Lee Smith and Harold Baines elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

I'm with the others on here about Baines, but it's funny when you look at his numbers, they are almost perfectly aligned with another HOFer in Tony Perez. I never saw Perez play so I can't speak of his defensive prowess, and he seems to have a reputation as being a "clutch" guy for the Big Red Machines teams of the 70s. But going by the stats alone, here's a guy who never once led the league in any statistical category other than in 1980 when he led the league in grounding into double plays. His highest finish in MVP voting was 3 in 1970, with another 7th and 8th place finish in there among his career achievements. He got voted in by the writers in 2000, which looks like it was his second-to-last year of eligibility.

Again, I don't know much about Perez as he's before my time but just going by the stat sheet, he and Baines are basically carbon copies of one another, but for the fact that Baines was a DH and Perez wasn't.