I’m pretty sure my regular readers know my position on this.
NEW YORK — Steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa were denied entry to baseball’s Hall of Fame, with voters failing to elect any candidates for only the second time in four decades.
Bonds received just 36.2 percent of the vote, Clemens 37.6 and Sosa 12.5 in totals announced Wednesday by the Hall and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. They were appearing on the ballot for the first time and have up to 14 more years to make it to Cooperstown.
via No players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by writers – ESPN.
Craig Biggio got the most votes? He might make it next year?
Well… I suppose you could make a case for him.
Next year we see Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine. I suspect you’ll see Greg Maddux get the highest percentage of first time votes of any player in decades.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackA “case” for Biggio?
Let’s see – compared to other HOF 2nd basemen.
Most games played. Most at bats. 3000 hits (3rd as to 2nd basemen – more than Mantle). Batting average is low, but better than Joe Morgan’s. 3rd in Home runs. Middle of the pack for Slugging %. First in runs scored. Middle of the pack in RBI’s.
In no category does he fare badly in comparison to other HOF 2nd basemen and in many categories he is FIRST, and many in the top 5.
Maybe not a “first balloter,” but certainly deserving of being in there.
What gets me is the snub of Piazza and Bagwell on nothing more than rumor.
Well, I’d say Piazza is a bit more than ‘rumor’. And I just don’t like Biggio because he used to kill the Rockies…
He definitely deserves to be there.
On Pizza-boy, the only thing I’ve heard is that he had a pimply back. That’s it. We CANNOT look at performance in a vacuum and speculate the use of PED’s. He was awesome from the very beginning and exhibited the typical decline which comes with advancing (sports) age. Quite unlike Clemons and Bonds or Palmero (or Sosa or McGwire, for that matter).
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