What does the Hall-of-Fame Tracker Indicate?

[Mike D.]

Vizquel is looking at potentially the highest single-year drop in vote % ever. I don't know that he doesn't get in someday...look at Andruw Jones vote totals...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Name that candidate. Admittedly, he does better on WAR.

Hall of Fame Statistics
Black Ink
Batting - 10 (299), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink
Batting - 47 (676), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor
Batting - 109 (151), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards
Batting - 34 (249), Average HOFer ≈ 50

[Peter_Spaeth]

Schilling only at 60 percent. Forget the right wing stuff, was Roy Halladay better than Schilling? John Smoltz? Don Drysdale? Catfish Hunter? Jack Morris? Jim Kaat?

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Schilling only at 60 percent.

Schilling asked to be removed from the ballot, I would laugh if the writers voted him in, just out of spite lol

[egri]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Schilling asked to be removed from the ballot, I would laugh if the writers voted him in, just out of spite lol

When he said that last year, my first thought was he was trying reverse psychology.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by egri

When he said that last year, my first thought was he was trying reverse psychology.

You know, that might actually be a very good point about Schilling. LOL

[G1911]

Looks Ortiz is the only one with a good chance based on this. Bonds and Clemes are barely over 75% and the end result is usually lower than the early public ballots, so they aren't likely. Ortiz is borderline at this point, I'll get a good laugh if he gets in and the other roiders who were much better players get shoveled to the eras committee's instead.

Vizquel and Schilling will slide back for things that have nothing to do with performance. Accusations of sexually harassing batboys and beating women appears to be punished a bit more than being vocal about political views the hall voter base does not like, so far.

Jeff Kent continues to get no credit.

[howard38]

Originally Posted by egri

When he said that last year, my first thought was he was trying reverse psychology.

It worked for Harry Carson.

[chaddurbin]

it's not up to the baseball writers to erase a whole era of baseball history and to punish these guys retroactively even though these same writers knew what was going on as it was happening. if the owners/commissioner/powers that be were turning a blind eyes to what the players were doing because of how profitable it was, then the voters should accept that fact and vote these guys in!

it's a mockery that recent guys like baines, rice, and dawson are in and bonds and clemens are not...but life's not fair and i don't think either will make it by the end of the day.