That Bud Selig is in the Hall of Fame is a knife to the heart.

Schmidt was a teammate of Allen and Kaat…Carew, Kaat and Olivia were teammates too. Anyone else?

Edit: Jenkins and Allen for a short time during Fergie’s MLB debut.

Kim Ng on the panel. Is this the first woman to get a vote on the Era Committee?

Kaat was a broadcaster for the Yankees when Torre was the manager.

Carew was Oliva's roommate for years and they remain very close. Carew has stumped for Oliva's candidacy in the past.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/brothers-friends-and-teammates-after-50-years-rod-carew-tony-oliva-still-going-strong-211957126.html

Not a great group of voters for Miñoso.

Re the Early Game ballot: Jenkins, Smith, Torre, Schuerholz, DeWitt, Kendrick and Reagins also are among 16 voters on the Early Baseball Era Committee along with Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven. Media members/historians include Hirdt and Burgos plus Gary Ashwill, Leslie Heaphy, Jim Henneman, Justice Hill, Rick Hummel and John Thorn.

Among these folks, the only one I’ve heard mention any candidates is Thirn who in a round table mentioned Bud Fowler as someone whose achievements as a serial baseball entrepreneur may have made him worthy of the Hall’s attention as a pioneer.

[1] It'll be much worse when Rob Manfred is inducted. By then, I fully expect the broadcast to run a prop bet scroll during his acceptance speech for the O/U length of it.

Way back Mike Schmidt was a vocal Pete Rose supporter. That won't matter though.

Burgos Jr. is a huge Minnie supporter and on his own makes it a good group for Minnie - he'll go to bat for him. If you look at his Twitter timeline, many of the tweets are about Minnie. I think it's actually a pretty favorable slate for Minnie because of that - there aren't many/any who would overtly object to Burgos Jr.'s arguments.

Three guys with strong STL ties (Dewitt, torre , smith ) plus it seems mostly an NL flavored committee

I’d say it’s good for Boyer (mike Schmidt should help there along with STL connections ), good for Oliva with Carew and Avila

Avila is first Cuban GM and Ng is first female GM so maybe good for Minoso. Burgos specializes in Latino sports history ! Jarrin is well known in Latino broadcasting circles

Kaat may get some love with Carew, Avila and jarrin

Hard to see this being a good committee for dick Allen, Maris, Pierre, Hodges, wills or murtaugh

I’d say that minoso will go in but it’s not clear to me if anyone else will. I’d like to see Kaat or Boyer or Allen but this looks like a tough crowd for Allen

Schmidt is on record referencing advanced statistics help Dick Allen's case and that he's a big proponent of Allen's case, and they played together. I'd actually argue Jarrin is great for Wills because he was broadcasting Dodgers games in 1959 and was doing radio during Wills' MVP year. He also broadcast for part of Hodges' Dodgers tenure, albeit the tail end.

And while it's largely an NL-flavored committee, most of the players missed the peaks of most of the candidates. Pierce, Hodges, Maris, Boyer, Minnie were all retired by 1969, and Schmidt didn't start until 1972, Ozzie until 1978, Carew until 1967. Ng was working for the ChiSox when they entertained Minnie's final comeback attempt in the early 1990s.

It's pretty varied, and it will be interesting to see what happens. Jenkins competed against, and played with, Allen, and might have first-hand knowledge of the racism Allen faced in Philly in the mid-60s.

I’d be shocked if Allen isn’t elected, an expectation that preceded his death.

If Kaat and Minoso get in that is OK I guess - neither great choices, but neither are Harold Baines level jokes either. Wills would be a joke imo.

I don’t know about Murtaugh - guys like this seem to cruise through the vets committee and frankly I don’t understand why people like Marvin Miller and Murtaugh end up in the same list as the players. Shouldn’t they just have a non-playing committee to assess these folks?

Burgos Jr. is a huge Minnie supporter and on his own makes it a good group for Minnie

Good to know. Oliva would argue for Minoso.