Post Season Stats missing in Goose caption on MLB.com

MLB.com invites the reader to use only regular season stats in judging a player for the Hall of Fame in their article today about Goose Gossage. Post season stats should of course be included with--in the same sentence, not randomly sometime later in the article--career totals or should be included in a single figure of "lifetime" totals. Why would MLB.com deprive Gossage of his post season record?

• This kind of characterization happens often, meaning no one has chosen to correct the error. Why wouldn't a "Guardian of the Game" or "Conscience of the Game" do so?

A picture of Gossage appears with their article with the caption:

• "Pitcher Rich Gossage registered 124 wins and 310 saves in 22 Major League seasons. (MLB.com)"

Over time many will logically assume post season stats are just fringe.

• According to Baseball-Reference, Gossage in the post season had 31.1 IP

8 Postseason Ser      5-3  19   0   2.87  2  1  8  0  31.1

• So Gossage actually has 129 Wins and 318 saves. Will MLB.com give

Gossage the credit he deserves?

• Reference MLB.com article by Barry M. Bloom,"This Could
• Be the Year for Gossage," 1/4/08

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