2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Class

Milwaukee takeover if both Parker and Sabathia get in. (Sideways glance …)

 

Two former Oakland A's!!!

 

Two players in that general era sparked conversation about a line drive maiming a defensive player.

1. Dick Allen
2. Frank Howard

Long overdue for Allen.

 

Very happy for Parker. I wish they could have put Allen in while he was alive to enjoy it. Tiant was deserving as well and it would have been nice for his family with him having passed so recently.

When will they be doing the Modern Era (players who mostly made their mark in the 80s) again? Lou Whitaker is very deserving and I hope they finally right that wrong.

 

Next year

Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Managers/Executives/Umpires meets in 2026
Classic Baseball Era Committee meets again in 2027
Contemporary Baseball Era Players meets in 2028, assuming they don't change the format AGAIN

The problem with the Contemporary Player Committee is the last time these were the seven that didn't get in: Albert Belle, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and Curt Schilling.

So the questions is going to be: is there only the spot vacated by McGriff or do they remove Bonds, Clemens and Palmeiro with guys who will get votes after giving them "a chance" to get in by a committee that was never going to vote for them.

Schilling's history is also a problem as well. That's half of the eight slots that may never rotate.

 

Bonds was a lock HOFer if he had retired the day before he took his first steroid shot. He should be in.

 

What makes you think this?
I’m holding a personal Hall of Fame boycott until he’s in.

 

Schilling's history is a lot less problematic now that orange fuck face is back in office and the idea of cancel culture has been canceled forever. It won't be impossible to find an electorate with 12 people that think like Schilling (Tom Glavine & Chipper Jones were on the committee last year and you can bet they have no problem with anything Schilling's said or done since 2017 or so). His biggest problem remains being a raging asshole everyone hated long before most of his peers realized they agreed with his politics.

 

I wouldn't doubt it but he was third last time and he fell five votes shy with his committee being Greg Maddux, Jack Morris, Ryne Sandberg, Lee Smith, Frank Thomas, Alan Trammell, Paul Beeston, Theo Epstein, Derrick Hall, Arte Moreno, Kim Ng, Dave St. Peter, Ken Williams, Steve Hirdt, La Velle Neal, Susan Slusser

If he had fallen a vote or so short I could see him being the choice this time. This is the second time around for this setup for this group so we don't know how they will pick the eight. Mattingly was second with eight votes, Schilling was third with seven and Murphy had six. Belle, Bonds, Clemens and Palmeiro all had the dreaded -- less than four votes category.

I would assume Mattingly, Schilling and Murphy are three of the eight based on their totals but it will be a different electorate. Will they remove Bonds and Clemens and ssay we gave them a shot, they didn't come close so let's give a Whitaker a chance or someone who just fell off the ballot like Kent or Sheffield, who got 63.9 percent in his last time on the regular ballot.

 

I hope you're right. But I still say the best chance of Schilling not getting in is his overall assholishness.

As for the rest of the ballot, I have to think Kent & Sheffield are going to make it on there and have the inside track for election since they are pretty clearly the best players who haven't gotten in over the last decade (I don't think Kent is a HOFer, but I suspect Chase Utley's budding candidacy is really going to help him out). I could see one or two of the steroid quartet getting on the ballot with the idea Sheffield will get in and they'll be able to say see, we're not keeping out PED guys!

 

BYH, I don't think Schilling's politics hurt him, but his well-documented history of assholeish behavior towards everybody else in baseball does. Guys couldn't stand him when he was winning them pennants and World Series. If anything keeps him out of the Hall it'll be his despicable self-promotion episode with the Wakefield family.