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2019 Hall of Fame ballot

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2019 Hall of Fame ballot  

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  1. 1. 2019 Hall of Fame ballot

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      22
    • Rick Ankiel (first year)
      0
    • Jason Bay (first year)
      0
    • Lance Berkman (first year)
      3
    • Barry Bonds (7th year, 56.4% in 2018)
      13
    • Roger Clemens (7th year, 57.3%)
      8
    • Freddy Garcia (first year)
      0
    • Jon Garland (first year)
      0
    • Travis Hafner (first year)
      0
    • Roy Halladay (first year)
      16
    • Todd Helton (first year)
      7
    • Andruw Jones (2nd year, 7.3%)
      4
    • Jeff Kent (6th year, 14.5%)
      9
    • Ted Lilly (first year)
      0
    • Derek Lowe (first year)
      0
    • Edgar Martinez (10th year, 70.4%)
      12
    • Fred McGriff (10th year, 23.2%)
      3
    • Mike Mussina (6th year, 63.5%)
      11
    • Darren Oliver (first year)
      0
    • Roy Oswalt (first year)
      1
    • Andy Pettitte (first year)
      0
    • Juan Pierre (first year)
      0
    • Placido Polanco (first year)
      0
    • Manny Ramirez (3rd year, 22%)
      11
    • Mariano Rivera (first year)
      18
    • Scott Rolen (2nd year, 10.2%)
      3
    • Curt Schilling (6th year, 51.2%)
      10
    • Gary Sheffield (5th year, 11.1%)
      4
    • Sammy Sosa (7th year, 7.8%)
      3
    • Miguel Tejada (first year)
      1
    • Omar Vizquel (2nd year, 37.1%)
      6
    • Billy Wagner (4th year, 11.1%)
      4
    • Larry Walker (9th year, 34.1%)
      15
    • Vernon Wells (first year)
      0
    • Kevin Youkilis (first year)
      0
    • Michael Young (first year)
      0

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I went for Berkman. He could have tacked on a few more sunset years to pad the totals, but he was incorrigibly productive.


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
yes:
Bonds
Clemens
Halladay
Mussina
M.Ramirez
Rivera
Schilling
Sosa
Walker

[yikes! what a class of A-holes, Roiders and Yankmees!]

maybe/borderline:
Helton
Rolen
Wagner

probably not:
Berkman
Jones
Kent
McGriff
Pettitte
Sheffield
M.Tejada
Vizquel

no:
Ankiel
Bay
F.Garcia
Garland
Hafner
Lowe
Oswalt
Pierre
polanco
V.wells
Youklis
M.Young


Undecided on Martinez?


oops. oversight. No, he's definitely on my ballot, no indecision there.


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Crap, it's unanimous so far for Rivera:
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And as far as we're concerned "Doc" means Gooden.


Edgy MD FCL Mets

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How do you like that patience paying off for Mussina? He's gone 20.3% (2014), 24.6% (2015), 43.0% (2016), 51.8% (2017), and 63.5% (2018).

He's also unjustly on the outside looking in when it comes to the Orioles' garden of retired numbers.

I think there is residual bitterness in Baltimore from him jumping to the Yankees, but he was a heckuva pitcher. He may be the last guy ever to win 20 games in his final season.


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I'm for Bonds getting in. Clemens too, I guess. I don't want Rivera to get 100% but the current standings aren't terrible.


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G-Fafif

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Should 100% happen, prepare for variations on these ledes:

Leave it to the best closer baseball has ever seen to slam the door on one of the silliest customs in Hall of Fame voting history.


He dominated ninth innings like no relief pitcher before him and now he has retired precedent in order.


Everybody knew he was the greatest. Now everybody has said so.


The eternal Yankee dynasty has added another crown to its reign, and it's one not even the fiercest Red Sox loyalist could argue against.


An industry that watched Mariano Rivera with awe responded the only way it could -- unanimously.


And next year:

Percentage of vote doesn't begin to describe the transcendence of Derek Jeter. He gave 100% on his worst day. Not that he had any of those.


Edgy MD FCL Mets

Edgy MD

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And these ledes will be stopped at editing:

Mariano Rivera has made a lot of history, none so momentous as his blown save against the Red Sox in 2004 starting the transformation of a robotic Yankee sweep into baseball's greatest comeback and the Red Sox ending of the longest championship drought in baseball history. Now he will forever be recorded as part of that history.


Panamanians were electrified by the news of Mariano Rivera's election to the Hall of Fame.


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Edgy MD wrote:

Panamanians were electrified by the news of Mariano Rivera's election to the Hall of Fame.


He will be the first Panamanian-born pitcher in the HOF and second overall to Rod Carew (who interestingly was born on a train traveling through the Panama Canal Zone).


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Were there hiccups? Unlikely imperfections? Stutter steps that ever so briefly sidetracked a gait that carried the closer sure and true through the gates of Cooperstown earning the cheers of immortals like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle? A few, perhaps, but since it was Rivera, it can be resolutely declared that the rare Yankee triumph that slipped through Mariano's otherwise sure fingers could not be classified a setback, for even when a note was dropped in Rivera's Ninth Symphony, losing was still unheard of. In memory, every pitch was a strike, every call was an out, every result made John Sterling the most accurate reporter working in any media. Thuuuuuh Yankees win! And the save inevitably goes to Mo.

No wonder it was unanimous. It couldn't have been anything but.


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Edgy MD wrote:
Panamanians were electrified by the news of Mariano Rivera's election to the Hall of Fame.


Bring back the BOC for that one!

Later


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HahnSolo

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Probably because he hasn’t actually gotten a look at the ballot. At this point it’s second hand.

He’s not ignoring it. That’s his tweet in the article.


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Boston sportswriter Bill Ballou wants to have his cake and eat it, too. He decides he doesn't value closers and wouldn't vote for Rivera. But he also doesn't want to be the one who costs him a shot at a unanimous ballot, so he's not going to vote at all.

https://www.telegram.com/news/20181222/bill-ballou-mariano-rivera-not-getting-this-writers-hall-of-fame-vote

Last year he voted for five players: PED tainted Clemens, Bonds and Manny Ramirez plus Chipper and Vlad. But didn't think Jim Thome's untainted 600+ homers were worthy.


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Bill Ballou could be a hero, just for one day, if he sends his Riveraless ballot in. He invents a loopy rationale to deprive a MFY of unanimous support and then doesn't follow through. Next time put a stamp on the envelope.


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