Rob Neyer notes that Wade Boggs deserves a Cooperstown spot despite the fact that no one ever gets really excited about Boggs:
If you’d like to knock him down a peg or two because he wasn’t always considered the teamest of team players, feel free. But it’s still fairly difficult to construct a reasonable argument that Boggs isn’t one of the five or six greatest third basemen ever. (link - it’s Insider Only, but Neyer’s main point can be seen in the few paras they let us outsiders read)
Clearly Boggs was great, if unexciting (as Neyer notes). The only danger is that the HoF is particularly treacherous for 2Bs and 3Bs - Ron Santo Ron Santo Ron Santo - and they seem to think that a 3B needs to play like Schmidt or Brett (yeah, only 2 of the 3 best ever, that’s easy) even though the standards for other positions are weaker. Still, I think Boggs should get in, easy.