Former Met Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven are the two inductees this year into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Both deserve it, in my opinion. As do a couple of others on the ballot, but they’ll have to wait.
Alomar 523 (90.0%)
Bert Blyleven 463 (79.7%)
Barry Larkin 361 (62.1%)
Jack Morris 311 (53.5%)
Lee Smith 263 (45.3)
Jeff Bagwell 242 (41.7)
Tim Raines 218 (37.5),
Edgar Martinez 191 (32.9)
Alan Trammell 141 (24.3)
Larry Walker 118 (20.3)
Mark McGwire 115 (19.8%)
Fred McGriff 104 (17.9%)
Dave Parker 89 (15.3%)
Don Mattingly 79 (13.6%)
Dale Murphy 73 (12.6%)
Palmeiro 64 (11.0)
Juan Gonzalez 30 (5.2)
Harold Baines 28 (4.8)
John Franco 27 (4.6)
Kevin Brown 12 (2.1)
Tino Martinez 6 (1.0)
Marquis Grissom 4 (0.7)
Al Leiter 4 (0.7)
John Olerud 4 (0.7)
B.J. Surhoff 2 (0.3)
Bret Boone 1 (0.2)
Benito Santiago 1 (0.2%)
Carlos Baerga 0
Lenny Harris 0
Bobby Higginson 0
Charles Johnson 0
Raul Mondesi 0
Kirk Rueter 0
27 comments
Ceetar
1/5/2011-2:21pm at 2:21 pm (UTC -4)
Since we’re talking about it anyway, might as well make it on topic?
how do I attach a picture for it?
Prismo
1/5/2011-2:26pm at 2:26 pm (UTC -4)
If you look on the bottom rightish of the post editor, you’ll see “Featured Image” – click on ‘set featured image.’ Then either upload an image or choose one from the library (do not use a URL link) – after that image is shown, right under the Size options click “use as featured image.” Then you can just X out of that image box, and there should be a small picture on the post editor page under Featured Image. That’s it.
Ceetar
1/5/2011-2:27pm at 2:27 pm (UTC -4)
why no URL?
Prismo
1/5/2011-2:28pm at 2:28 pm (UTC -4)
Don’t know, I never could get that one to work. If you find an image online, just save it to your desktop and upload it on wordpress…
Ceetar
1/5/2011-2:29pm at 2:29 pm (UTC -4)
done.
I’ve always had the opposite problem. always had issues with the upload so I just use my picasa album for all my blog posts. Oh well, whateva
Prismo
1/5/2011-2:30pm at 2:30 pm (UTC -4)
You succeeded! Nice job.
TRS86
1/5/2011-2:37pm at 2:37 pm (UTC -4)
The feature image slide show has to pull from items saved to the host.
Prismo
1/5/2011-2:23pm at 2:23 pm (UTC -4)
As I reported on Twitter, I’m hearing from my sources that Alomar will NOT be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Met. Again, this is only preliminary. And Buster Olney…achem…my sources…cannot 100% confirm this report.
Alomar racked up 13 dingers, 86 runs batted in, and 17 fielding errors during his 1.5 year stint on the Mets. (personally, I really think he’s a Met for life)
stickguy
1/5/2011-2:24pm at 2:24 pm (UTC -4)
sadly, I would be exstatic if Castillo could have put up them assume numbers!
metsfan4decades
1/5/2011-2:50pm at 2:50 pm (UTC -4)
I just had MLB network on when they were interviewing Alomar on what hat he thinks he’ll be inducted in with. He started to say he doesn’t have any control over that and I’m assuming they were going to ask him what team he’d like to go in with. However, got a phone call right then so had to mute it. Didn’t get to hear the thoughts on that.
stickguy
1/5/2011-2:23pm at 2:23 pm (UTC -4)
whoever voted for B.J surhoff should have his voting rights revoked.
Hey, think Roberto will go in wearing a Mets hat?
kingman 26
1/5/2011-3:41pm at 3:41 pm (UTC -4)
Whoever put Lenny Harris on the ballot should have their right to watch baseball revoked!!
stickguy
1/5/2011-3:52pm at 3:52 pm (UTC -4)
hey, everyone that makes 10 years gets service time. Just thank God no one actually voted fo rhim!
kingman 26
1/5/2011-3:56pm at 3:56 pm (UTC -4)
Ah, good point!
Ceetar
1/5/2011-2:38pm at 2:38 pm (UTC -4)
I thought Bagwell deserved more votes, surprisingly low.
In fact, Joe Posnanski convinced me of McGuire as well.
TRS86
1/5/2011-2:38pm at 2:38 pm (UTC -4)
Looks like Larkin has a good chance next year.
Ceetar
1/5/2011-2:40pm at 2:40 pm (UTC -4)
Who’s first year eligible next year? anyone good?
Prismo
1/5/2011-2:46pm at 2:46 pm (UTC -4)
Not sure, but in 2013 we get Piazza!
gategem
1/5/2011-4:28pm at 4:28 pm (UTC -4)
LOL Some Yankees fans I know are reporting that Piazza only gets in if Sam Champion is admitted with him. LOL
TRS86
1/5/2011-2:55pm at 2:55 pm (UTC -4)
I know Kingman disagrees but Larkin is seriously underrated. He may be the in the top 5 SS of all-time not counting some that are not elligible yet.
kingman 26
1/5/2011-3:31pm at 3:31 pm (UTC -4)
Nah, cannot agree with that.
Really, really good player for a long time, but better than Raines, Parker, or Keith?
Would you choose him over any of those guys for one year in their prime?
stickguy
1/5/2011-3:49pm at 3:49 pm (UTC -4)
well, from 96-98, he averaged ~.940 OPS. Pretty damned good for a SS. 1B and RF have to get knocked down a bit in a comparison.
Raines broke .900 once, but did steal more bags FWIW.
Parker had 1 3 year period of .900+ that was comparable. A few more HRs overall, less SBs, and actually a lower career OPS.
Keith is a pretty close comparison, with similar high OBP and slg.%. ANd of course the D, but that is seriously undervalued in looking at the HOF, especially at a position where it is not “normal”, so Larkin probably gets more bonus points there.
If Keith had put up his numbers at 3B or 2B, he would be looked at much differently. He just looks weak as a 1B not even having 200 HRs. May not be fair, but just the way voters look at it.
kingman 26
1/5/2011-3:57pm at 3:57 pm (UTC -4)
Well, the Kingman Hall of Fame takes defense very seriously!
Keith was hands down the best defensive first baseman I have ever seen, and Parker had an arm that was beyond belief.
But overall, I don’t really think any of them are for sure HOFers.
stickguy
1/5/2011-4:02pm at 4:02 pm (UTC -4)
Keith really was an outlier when he played. He did not at all fit the mold of a 1B of the time, and his numbers reflect that. and IMO HOF voters are not particularly good about thinking outside the box when it comes to evaluating guys like this.
they also only seem to factor in D (to the level they do factor it in) for the premium D positions like SS.
kingman 26
1/5/2011-4:13pm at 4:13 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed all around, but remember, Keith did hit some doubles and drove in runs—back when they had the game-winning RBI stat, if I remember correctly, he was always among the leaders.
Dare I say that he was clutch??
stickguy
1/5/2011-3:51pm at 3:51 pm (UTC -4)
oh, as to your question, not sure what relevance that has to HOF voting, but yes, if you cherry pick their “best” year, and factor in positinal difficulty (for defense and compared to others playing the spot) then yes, Larkins best year is very comparable to any of those 3 guys.
TRS86
1/6/2011-8:10am at 8:10 am (UTC -4)
Kingman, in my opinion you have to look at stats based on position. Should a SS’s offensive output have to be the same as a 1B?
Again, name 5 SS with better stats. Name 3 non active SS with better stats.
When you look at things, Wagner, Banks (who played significant games at other positions) Ripken, and uh…