Who deserves to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? On your ballot, please vote for no more than 10 different players. And please--no write-in votes (sorry, Pete).
Bert Blyleven
Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Larry Walker
Edgar Martinez
Alan Trammell
Kevin Brown
Tim Raines
Roberto Alomar
Mark McGwire
John Olerud
Fred McGriff
Dale Murphy
Don Mattingly
Jack Morris
Al Leiter
Dave Parker
Harold Baines
Lee Smith
John Franco
Who deserves to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? On your ballot, please vote for no more than 10 different players. And please--no write-in votes (sorry, Pete).
Last edited by camisadelgolf; 11-30-2010 at 10:05 AM.
Is it safe to assume that if someone doesn't vote for Bagwell, it's due to allegations of cheating?
Chip, I'm just curious--why did you pick John Franco over Lee Smith?
Hmmm ... no Rafael Palmeiro or Juan Gonzalez. Such a shame.
And I was really looking forward to voting for Dan Wilson.
It's the last year on the ballot for Parker so I imagine he'll see a bump in votes that still won't be nearly enough to get him into the HOF.
It's criminal to me that Jack Morris is getting more votes than Kevin Brown.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...orrija02.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...rownke01.shtml
I guess this is another case of homerism since Jack Morris once signed a contract with the Reds.
Last edited by camisadelgolf; 11-30-2010 at 11:06 AM.
For what it's worth, this is how the holdovers did on last years ballot:
Code:Year % on of Player Ballot vote Bert Blyleven 13th 74.2% Roberto Alomar 1st 73.7% Jack Morris 11th 52.3% Barry Larkin 1st 51.6% Lee Smith 8th 47.3% Edgar Martinez 1st 36.2% Tim Raines 3rd 30.4% Mark McGwire 4th 23.7% Alan Trammell 9th 22.4% Fred McGriff 1st 21.5% Don Mattingly 10th 16.1% Dave Parker 14th 15.2% Dale Murphy 12th 11.7% Harold Baines 4th 6.1%
OR maybe it's just because Morris is more likely to get the votes. The Hall of Fame Monitor* (it's at the bottom of both of those player pages) for Morris is 122 while it's 93 for Brown.
* This measure attempts to determine how likely a player is to be elected. It is a rough scale with over 100 likely and under 100 less likely.
Last edited by redsfandan; 11-30-2010 at 11:21 AM.
I voted for the ones I feel should be absolute locks: Larkin, Blyleven, and Raines. I can see arguments for several others but those three stand out the most to me.
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I voted for Alomar, Bagwell, Blyleven, Larkin, and Edgar Martinez. I meant to vote for Tim Raines too but I clicked the submit button too soon.
nemesis is the only person not to vote for Larkin. What gives, nemesis?
Yeara ago in my mind I placed Dave Parker and Dale Murphy in a group with Jim Rice and Andre Dawson. They were contemporaries, all played the outfield, each won a MVP award (Murphy had two), each lead his league in RBI at least once, three of the four were home run champions while Parker compensated with a pair of batting titles, and all four were borderline HOF candidates.
There are worse outfielders in the HOF than these four, but their qualifications for the honor are not overwhelming. Among the four I could not decide than one was particularly more qualified for the honor than the other three.
I do not favor the game of since the HOF inducted Fred Lindstrom as a third baseman let's induct Darrell Evans, or since the HOF inducted Lloyd Waner let's induct Vada Pinson. Yes, Evans and Pinson were better players than were Lindstrom and Waner, but they were from different eras and the mistakes made with Lindstrom and Waner being inducted does not persuade me to let Evans and Pinson in.
However, in the case of Parker and Murphy, the HOF in its wisdom has decided to induct two of their direct contemporaries, and I cannot say that Dawson and Rice were better players than Parker and Murphy (none of the four were as good as another contemporary outfielder, Tim Raines). Therefore I am voting to induct Parker and Murphy this time around.
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