Certain milestones can put a player into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Those minimums have evolved. Starting pitchers no longer win the same number of games they used to. Someone reaching 3,000 hits is almost unheard of. Even 500 home runs in a career is an absurd amount. Several former New York Mets players have been drastically overlooked when it came to the Hall of Fame. One of the most disrespected is David Cone.
Cone has a complicated legacy with the Mets. Stolen from the Kansas City Royals in a trade, he blossomed into a star in 1988.