Our All Time Top 50 Chicago Cubs have been revised to reflect the 2024 Season
48. Aramis Ramirez
Aramis Ramirez joined the Cubs as a mid-season trade from the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2003, and it was in the Windy City that the Dominican Third Baseman had his best run in Major League Baseball. Ramirez made history that year, helping the Cubs make the playoffs, where he smacked the first post-season Grand Slam in team history. Chicago fell to the Marlins in the NLCS, but Ramirez proved he was there to lead the team with his bat.
Playing with the Cubs until 2011, Ramirez had seven 25 Home Run plus years, including three 30-plus years from 2004 to 2006. An All-Star twice with the Cubs (2005 & 2008), Ramirez twice finished tenth for the National League MVP in both All-Star years.
Ramirez left Chicago for Milwaukee via free agency and had 1,246 Hits and 239 Home Runs.
If I Had a Vote in the 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame Election
Is this the year Curt Schilling makes it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame? Will Schilling be the only player elected to the Hall this year? After all the tumultuous voting activity of the 2010s, has voting for the Hall returned to "normal"?
Only a crystal ball, or the patience to wait until voting results for the 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame are announced on January 26, 2021, can give us the definitive answers, but of course that doesn't stop us from prognosticating before we learn the results.
For now, the short answers are:
1. Maybe.
2. Possibly.
3. Likely.
2021 BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot: Executive Summary
Aramis Ramirez
Aramis Ramirez Retires
Ramirez leaves the game with some impressive accolades. He was a three time All Star, a one time Silver Slugger and would finish in the top ten in MVP voting three times. Statistically, he leaves the game with 386 Home Runs and 2,303 Hits and led the National League in Doubles in 2012. He would play his entire career in the National League, beginning (and ending) his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates with lengthy stints with the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers along the way.
We always ask the question here at Notinhalloffame.com when we have a retirement as to whether that said player is HOF caliber. While Ramirez had a very good career, his numbers, especially poor defense resulting in a career bWAR of 32.1 isn’t one that will cut it in the modern thought process, and he will struggle to gain more than a handful of votes in 2021, the first year that he becomes Hall of Fame eligible.
While Aramis Ramirez has completed his service to Major League Baseball, he will do a farewell tour in his native Dominican Republic playing for Tigres del Licey in the Dominican Winter League.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Aramis Ramirez the best of luck in his post-MLB career.