2111 hits, 398 HRs, a .265 lifetime batting average, and zero rings isn't going to cut it.
Not even close, in fact.
2 MVP awards (the only other eligible player to win back-to-back MVP awards who is not in the Hall is Roger Maris)
5 Gold Gloves
4 Silver Slugger awards
7 All-Star appearances
Led the major leagues in home runs AND RBIs over the 10-year span from 1981 to 1990
Led the National League in games, at bats, runs, hits, extra base hits, RBI, runs created, total bases, and plate appearances in the 1980s
Accomplished a 30-30 season in 1983, at the time only the 6th player since 1922 to do so.
Between 1981 and 1986, Murphy played in 740 consecutive games, at the time the 11th longest such streak in baseball history
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award: 1985
Roberto Clemente Award: 1988
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year: 1987
Named 49th Greatest Slugger of All-Time by The Sporting News (The Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers book, by Tony DeMarco, March 2000)
Before a home game against San Francisco, Murphy visited in the stands with Elizabeth Smith, a six-year-old girl who had lost both hands and a leg when she stepped on a live power line. After Murphy gave her a cap and a T shirt, her nurse innocently asked if he could hit a home run for Elizabeth. "I didn't know what to say, so I just sort of mumbled 'Well, O.K.,' " says Murphy. That day he hit two homers and drove in all the Braves' runs in a 3-2 victory.
I will still stack Murph's credentials up against almost anyone's.