2024 Baseball Hall of Fame thread

Letting Utley in doesn’t right a historical oversight that left Whitaker (and Grich) out. It makes it worse.

 

Haven't followed the Pirates in a quarter century, but I may go to Cooperstown for this one. Jim Leyland and the horribly hidden cigarette in the dugout are my childhood, and he became so much a part of the fabric of the city that he continued to make his home in Pittsburgh long after he left the Pirates. My mom still sees him at the hardware store "dahn over the hill in Crafton" and he purchased my aunt and uncle's townhome for his one son two years ago.

 

Utley wasn't going to reach any meaningful counting stats if he came up earlier. He is a classic guy who comes up in his prime and looks great, but hits 30 and it's over. Great players don't debut at 24 let alone 26.

 

Gerry Fraley posthumously wins the BBWAA Career Excellence Award

Of the 369 ballots Fraley was named on 173. Finishing second with 113 votes was Bruce Jenkins. Joel Sherman received 83 votes.

 

Joe Castiglione wins the Frick Award

 

EDIT: Not meant as a knock at the winner, but merely to reflect the strength of this year's ballot.

 

That change had already been made prior to last year.

They are essentially doing a current voices ballot 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 / And people who retired before 1994 is 2027 / Then repeat: Current broadcasters 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031 / And people who retired before 1994 is 2032

They just make stuff up as they go: the 2022 change for 2023 was the third time in eight years they altered categories and the setup

 

Any reason they don't announce how the voting went, like the writers do?

 

One of these guys had six hits before he turned 24, and 3,004 hits after he turned 24.

 

Lord Palmerston?

 

Pitt. The. Elder.

 

Took just 32 tracked ballots before getting to the first non-Adrian Beltre vote



Of note so far:



Helton now needs to flip 12 voters / Wagner still needs to flip 24 voters