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. bobm posted on December 25, 2012 at 10:32 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Born Yrs Ruben Gotay 1982 4 Willy Taveras 1981 7 Hideki Okajima 1975 5 Rickey Henderson HOF 1958 25 Charlie Lea 1956 7 Rick Anderson 1953 2 Manny Trillo 1950 17 Gene Lamont 1946 5 Ben Chapman 1908 15 Pud Galvin HOF 1856 15http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi
Why does this seem...I dunno, appropriate?
Who's the other guy with the dad thinks he's a cop?
I kid, I kid...Happy Holidays everyone!
Today's birthday team is incredibly redundant. The six longest-tenured position players are:
Fast corner outfielders - Rickey Henderson, Ben Chapman, Jo-Jo Moore (Chapman did play both center and right at times, so you can at least get all three of them on the field)
Slap-hitting second basemen - Nellie Fox, Manny Trillo, Joe Quinn (Quinn is probably your shortstop, and Trillo is the utility infielder with Gene Robertson and Walter Holke on the corners)
The catcher is Quincy Trouppe (there's no MLB competition at all), and Galvin is the ace of the staff, so it's a 4-HOMer lineup; that'll win the team some games in the birthday league. For that matter, the rest of the starting pitchers aren't embarrassing. Okajima and his 6 saves may well be the closer.
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