Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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1. fra paolo posted on November 13, 2012 at 12:21 AM # hit 0 | hit 0It was a little disappointing to only get 11 ballots. Hopefully the numbers go up for 2012. It will be interesting to run an election without 35 years of hindsight.
Still nobody elected that is not inducted into the Hall of Merit. That's remarkable. Foster finishes 3rd as the top non-HoM player.
77 - 2nd
76 - 2nd
75 - 13th
74 - 1st
and Carew
77 - 1st
76 - 9th
75 - 3rd
74 - 7th
73 - 16th
This is also the 7th season Jim Palmer has received votes. This is the 8th season Tom Seaver has received votes.
Carew hasn't really dominated any single period. However, he's arguably putting together a better career than Frank Robinson did during the "MMP Era", which catches me by surprise.
Frank Robinson
1961 - 5th
1962 - 2nd
1963 - not ranked
1964 - 6th
1965 - not ranked
1966 - 1st
1967 - 9th
1968 - not ranked
1969 - 7th
1970 - not ranked
1971 - 17th
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