I see that lowly-regarded and logic-challenged Detroit News columnist, Lynn Henning, he of the "get that bum Curtis Granderson out of here already" fame has published his completed Hall of Fame ballot.
Here are his choices:
Roberto Alomar
Bert Blyleven
Andre Dawson
Barry Larkin
Edgar Martinez
Tim Raines
Alan Trammell
Actually I am a little surprised.
Well, heck let's just go with "shocked".
It looks like a respectable ballot.*
I half-expected him to pencil in some votes for some career minor-leaguers.
*If it were me, I think I would trim it down to Alomar, Raines and Martinez but the other choices are defensible.
4 comments:
nice card
I'd go with
Alomar
Blyleven
Raines
E. Martinez maybe hold off a few years (although I admit that waiting logic is kinda goofy).
Blyleven passes the ink test with flying colors. He has stats better than plenty of HOFers. He just played on crap apple teams often.
Ken,
No quarrel on Blyleven though I would probably have him in the Hall of Very Good. It is an interesting question of where you draw the line as to in and out. Again, I can't really argue with someone who arguably had the best curveball in history being in the Hall of Fame. My judgement is colored by being a young Tiger fan and having my team facing him often and frankly not being very afraid of him.
Raines is very overlooked. If you consider walks the equal to a single (though they are not quite) and add in his stolen bases, his stats equal Tony Gwynn. Someone brought that to my attention and I looked at him in a new light since then.
Kevin
Every single one of those guys except Edgar was in my "Hall of Fame shoebox" as a kid.
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