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Expand The Hall Of Fame Ballot And Solve The Edgar Martinez Problem
Every Hall of Fame voting season, a few narratives get beaten into the ground. What to do about steroids. What to do about the 10-year rule designed to screw over steroid guys. What about the war over WAR? But here’s one argument that still deserves to be used as a bludgeon against the BBWAA: The 1...
Hall Of Fame Vote Projections Are Taking Shape, And It Could Be A Big Class Of 2018
Dec. 31 was the deadline for BBWAA members to put their Hall of Fame ballots in the mail, which means the 2018 inductees are fixed—we just won’t know who they are until the ballots are counted and then announced on Jan. 24. But we can predict, and with more and more media members announcing their vo...
Please Stop These Bad Hall Of Fame Arguments
It’s fair to say that baseball’s Hall of Fame is relatively meaningless and therefore any argument about its membership is fundamentally kind of stupid; that does not preclude some of those arguments from being stupider than others. There are any number of arguments here—specifically about given pla...
Alan Trammell Wins Long Overdue Election To Hall Of Fame<em></em>
It took over 15 years of waiting, but Alan Trammell is finally in the Baseball Hall of Fame. With 13 out of 16 votes, the Modern Baseball Era committee chose the longtime Detroit Tigers shortstop to finally gain entrance to Cooperstown, after never getting more than 37% on the traditional writers’ b...
Joe Morgan Doesn't Think Willie Mays Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of directors—sent an email today from the general Hall of Fame email address to current voters, arguing (among other things) that drug users like Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle s...
A More Honest Version Of Bud Selig's Hall Of Fame Induction Video
The Baseball Hall of Fame traditionally airs a “highlight reel” of its inductees at the annual ceremony before the newly enshrined deliver an address to those in attendance. We found yesterday’s tribute film to former commissioner Bud Selig to be a bit lacking, so we produced a more honest version....
Which Baseball Legends Had Two Separate Hall-Of-Fame Careers?
When discussing Rickey Henderson’s Hall-of-Fame prospects, Bill James once wrote that “if you could split him in two, you’d have two Hall of Famers.” It’s a seemingly hyperbolic quip from one of sports’ most precise thinkers. So it’s probably worth a closer look....
Here Is Your 2017 Baseball Hall Of Fame Class
Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s diligent ballot tracking, we already knew that Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines (thank God) were going into the Hall of Fame this year. Now that all of the ballots have been counted, we can see if anyone else will be joining them....
Tim Raines And Jeff Bagwell Look Like Locks To Make The Hall Of Fame Tonight
Finally, mercifully, the period of speculation about who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year will come to an end. ...
Columnist Attempts To Abstain From Hall Of Fame Vote, Submits Blank Ballot Instead
The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Bill Livingston wrote a grandstanding column today about his decision to forgo participating in this year’s baseball Hall of Fame vote. There’s, uh, one big problem with his column:...
Yes, More Hall Of Fame Projections, Give Them To Me
It is impossible for me to get enough Baseball Hall of Fame shit. News, analysis, debate—give it all to me. Hook it to my veins....
Curt Schilling Digs Hole Deeper
Curt Schilling, who is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame but would be a first-ballot pick for the Meme Curator Hall of Fame, talked to TMZ Sports about how he probably won’t be elected this year and continued to hurt his chances for the future....
Baseball Hall Of Fame Voting Is Fascinating Right Now
Dec. 31 is the deadline for BBWAA members to submit their Hall of Fame ballots, and nearly one third of them have already made their ballots public. And here’s a hell of a thing: Probably not this year, but Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will make the Hall of Fame within a couple of years....
This Strange Column About Bud Selig And Drugs Is Extremely Confusing
Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall of Fame shows up the condemnation of players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens by the likes of the veteran baseball writers who have refused to vote them into the Hall of Fame for ...
Curt Schilling Should Be In The Hall Of Fame
As of this morning, Ryan Thibodaux’s invaluable Hall of Fame election tracker has the results of 44 ballots up, representing about a tenth the total number of ballots expected to be cast by veteran baseball writers this year. It’s a skewed and self-selecting sample—writers who make their ballot publ...
Hall Of Fame Voter Who Wants To Fight Curt Schilling Gives Up Hall Of Fame Vote
God, it’s “Get worked up about shitty Hall of Fame takes” season again. Every year I go in feeling optimistic—Oh, maybe my guy will get in this year!—and by mid-December I’d rather pull out my fingernails one by one than look at yet another goddamn ballot with two bewildering selections on it. ...
This Guy's Hall Of Fame Ballot Is Art
Take a second and think back to some of the highest artistic achievements you’ve seriously engaged with—The Brothers Karamazov, Mingus Ah Um, The General, whatever—and fix them in your mind, thinking about how they expanded your sense of human possibility. Now consider baseball Hall of Fame voter St...
Baseball Writers Vote To Stop Keeping Hall Of Fame Votes Secret
In a major victory for those of us who believe journalists should practice the transparency they seek from others, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America has voted to make all Hall of Fame ballots public starting next year....
Baseball Hall Of Fame Votes In Bud Selig And John Schuerholz
Former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and executive John Schuerholz will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2017 after they were voted in by the Eras Committee today....
Ken Griffey Jr. Ended His Hall Of Fame Speech The Best Way Possible
In case you’ve forgotten, Ken Griffey Jr.’s preference for wearing his cap backward infuriated old white columnists—and managers—of the day. So the manner in which The Kid ended his Hall of Fame acceptance speech today in Cooperstown was simply priceless....