Vote for the Hall of Fame

Post #1 » by **Schad** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 2:33 am

http://deadspin.com/who-should-be-in-th ... 476310675/

Thought that some might be interested to (barely) influence voting for the Hall this year. Deadspin bought a ballot off of a BBWAA member, and are conducting a reader's poll to determine who will be included. While only ten names will go on the final version, you can select any/all of the candidates. Those who make a certain threshold will be put up for a re-vote to determine the final ballot.

(Also, feel free to post your list here and start an argument)

CapeCrusader · Post #2 » by **CapeCrusader** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 4:10 am

You think if any of the former Jays get in, they go in as a Jay?

Fairview4Life · Post #3 » by **Fairview4Life** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 4:15 am

Voted for all of the steroid guys, Glavine, Maddux, McGriff and Larry Walker and Eric Gagne of course.

Post #4 » by **Schad** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 5:14 am

CapeCrusader wrote:You think if any of the former Jays get in, they go in as a Jay?

Clemens and Morris definitely wouldn't. McGriff, possibly but not likely...his statistical peak was with the Jays, his two big postseason excursions with the Braves.

Unfortunately, that doesn't look like it'll ultimately matter, given that he has plateaued around 20% in his years on the ballot; it's damned tough to go in as a 1B unless you rack up massive home run totals, and he fell (just) short of 500. Olerud rates better by JAWS (which is a hybrid measure of career war and prime years) than McGriff and several other Hall of Famers, yet he fell off the ballot having gotten just 0.7% of the vote.

Speaking of which, the ten vote max is getting awfully silly these days. Thanks to holding up the steroid guys, there are now 14-15 players on there who have a good case to eventually make it. You could see players who'd have started with 20-30% and built to the Hall over a few years who fail to make the 5% threshold necessary to make the ballot in 2015, which is dumb.

Parataxis · Post #5 » by **Parataxis** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 7:41 am

McGriff deserves to be in the Hall. As it currently stands, he'll be the non-steroid tainted player with the most HRs on the outside. Given his other tools, I don't think it should be a tough call.

dkmo · Post #6 » by **dkmo** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 1:16 pm

Select Jacques Jones, Submit vote, Refresh Page, Repeat * 10,000.

satyr9 · Post #7 » by **satyr9** » Fri Dec 6, 2013 2:02 pm

dkmo wrote:Select Jacques Jones, Submit vote, Refresh Page, Repeat * 10,000.

If you could write a script that does that and post it on /b/ you'd likely get your wish.