MLB 2024 HOF new members
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I’m friends with and still play in some national men’s tournaments with Dante Bichette. He will never claim that he should be in the Hall of Fame but in my opinion he’s a better player than Harold Baines. Dante just did not have the longevity that Harold did and a lot of his people put his numbers on playing in Coors field but he had a five or six year stretch where he was one of the best five hitters in baseball.
It’s not just the writers, it’s the Hall itself in certain instances. There are few more sanctimonious humans than Jane Forbes Clark.
No one dislikes Selig more than me but your claim that he turned a blind eye to PED use is flat out wrong. Selig tried to get random drug testing in each CBA negotiation but was consistently rebuked by Marvin Miller. In one negotiation, Miller said random drug testing was a deal breaker. Even after random drug testing was approved after Congress intervened Miller was still complaining about how that was an “invasion of the players’ privacy” despite the fact that every other damn union had long since agreed to drug and alcohol testing. The real travesty is that the writers voted Miller into the Hall of Fame.
Funny how this life long Braves’ fan never heard anything about Jones and PED rumors. I think Jones fell off a cliff because he spent too much time and money at Cheetahs and got lazy and fat.
Haines got in through the Veteran’s committee which was a homey job with the White Sox owner and his former manager, Tony LaRussa, being on the committee. An absolute farce.
Veterans committee needs to induct Dave Parker.
They are out there, but not as loud as some others. Or perhaps it was his domestic battery charge for putting hands around his wife’s neck and threatening to kill her on Christmas morning?
6 times in the top 5 of MVP voting, winning once (should have won in ‘85 as well, but finished second). Baines highest ever finish always #10, only receives vote in 4 seasons. It’s ridiculous.
Someone posted this on Twitter - historical contrxt
Is important as noted, Murphy led the league in HR one year with 36…
His fall off was pretty harsh though. I think by my personal standard, Murphy is not a hall of famer. I think by the standard set, he should be in.
Bill James has said that if you made up a team of the worst players in the HOF at each position, you'd play in the World Series every year.
Was there ever a year that no players were voted into the Baseball HOF? How much money would be lost by the town of Cooperstown and surrounding area? Restaurants, hotels, etc. I'm sure they certainly want as many players voted in as possible to elicit baseball fans to visit as tourists for the ceremony weekend when hotel rates are very high.
It’s happened a few times. No one was voted in in 2013 for example.
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