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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Wednesday, December 23, 2015Mock Hall of Fame Ballot 2016: ResultsBBTF recommends 9 players for election: Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey Jr, Mike Mussina, Mike Piazza, Tim Raines, Curt Schilling and Alan Trammell. Percent Player 99% Ken Griffey Jr. 96% Jeff Bagwell 96% Mike Piazza 92% Barry Bonds 92% Roger Clemens 91% Tim Raines 87% Mike Mussina 81% Alan Trammell 80% Curt Schilling 41% Larry Walker 39% Edgar Martinez 37% Mark McGwire 17% Jim Edmonds 15% Sammy Sosa 5% Fred McGriff 5% Gary Sheffield 3% Jeff Kent 1% Nomar Garciaparra 0% Garret Anderson 0% Brad Ausmus 0% Luis Castillo 0% David Eckstein 0% Troy Glaus 0% Mark Grudzielanek 0% Mike Hampton 0% Trevor Hoffman 0% Jason Kendall 0% Mike Lowell 0% Lee Smith 0% Mike Sweeney 0% Billy Wagner 0% Randy Winn 733 votes from 75 ballots |
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1. DL from MN Posted: December 23, 2015 at 02:20 PM (#5119350)Jeff Bagwell
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Edgar Martinez
Mark McGwire
Mike Mussina
Mike Piazza
Tim Raines
Curt Schilling
Sammy Sosa
Alan Trammell
Larry Walker
That means Griffey is the only "new" player. I am curious to see how Edmonds would do on an empty ballot.
I think he goes in on an empty ballot, but it would be interesting to see what he would do on a ballot with only 7 clear hofers on it, instead of this ballot.
Poor Jeff Kent, though.
My ballot exactly. Looks like I need to change my handle to reflect my status as the prototypical BBTF poster.
Been hitting the eggnog?
This is my tally of the votes cast (counting Mike Webber):
Total Ballots Cast 75 75% threshold> 56.25
Sorted Full Name Sorted Votes
Ken Griffey Jr. 74
Jeff Bagwell 72
Mike Piazza 72
Barry Bonds 69
Roger Clemens 69
Tim Raines 68
Mike Mussina 65
Curt Schilling 61
Alan Trammell 60
Larry Walker 31
Edgar Martinez 29
Mark McGwire 27
Jim Edmonds 13
Sammy Sosa 10
Fred McGriff 5
Gary Sheffield 5
Jeff Kent 2
Nomar Garciaparra 1
Garret Anderson 0
Brad Ausmus 0
Luis Castillo 0
David Eckstein 0
Troy Glaus 0
Mark Grudzielanek 0
Mike Hampton 0
Trevor Hoffman 0
Jason Kendall 0
Mike Lowell 0
Lee Smith 0
Mike Sweeney 0
Billy Wagner 0
Randy Winn 0
Total ballots cast = 75
avg names per ballot 9.7733333333
voters with 10 names 69
voters with <10 names 6
Good to see even BBTF can't unanimously elect anyone either.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if you dropped everybody in #1 from the ballot. Griffey would obviously sail in - probably unanimously (I assume his one omission here was a strategic omission from a full ballot) - but I'd be curious to see what peoples' opinions really are of Jim Edmonds, Jeff Kent, Trevor Hoffman, Gary Sheffield, and others, with no excuses for NOT voting for them other than "I don't think he's a Hall-of-Famer".
I'm a little more appreciative of peak achievement than some others in this ballot, but McGwire and Sosa are OK per the referendum, I see, and I probably would have gone to Mussina as the eleventh on my own ballot. I don't know if it's groupthink; I just think there's still a ton of overqualified guys active on the ballot.
That is why on my ballot I listed who I voted for, who I would vote for if given a chance, and who I would be more interested in having a prolonged discussion about, Kent and Edmonds make that last group. I'm one of Jim Edmonds biggest fans(he's 1 month 8 days older than me...yes I'm a geek) but I need someone to convince me that my opinion is right or wrong. I think he's a clear hall of meriter, but hof is a different story, and I think his relative lack of career hurts him.
That is one of the side effect good things about the system that the hof has set up, is that consensus is hard, but it also means that the low percentage guys are often given a second look(except the Whitakers, Simmons or Browns)
My 10 were 10 of the top 11 (I continue to down-vote Piazza... I also recognize what sort of minority that puts me in)
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