Johan Santana Elected To Twins Hall of Fame

My favorite Twins Pitcher of All Time

He was worth the price of admission by himself on days he pitched.

He won the American League Cy Young Award in 2004 and 2006, and he should have won it in 2005 as well. 

Those 05' voting results are indefensible. It's still hard to look at Johan's numbers vs. the field that season. Im not sure if he would've made the HOF even with 3 straight Cy Young awards, but I doubt he'd be below 5% of the vote. 

8/23/2005 was one of my favorite Santana victories.

Congrats to Johan and well deserved.

 

Not having Knoblauch in the Twins' HOF is a travesty.

Times change, what happened off the field matters.

I always wondered "what if" he ahd remained a Twin. Back then, it was a $120 million 7-year deal for the guy. Should the Twins have grabbed at it? Did Johan really feel being on a bigger stage was more important then being the biggest fish in a small pond? Kudos that the Twins will add this guy to their Hall of Fame.

Now, Al Worthington, another worthy candidate.........

I always wondered "what if" he ahd remained a Twin. Back then, it was a $120 million 7-year deal for the guy. Should the Twins have grabbed at it? Did Johan really feel being on a bigger stage was more important then being the biggest fish in a small pond? Kudos that the Twins will add this guy to their Hall of Fame.

 

Now, Al Worthington, another worthy candidate.........

Santana and a few others openly questioned management when they sold at the trade deadline in 2007 instead of buying.  Selling at the deadline was an odd move considering they had won the division 4 out of the previous 5 seasons. He asked why should he stay if the team was always going to look to the future and not help the team when it was time.  Nothing to do with the big stage and everything to do with Santana feeling like management was content to just compete for division titles.

Should have won three consecutive Cy Young awards. A giant f you to the writers who voted for Colon because he had more wins. 

Should have won three consecutive Cy Young awards. A giant f you to the writers who voted for Colon because he had more wins.

Why is Puckett still there then?

The issue is getting in. If you want to start a debate about removing people go ahead.  If you want to argue standards for persons vary on situation I would agree. Just look at people's voting habits in politics.

Knoblauch is in the Twins' Hall of Fame... he just didn't have a ceremony. But he is a Twins Hall of Famer.

According to mlb.com, he's not.

And according to twinstrivia.com, he was elected, but not inducted, and is not a member of the Twins HOF. Fox Sports and Strib says the same.

Twinkie Town says this:

Update: It's been confirmed that it's not just the ceremony, it's also his actual placement in the Twins Hall of Fame.

Do you have a link or source for anything that says he's actually in?

Nope, all I have is the press release, which says he's elected, but not inducted... So, i mean, it's just verbiage.

You have to be inducted to be in. Induction does not just mean ceremony. Induction is the process of officially adding an electee to the hall.

He's not in the Twins HOF.