading in whiffs in his sophomore season at 195. Correa still had a solid 1997 campaign and by 1998 was winning his first Silver Slugger. 1998 also was Correa’s first of two times hitting for the cycle. 1999 was his first of six seasons leading the Bolivar League with an OPS above one. Correa surprisingly wasn’t an MVP finalist that year despite what would be a career best in WAR (10.6) and wRC+ (209). This was his lone year leading in walks and his first leading in OBP, slugging, and OPS. From 1999-06, Correa led in WAR four times, wRC+ five times, OPS six times, slugging five times, OBP four times, batting average twice, total bases five times, runs scored five times, and RBI twice. Correa won MVP and Silver Slugger honors in 2000 in his only season leading in home runs with 51. This also would be his career best in total bases (434). Although he didn’t lead again in homers, he did top that mark with 54 in 2001 and 53 in 2002. 2001 also had his career best 138 runs scored. After the 2001 season, the Golds extended him for $35,380,000 over eight years. Correa was the WARlord from 2000-02, winning three consecutive MVPs and Silver Sluggers. 2002 was also his first of three Gold Gloves, winning again in 2003 and 2004. In 2002, Correa won a batting title and led in the triple slash, posting his career bests in batting average (.376) and OBP (.436). He would drop off a bit with only 5.2 WAR in 2003, then bounced back for his fourth MVP in 2004. Correa again dipped slightly in 2005, but grabbed his fifth MVP and sixth Silver Slugger in 2006. That season was his fourth as the WARlord and had a career-best 142 RBI. Correa joined Valor Melo as the only players to win 5+ MVPs in Beisbol Sudamerica history to that point. After struggling most of the 1990s, Guayaquil returned to the playoffs with a divisional series exit in 2001. In 2002, Correa led his hometown to their second-ever Bolivar League pennant, although they were defeated by Brasilia in Copa Sudamerica. In 13 playoff starts, Correa had 13 hits, 10 runs, 4 homers, 7 RBI, and a .977 OPS. That helped forever solidify Correa’s position as a hometown icon in Guayaquil. Despite his personal successes, the Golds remained just outside of the playoffs for the remainder of his tenure. Correa was a national icon and represented Ecuador for his entire career, even after his pro contracts took him away from home. From 1997-2016, Correa played 177 games with 148 hits, 102 runs, 27 doubles, 47 home runs, 102 RBI, 49 stolen bases, a .229/.314/.498 slash, and 5.1 WAR. As of 2037, no one has played more games for Ecuador. Correa ranks fifth in WAR among position players, first in runs, first in hits, second in doubles, second in home runs, and second in RBI. His professional days with Guayaquil ended after the 2006 season with the soon-to-be 34 year-old Correa opting out of the remainder of his deal. With the Golds, Correa had 2081 hits, 1207 runs, 336 doubles, 160 triples, 467 home runs, 1237 RBI, 651 walks, 670 stolen bases, a .323/.384/.643 slash, 169 wRC+, and 78.3 WAR. He likely solidified a Hall of Fame career just with that, although he had another decade of baseball left. Guayaquil retired Correa’s #18 uniform at the end of his career. The allure of playing in Major League Baseball and the paycheck that came with that was hard to pass up for Correa. He signed a five-year, $61,500,000 deal with the Atlanta Aces. While never an awards candidate, Correa was a very good starter with 5+ WAR and 34+ homers in each of his first three years for Atlanta. They won a division title in 2007, but lost in the second round. The Aces would be above .500, but just outside of the playoffs for the rest of Correa’s tenure. In 2010, Correa missed six weeks between a sprained thumb and intercostal strain. He failed to meet the vesting criteria for the fifth year of his deal, becoming a free agent at age 37. Still, Correa had a very strong MLB tenure with Atlanta with 585 games, 640 hits, 359 runs, 104 doubles, 128 home runs, 366 RBI, a .293/.360/.534 slash, 141 wRC+, and 21.0 WAR. Correa came back to Beisbol Sudamerica for 2010 on a three-year, $31,200,000 deal with Bogota. He struggled in his return season with 1.3 WAR, but bounced back in 2012 was 51 home runs, 141 RBI, and 4.5 WAR. Between two seasons for the Bats, Correa had 5.8 WAR, 305 hits, 188 runs, 46 doubles, 78 homers, 219 RBI, .883 OPS, and 127 wRC+. Bogota wasn’t competitive at this point and looked for trade value with Correa still under contract for a third year. In the offseason, he was shipped to Fortaleza for two prospects. Now in his 40s, Correa had a remarkable renaissance with the Foxes, posting a .974 OPS, 173 wRC+, and 6.5 WAR in 2013. Fortaleza was a wild card at 96-66, but went on a tear and won Copa Sudamerica over Medellin. Correa was finals MVP with 19 hits, 7 runs, 3 homers, 13 RBI, and a 1.138 OPS over 13 playoff starts. He now had a pennant in both of BSA’s leagues and a cup win to go with it. Very pleased with the results, the Foxes gave Correa a three-year, $40,600,000 extension. In 2014, Correa was the 17^th in BSA with 600 home runs and the 14^th to 1500 runs scored. He had 6.9 WAR, 41 homers, and a 1.020 OPS. Fortaleza repeated as Southern Cone champs at 104-58, but lost in a Copa Sudamerica rematch with Medellin. Correa couldn’t replicate the prior year’s playoff magic, struggling to -0.1 WAR and .612 OPS in 17 playoff starts. Correa’s power numbers started to dip, but he was still a respectable starter for two more years in his early 40s for Fortaleza. The Foxes lost in the 2015 wild card round, then fell below .500 in 2016. Correa hit more milestones in his final two seasons, becoming the 10^th member of BSA’s 3000 hit club. Combined with his MLB numbers, Correa also reached 2000+ runs, 2000+ RBI, 3500+ hits, 800+ home runs, and 1000+ walks drawn. With Fortaleza, Correa had 619 hits, 372 runs, 95 doubles, 139 home runs, 349 RBI, a .306/.365/.589 slash, 163 wRC+, and 20.7 WAR; remarkable stats considering they all came after his 40^th birthday. Correa hoped to still play somewhere in 2017 and participated in that year’s WBC for Ecuador. However, he couldn’t find any interested franchise and had to retire that winter at age 44. Just in Beisbol Sudamerica, Correa finished with 2597 games, 3005 hits, 1767 runs, 477 doubles, 204 triples, 684 home runs, 1805 RBI, 944 walks, 884 stolen bases, a .314/.374/.621 slash, 163 wRC+, and 104.8 WAR. As of 2037, Correa ranks 20^th in hits, 7^th in runs, 8^th in total bases (5942), 25^th in doubles, 60^th in triples, 11^th in home runs, 9^th in RBI, 26^th in walks, 31^st in stolen bases, and 29^th in WAR among position players. Among BSA batters with 3000+ plate appearances, Correa is 65^th in OBP, 20^th in slugging percentage, and 23^rd in OPS at .995. Those numbers were more than worthy on their own as a Hall of Fame headliner, but some wondered if Correa would’ve been in the BSA GOAT conversations had he not left for MLB. When looking at his combined totals, Correa likely would’ve had a solid shot at being BSA’s leader in runs, hits, doubles, and/or RBI. Correa’s combined totals had 3182 games, 3645 hits, 2126 runs, 581 doubles, 223 triples, 812 home runs, 2171 RBI, 1168 walks, 980 stolen bases, a .310/.372/.604 slash, .976 OPS, 158 wRC+, and 125.8 WAR. As of 2037 among all world players, Correa ranks 44^th in games played, 19^th in runs scored, 32^nd in hits, 49^th in home runs, 31^st in RBI, and 22^nd in caught stealing. Clearly, Correa was a special player who is on the short list of the true South American greats. He and fellow Guayaquil native Javier Herrera match up fairly evenly when discussing Ecuador’s greatest-ever player, although Correa has him narrowly beat in career WAR (125.8 vs 117.9). Correa was an impressive headliner at 97.6% in a strong three-player Hall of Fame class for BSA in 2022. __________________ Baseball: The World's Game fictional world reports Continental Baseball Federation world reports (8-tier promotion/relegation sim and college feeder)