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2017 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Della9250, Oct 3, 2016.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    But 1996 was very much not a sub-par season.
     
  2. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    You use "baseball stupid" a lot. Does that mean you are "baseball smart"?

    Just want to know who should draft my next fantasy team.
     
  3. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Jim Molony in the early running for worst ballot:

    Bagwell, Vlad, Hoffman, Kent, Edgar, Raines, Manny, RENTERIA, Pudge and Smith. He dropped Schilling and Wagner; added Kent. I have no idea how anyone can vote for Manny but not vote Bonds or Clemens. And then there's the whole Renteria vote.
     
  4. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Through 33 ballots:

    Edgar is plus 5 votes over last year
    Raines is plus 4 (needs 19 more to cross 75 percent from last year)
    Bonds and Clemens are plus 3
    Mussina is plus 2
    McGriff is plus 2
    Walker is plus 2
    Bagwell is plus 1 (needs 14 more to cross 75 percent from last year)
    Hoffman is minus 1 (needs 35 more to cross 75 percent from last year)
    Kent is minus 1
    Wagner is minus 1
    Schilling is minus 3
     
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    As someone posted earlier, With Bud Selig in the HOF, PEDs are no longer a reason to keep anyone out of the HOF. Otherwise, its like giving the guy who invented crack the Nobel Prize for Medicne but jailing anyone caught using it.
     
  6. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Manny has already gotten 14 votes (out of 33) and that's a guy who actually failed a test. Twice!
     
  7. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    And in Curt Schilling is an a-hole news: two more voters took him off so through 36 ballots he has gained one vote and lost six.
     
  8. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Jason Varitek got his first known vote today, courtesy of Jay Dunn
     
  9. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Does Heidi Watney have a vote?
     
  10. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    At the 50 ballot mark (11.5 percent of a believed 435 votes cast:

    90 percent Bagwell (picked up two votes)
    88 percent Raines (picked up six votes)
    82 percent Pudge
    74 percent Hoffman (picked up 1 vote)
    74 percent Vlad
    70 percent Bonds (picked up 5 votes)
    70 percent Clemens (picked up 5 votes)
    64 percent Edgar (picked up 8 votes)
    62 percent Mussina (picked up 3 votes)
    50 percent Schilling (lost six votes)
    42 percent Manny
     
  11. lantaur

    lantaur Well-Known Member

    Selig was put in by the veterans committee or whatever they call it now. I don't see how their mistake(s) should impact the writers' vote. Just my opinion.
     
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  12. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Raines about to lock up his spot. he needed to add 23 votes from last year, assuming the same number of ballots, and through 79 of the 400 and whatever he's already added 15.

    Bagwell's added four of the 13 he could (he needs 15) so at worst the class is going to be Raines and Bagwell. Hoffman's only treading water right now, up a vote from last year, so he needs the silent majority to give him a late push.

    Pudge is going to be close -- he's at 82 percent now but dropping. I'm hopeful he sneaks across the line and unclogs things a little more.
    Vlad is going to be short but he's going to be over 60 percent, maybe high 60s.
     
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