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2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:32 pm
by Vandal
First-timers:
Mark Buehrle
AJ Burnett
Michael Cuddyer
Dan Haren
LaTroy Hawkins
Tim Hudson
Torii Hunter
Aramis Ramirez
Nick Swisher
Shane Victorino
Barry Zito

Returners (Ballot#):
Bobby Abreu (2nd)
Barry Bonds (9th)
Roger Clemens (9th)
Andruw Jones (4th)
Todd Helton (3rd)
Jeff Kent (8th)
Andy Pettitte (3rd)
Manny Ramirez (5th)
Curt Schilling (9th)
Scott Rolen (4th)
Gary Sheffield (7th)
Sammy Sosa (9th)
Billy Wagner (6th)
Omar Vizquel (4th)

Re: 2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:39 pm
by Bob78164
I'm guessing that maybe three of the first-timers survive to see a second year on the ballot: Buehrle, Burnett, and Hunter. Except for Bonds and Clemens, who won't get in, there are no obvious candidates to make the Hall this year. Schilling, Kent, and Jones maybe. --Bob

Re: 2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 8:07 am
by Vandal
Given the weak rookie field, this may be the year Schilling gets past his post-retirement wackiness and gets in. Postseason success counts more now than in previous decades.

Re: 2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:39 am
by T_Bone0806
Tim Hudson may survive his first year on the ballot as well.

Career record: 222-133, 3.49 ERA.

Maybe not quite worthy of anything past a "Hall of Very Good", but certainly, in my opinion, worthy of getting enough votes to stick around for at least another year.

Re: 2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:47 pm
by littlebeast13
T_Bone0806 wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:39 am
Tim Hudson may survive his first year on the ballot as well.

Career record: 222-133, 3.49 ERA.

Maybe not quite worthy of anything past a "Hall of Very Good", but certainly, in my opinion, worthy of getting enough votes to stick around for at least another year.

Semi-major pet peeve of mine, and nothing to do with TBone, because a LOT of baseball people use the term, but.....

How does one get "Hall of Very Good" out of "Hall of Fame?" I think people confuse the name of the institution as the Hall of Great, and it's not. The analytics nerds love to throw that term around when they're using something like WAR as an end-all for evaluation a player's worthiness of being in the Hall....

Remember that.... it's the Hall of FAME!

(Bonus non-peeve fun fact: Tim Hudson is a day younger than me)

lb13

Re: 2021 Baseball HoF Ballot

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:38 pm
by T_Bone0806
littlebeast13 wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:47 pm
T_Bone0806 wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:39 am
Tim Hudson may survive his first year on the ballot as well.

Career record: 222-133, 3.49 ERA.

Maybe not quite worthy of anything past a "Hall of Very Good", but certainly, in my opinion, worthy of getting enough votes to stick around for at least another year.

Semi-major pet peeve of mine, and nothing to do with TBone, because a LOT of baseball people use the term, but.....

How does one get "Hall of Very Good" out of "Hall of Fame?" I think people confuse the name of the institution as the Hall of Great, and it's not. The analytics nerds love to throw that term around when they're using something like WAR as an end-all for evaluation a player's worthiness of being in the Hall....

Remember that.... it's the Hall of FAME!

(Bonus non-peeve fun fact: Tim Hudson is a day younger than me)

lb13
Yeah, it's just a shortcut term, for lack of a better one, for someone you want to give respect to as a really solid player in his day, but who doesn't belong with the elite ones.

And for the record, I hate the analytics crap. I still don't quite get WAR and don't care...and I certainly don't care about the difference in performance when a guy has Wheaties for breakfast as opposed to a bowl of Frosted Flakes.

We are just a couple of steps away from releasing all the players and having teams represented by a couple of folks looking like Robert Carradine in Revenge of the Nerds playing Strat-o-Matic.