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1) DiMaggio was only a glove specialist for about 5 of his 11 great seasons. Perhaps his reputation credits him for having been an elite fielder the whole time...the statistics do not.
2) Perhaps, once again, the voters, give him credit for wartime service, but numerically, you can't invent years that never existed. He's got 11 top notch years offensively. Not out of the range we're talking about. No, we're not suggesting that Gutierrez will be as good as DiMaggio...that would be very silly. We're suggesting, however, that a short period of greatness can and frequently does make someone HOF worthy without requiring that player to run 12+ years of concentrated MVP level stardum.