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Tim Raines, baseball’s second greatest leadoff-hitter, deserves HOF nod

Raines may have played just 58 games with the Oakland Athletics in 1999 prior to being diagnosed with lupus and missing the rest of the season while undergoing treatment, but he is also considered by many to be the second best leadoff hitter in baseball history after another famous member of the Oakland Athletics, Rickey Henderson.

Rickey is an impossible player to live up to. He is one of the greatest of all-time. Being seen as second to Henderson may as well be being seen as being the best.

Rickey is untouchable, but does that mean that Raines doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame?