His 2,605 career hits led him to a career batting average of .294. His 808 stolen bases rank fifth all-time. A former batting champion, two-time World Series champion and one of the greatest leadoff hitters ever, he dominated the 1980s by putting together a five-year span in which he batted .318 with a WAR of 6.4 (and finished his career with a higher WAR than the Hall of Fame average), while averaging over 100 runs per year. Does this sound like Cooperstown credentials to you?
These are the numbers of former Yankee left fielder Tim Raines, who spent the majority of his career with the Expos and in the shadow of fellow speedster Rickey Henderson, who cruised into the Hall of Fame while Raines still makes his painstaking crawl towards Cooperstown.