Andruw Jones
Like Hernandez, Jones is a plausible HOF candidate thanks to his elite peak seasons, subject to all the attendant plusses and minuses.
The plusses can be summed up neatly. There is general agreement that, at his best, Jones played center field as well as anybody in baseball history.
He was a 10-time Gold Glover, a five-time All Star, and a key piece on a team that won nine straight division titles between 1997 and 2005.
Lest you think otherwise, Jones was not merely a defensive wizard. In 2005, he hit 51 home runs and drove in 128 runs, both league-leading totals, finishing second in MVP voting. That 2005 season was his second .900+ OPS season (2000).
However, Jones plainly stayed around too long after his skills had eroded. From 2007 through his 2012 retirement, he batted .213 while shuffling through five uniform changes trying to regain the magic of his youth.
That long, slow decline dropped his career batting average to an un-Hall like .254, part of the reason why Jones hasn’t gotten higher than 61 percent support in his seven previous seasons as a candidate.