A week after Jeff Bagwell arrived in the Astros' spring training camp and said he doesn't expect to get elected to the Hall of Fame, his longtime teammate, newly elected Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, said he disagrees.

"He's a Hall of Famer to me," Biggio said Monday of Bagwell. "I played next to that guy for 14, 15 years. He's a good friend. And you just look at what his numbers were offensively and defensively, the way that he played the game. He's a Hall of Famer to me.

"Just look at it," Biggio said. "As far as first basemen in the Hall of Fame, he's the only guy that has ever done 30 [homers]-30 [steals], not once, but he did it twice. And that's pretty impressive."