2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are out
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2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are out
Jeter might make it. Anyone else?
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I think Jeter makes it. Schilling and Walker have shots at it. Voters are getting more acceptable on Bonds and Clemens so I think they have outside shots.
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Wait for it....
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I was surprised to see Chone Figgins on the list. Don't get me wrong, I loved watching him with the Angels for years, and he had some outstanding moments/records with them, but Hall of Fame? Did he go on to massive success elsewhere after leaving the Angels?
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I thought that pretty much anyone who completed 10 years of service found themselves on the ballot, but it turns out there's a six-member screening committee. It takes two votes from that committee to get onto the ballot in the first place. --BobEstonut wrote:I was surprised to see Chone Figgins on the list. Don't get me wrong, I loved watching him with the Angels for years, and he had some outstanding moments/records with them, but Hall of Fame? Did he go on to massive success elsewhere after leaving the Angels?
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Bob78164 wrote:I thought that pretty much anyone who completed 10 years of service found themselves on the ballot, but it turns out there's a six-member screening committee. It takes two votes from that committee to get onto the ballot in the first place. --BobEstonut wrote:I was surprised to see Chone Figgins on the list. Don't get me wrong, I loved watching him with the Angels for years, and he had some outstanding moments/records with them, but Hall of Fame? Did he go on to massive success elsewhere after leaving the Angels?
Supposedly, the committee took a lot of grief over some glaring omissions from the ballot in recent years (namely Javier Vazquez, who via advanced stats, is considered a borderline HoF candidate)... and thus have been nominating many more players who met the ten season rule than in past ballots so nobody's favorites get overlooked again...
Jose Valverde's inclusion on the list makes me feel really old, and anyone who's been in the BBBL will know why...
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Players must be named on at least 5% of the ballots to be included in the following year, so there are a lot of one-and-dones, and the ballot doesn't get too unwieldy.littlebeast13 wrote: Supposedly, the committee took a lot of grief over some glaring omissions from the ballot in recent years (namely Javier Vazquez, who via advanced stats, is considered a borderline HoF candidate)... and thus have been nominating many more players who met the ten season rule than in past ballots so nobody's favorites get overlooked again...
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silverscreenselect wrote:Players must be named on at least 5% of the ballots to be included in the following year, so there are a lot of one-and-dones, and the ballot doesn't get too unwieldy.littlebeast13 wrote: Supposedly, the committee took a lot of grief over some glaring omissions from the ballot in recent years (namely Javier Vazquez, who via advanced stats, is considered a borderline HoF candidate)... and thus have been nominating many more players who met the ten season rule than in past ballots so nobody's favorites get overlooked again...
I was referring to just getting on the ballot the first time. The ballot's become more and more a who's who of players who retired five seasons ago than it used to be...
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Re: 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are out
littlebeast13 wrote:.........(namely Javier Vazquez, who via advanced stats, is considered a borderline HoF candidate)......
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We Yankee fans have a rather....ummmm...dissenting viewpoint on that particular notion...
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kroxquo wrote:I think Jeter makes it. Schilling and Walker have shots at it. Voters are getting more acceptable on Bonds and Clemens so I think they have outside shots.
Jeter will likely get in unanimously (and rightly so), since the precedent has been set. I'm sure we'll see more unanimous votes in the future because gone are the "old guard" baseball writers who would never let anyone get in unanimously because, "hey, Ted Williams (or Mickey Mantle or--insert great player from past) never got in unanimously!"
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Jeter is in, but I don't think it will be unanimous. There's going to be some writers who feel that a unanimous selection requires some higher standard than an "ordinary" induction, and Jeter doesn't quite fit that criteria the way Rivera did.Vandal wrote:kroxquo wrote:I think Jeter makes it. Schilling and Walker have shots at it. Voters are getting more acceptable on Bonds and Clemens so I think they have outside shots.
Jeter will likely get in unanimously (and rightly so), since the precedent has been set. I'm sure we'll see more unanimous votes in the future because gone are the "old guard" baseball writers who would never let anyone get in unanimously because, "hey, Ted Williams (or Mickey Mantle or--insert great player from past) never got in unanimously!"
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Rivera has the numbers. Jeter has the legend.silverscreenselect wrote:Jeter is in, but I don't think it will be unanimous. There's going to be some writers who feel that a unanimous selection requires some higher standard than an "ordinary" induction, and Jeter doesn't quite fit that criteria the way Rivera did.Vandal wrote:kroxquo wrote:I think Jeter makes it. Schilling and Walker have shots at it. Voters are getting more acceptable on Bonds and Clemens so I think they have outside shots.
Jeter will likely get in unanimously (and rightly so), since the precedent has been set. I'm sure we'll see more unanimous votes in the future because gone are the "old guard" baseball writers who would never let anyone get in unanimously because, "hey, Ted Williams (or Mickey Mantle or--insert great player from past) never got in unanimously!"
Ask any Yankees fan (of which I am not one).
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