- Paper Tiger
- Jun 17, 2007
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🖨️🐯torn apart by idle hands
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Each year, when the Baseball Hall of Fame announces the results of the latest round of BBWAA voting and Era Committee selections, there is naturally spirited discussion around the ones who got in, the ones who didn't, the ones who *should* get in, and the ones who can go ahead and pay twenty-some dollars for a ticket like the rest of us. Every person has their own philosophy around who exactly makes the cut for induction: Big Hall vs. Small Hall, Peak vs. Career, No DHs or Closers Ever vs. People Who Are Wrong, so on and so forth.
That's all well and good, and it's natural that the conversation would focus on people who were on the latest ballot or are coming up for eligibility soon. However, it can be useful to look back and evaluate what this whole process has built up so far. The Era Committee system was set up to catch worthy baseballers who haven't been inducted yet; let's take this opportunity to talk about bad baseballers who should never have been inducted, or admittedly good baseballers who were also incredibly lovely people and therefore shouldn't be celebrated as part of baseball's history. Hell, let's have a vote!
THE SETUP
- Ballots: Similar to the actual Hall of Fame process, voting will be done via multiple-choice ballot.
- Candidates: Every Hall of Fame inductee so far is on the ballot. Here's the list.
- Votes: Vote for as many people as you like. Submit a blank ballot if you think that everyone who is already in the Hall should stay in (for the record I respect this, but do not understand it).
- Deadline: The deadline for voting is the first pitch of 2023 spring training (currently scheduled for Friday, February 24th, 2023 at 12:05PM Pacific Time). I'll aim to have results tabulated and posted about a week or so after that.
- Private Ballots: You can submit a private ballot to me via PM. Feel free to share all or part of your private ballot in the thread along with any commentary, but if you send me a private ballot, that's what I'll base my count on.
- Public Ballots: If you can't send PMs, or don't care about your ballot being secret, or don't care about having any sort of suspense at all, you can post a public ballot in this thread and I'll tabulate it all the same. Just include a plain list of names you're voting for before or after any commentary so I don't have to go hunting for it.
- Changing Ballots: If you sent in a private ballot and want to change it, send me a full replacement ballot via PM. If you posted a public ballot and want to change it, post a full replacement ballot in this thread. There are probably better ways for me to handle changes, but my free time is worth next to nothing! Obviously, any changes must also be made before the deadline noted above.
- Private Ballots > Public Ballots: If you send me a private ballot via PM *and* post a public ballot in this thread, I'll only count the last private ballot you PMed me, even if you later posted something different in the thread.
- Threshold: While ultimately nothing meaningful will happen regardless of how many votes anybody gets, and I'll be sharing the full voting results in this thread, let's consider anyone on at least 75% of ballots to be especially unwelcome in the Hall.
Play ball!
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- Paper Tiger
- Jun 17, 2007
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🖨️🐯torn apart by idle hands
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Alrighty! With a whopping 12 ballots submitted, I'm sorry to say that no one reached the 9-vote threshold to be unofficially booted out. But we can still curse their names under our breath.
Here's the tally:
- Bud Selig - 6 votes - 4 by name, 1 for being an executive, 1 blanket vote
- Jack Morris - 5 votes - 4 by name, 1 blanket vote
- Cap Anson - 4 votes - 3 by name, 1 blanket vote
- Jim "Catfish" Hunter - 4 votes - 2 by name, 1 for being a Yankee, 1 blanket vote
- Freddie Lindstrom, Chick Hafey, and Harold Baines - 3 votes each - 2 by name, 1 blanket vote
- Charlie Comiskey - 3 votes - 1 by name, 1 for being an executive, 1 blanket vote
- Babe Ruth, Phil Rizzuto, Rich "Goose" Gossage, Derek Jeter - 3 votes each - 1 by name, 1 for being a Yankee, 1 blanket vote
- All Yankee executives (by my count that's Ed Barrow, George Weiss, Larry MacPhail, Lee MacPhail, and Jacob Ruppert) - 3 votes each - 1 for being an executive, 1 for being a Yankee, 1 blanket vote
- Joe Torre - 3 votes - 1 for being an executive, 1 for being a Yankee, 1 blanket vote
- Ray Schalk, Jim Bottomley, Ross Youngs, Bill Mazeroski, Rick Ferrell, Billy Southworth, George Kell, Lee Smith, Hack Wilson, Rabbit Maranville, Trevor Hoffman, Red Schoendienst, Rollie Fingers, Hoyt Wilhelm, Rube Marquard, Bruce Sutter, Jesse Haines, Harry Hooper - 2 votes each - 1 by name, 1 blanket vote
- All other Yankees - 2 votes each - 1 for being a Yankee, 1 blanket vote
- All other executives - 2 votes each - 1 for being an executive, 1 blanket vote
- Cum Posey (no one voted for him specifically, but I wanted to highlight that there's a guy named Cum in the Baseball Hall of Fame) - 1 vote - 1 blanket vote
- Everyone else - 1 vote each - 1 blanket vote
No big surprises considering who people were talking up here and elsewhere!
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