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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, March 20, 2013Kansas City Royals’ Hall of Fame voting shenanigans: Jimmy Gobble (5.23 career ERA) second in early resultsPeople voted for Sanjaya too.
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Posted: March 20, 2013 at 02:19 PM | 25 comment(s)
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1. Transmission Posted: March 20, 2013 at 04:41 PM (#4392867)The Fine Print
In other words, the Royals designed this so that fan input would be both minimal and overrideable.
Or Smell Hall
Was Neifi Perez on the ballot?
Its a Hall of FAME, not Hall of Merit. I think club Hall of Fames are for popular players (like say Cookie Rojas, who does not belong on merit). Bo clearly fits that profile, as does Joe Randa (why isn't he on the ballot????) while maybe someone who was pretty good but fairly unpopular like Danny Tartabull could be left out.
Darrell Porter 4 times AS (3 with Royals), 2 time top 10 MVP, ROY 3rd place
Bo Jackson 1 time AS, 1 time top 10 MVP.
Jackson was not more baseball famous by any stretch. he beats Porter in Nike endorsement money, sure.
Of course he was. I don't see how number of All-Star appearances is the end-all metric in baseball fame.
That being said, I think Darrell Porter should probably be in too.
I'm kind of sad Mike Macfarlane didn't make it onto the ballot. He was one of my favorites growing up and possibly the second best catcher in Royals history.
EDIT: Never mind. Just read the fine print about the Veteran's Committee voting. Has it really been 15 years since Macfarlane was traded? :(
Yep, was thinking the same thing. Why the committee would even consider someone like Gobble who is not even close to being borderline?
And the catalyst for Bill James ranking of top 100 players per position in the New historical baseball abstract.
I agree, it might be a fine line as obviously Jackson was more famous, but in regards to baseball value/fame, it's not like Porter was an unknown.
Sorry, it had to be linked....
I've mentioned before that my wife is related to Darrell (Porter was her maiden name), and it would be a pretty big deal to the extended family to see him inducted, even posthumously.
I realize people are just goofing around with Gobble, and it doesn't mandate anything, but there are real people out there who care about this stuff.
I wish my team could have a sideshow who hit 30 HRs with a 120 OPS+
Most teams have. They don't put them in a HOF:
Cubs - Henry Rodriguez 1998
BOS - Jason Bay 2009
BAL - B J Surhoff 1999
CLE - Corey Snyder 1988
DET - Rob Deer 1992
SDP - Kevin McReynolds 1986
MIL - Carlos Lee 2006
and so on.
Ahem.
OK, Luke Scott
Indeed. I'm not a Royals fan and I've aged out of the Internet-snark-is-awesome demographic, but I think this is pretty funny.
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