It’s been a few weeks since our last Friday Funday entry, so we’re here today with another look at fun MLB player’s career: second baseman Willie Randolph. We posit he should be in the Hall of Fame with his 66.0 career WAR mark and his sabermetric positional ranking (16th). He was a six-time All Star when that sort of thing had meaning, and he also played for five AL pennant winners and two World Series champions.

In his only year on the Hall of Fame ballot (1998), he earned just 1.1 percent of the vote and was dropped forever from the process—which makes no sense to us today. He earned 20.2 dWAR in his career and certainly should have won a few Gold Gloves, though he never did. Randolph topped the American League in walks once (119 BBs in 1980, while striking out just 45 times and hitting .294 overall). He’s underrated!

His first All-Star season came in 1976 with the New York Yankees at age 21 when he posted 5.0 WAR for the AL East Division champions, and his last All-Star nod came in 1989 with the Los Angeles Dodgers at age 34 when he earned 4.1 WAR. But Randolph was not done: in 1991 with the Milwaukee Brewers at age 36, he still was good enough to put up 4.3 WAR. His 18-season career is full of little achievements like this that look big.

He broke into the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates, playng 30 games for them in 1975 before being traded to the Yankees for—get this—starting pitcher Doc Medich. From 1976-1981 with New York, Randolph made four All-Star teams (1976-1977, 1980-1981) and helped the Yankees win four AL pennants (1976–1978, 1981) and two World Series (1977-1978), although he was unable to play in the 1978 postseason due to injury. Wow!

Never mind that Medich lasted just one season with the Pirates before bouncing around the majors with five more teams through 1982: Randolph was one of the best younger players in the game by the time the Yankees lost the 1981 World Series. That was his age-26 season, and the sky was the limit. Alas, Randolph would make the All-Star team just one more time in a New York uniform (1987) before leaving the Yankees.

He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in 1989, as the team was coming off its own World Series title in 1988. Yet after an All-Star season with L.A., the team traded him to the Oakland Athletics in May 1990 for outfielder Stan Javier. Randolph then helped Oakland win its third straight AL pennant that season. Overall, he played in 47 postseason games in his illustrious career, although he didn’t hit very well.

The career 104 OPS+ mark doesn’t jump off the page, either, but he did hit .327 in 1991 with the Brewers at age 36 before finishing his career in 1992 with the New York Mets. The best years of his career came with the Yankees, where he compiled 54.0 WAR in 13 seasons, although he was serviceable enough to the Dodgers, the A’s, and the Brewers in the twilight years of his career. His prime years were stellar, really, as shown.

He is a little “below average” compared to the 20 second baseman already in the Hall of Fame, but that just means his No. 16 ranking at the position all time means he should be in Cooperstown—since 20 guys at his position are already in the Hall. This is simple math, and it’s surprising no one has noticed this (yet?). Well, not no one, of course, but … he really deserves to be there, so more people should take notice ASAP. Fact.