FOFC Baseball Hall of Fame 2016
 

Please vote in the thread below - discussion is always welcome.

You are voting for a player to be admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. You may vote for no more than 10 players. Players appearing on 75% or more ballots gain admission


* indicates final year on ballot

That is one HELL of a freshman class...Vlad, Posada, Manny, Pudge..wow

My Ballot:

Oh, please hide your ballot in the SPOILER tag so as not to unduly influence others.

Toddzilla hates pitchers.

I don't understand the love for Manny. Great hitter but failed two drug tests. Not a name on a secret list or suspicions.

its he era, they were all on roids, hes was GREAT.

He was partly in that era and for good or bad he was not completely in that era. He was also partly in the testing era when the rules changed and there he failed a test two times.

If Raines doesn't get in, my soul will be wounded. I loved watching that guy play.

Coke head or not, dude had game.

Not sure if I've ever told this story on the forums or not. The first baseball game I can remember going to was at Old Mile High Stadium. Tim Raines started in the OF and Tim Wallach started at 3B. The following year Raines was up at the big league level stealing 71 bases and the Expos were moving another talented young OF through their system. A kid by the name of Terry Francona.

My favorite player on the team was a guy named Dave Hostetler. He played for Texas for a couple of year and ended his career in Japan. He hit some MONSTER bombs for the Bears including a shot into the second deck in left. (I don't think a major leaguer ever hit one there)

Raines was a special player. I think he belongs in the hall.

Honest question:

Same question to you, but reverse the names.

Bonds was an insufferable ass, I liked Clemens.

I'll tabulate and post results the day the real voting ends.

LAST CALL FOR VOTES!!

We have 19 voters, so 15 is the threshold to get in at this point

(Hint - very small class so far)

Fun interlude. 18 years ago today. Pretty good class.

Wow. thats a great class.

Hard to believe they have been retired for 23 years.

So Trevor Hoffman gets 74.0% while Lee Smith is at 34.2% (facepalm)

They're the same pitcher, but one came along in the very early days of the save rule and one came after it had transformed pitcher usage.

It really is hilarious how close those two pitchers are - in Baseball Reference Smith is the nearest comparison for Hoffman.

The results are in...the 2016 inductees to the FOFC Baseball Hall of Fame are...

Jeff Bagwell - 86%
Barry Bonds - 76%
Roger Clemens - 76%
Trevor Hoffman - 76%

Wow, VERY different than the BBWAA, that's for sure.

We had 21 voters, so 16 votes was needed for election. Bagwell got 18 out of a possible 21 votes; Bonds, Clemens, and Hoffman got exactly the 16 votes they needed.

As for the real-life enshrinees, Tim Raines missed it by one vote and Pudge fell 3 short:


The google sheet can be seen here: hxxps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PpHRK1U1evmq-EMTTWt95aAO6a1XbL2bCxX2C4reRAU/edit?usp=sharing

I guess nobody cared that Pudge came to camp the year after drug testing started and his head had shrunk a full size?

I couldn't believe that Vlad didn't get in on the first ballot.

Trevor Hoffman?

I have no problem with that at all. Was a beast for quite a number of years.

Bonds and Clemens continue to slightly gain ground, but they're probably not doing it fast enough. (57% and 56%) Edgar Martinez jumped up to to 70.4%, so I bet he gets in next year, his last year on the ballot. He was as low as 25% a few years ago. Mike Mussina also had a big jump, up to 63.5%, from 43% last year, and 20% two years before that.

Edgar Martinez will have to wait one more year and sweat out his final year on the ballot before he's enshrined. Bummer he has to wait, but the good news is it looks pretty much set for him to get in next year.

That's a shame that Edgar is going to make it. Baseball would be better off ending the DH

Re: Bonds and Clemens, I would imagine that the fact that they gained ground at all, despite the public outcry from those already enshrined, has to be a good sign for their chances.

As I've thought all along, I still suspect that they will get in but it won't be until their last year or two of eligibility.

Why are Clemens and Schilling not in? That's crazy

The local sports radio show was talking about Bonds and Clemens today. They were listing stats about him.
If they eliminated all his HRs his OBA would be >384. Which is higher than Arods.
In a 3 year span he hit 173 HRs and struck out 183 times. I might be wrong on the numbers, but he only struck out 10 more times than hit a HR.
He had 688 career intentional walks.
One of the guys commented that he would regularly only see one pitch to hit in a game and he would launch it.

He was a great baseball player. One of the best ever. Its a sham he isnt in the HoF. Regardless of the PED thing. Which wasnt against the rules. And helped baseball recover after their Lock out/strike years.