PLAYERS:
Jack Morris,
Mariano Rivera,
Trevor Hoffman,
Jeff Bagwell,
Tim Raines,
Larry Walker,
Mark Mcgwire,
Don Mattingly
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees
Disclaimers:1. This is really the Jim Corrigan Hall of Fame Ballot, but that's not a dramatic headline. And no, I don't get a vote in real life.2. The actual ballot is (I think) more complicated, with first, second, and third place votes. Too much for me, I went with pass/fail.Hall of Fame class voting has begun, and the good people at Baseball Reference have provided a handy list, as well as nearly every stat cited below. That page also has links to each player's lifetime statistics.Lee SmithBarry Larkin. No. He was NL MVP one year (1995), but Dante Bichette was better that year. He was a multi-year Gold Glover, and defense never gets fair credit. But, no.Jack Morris. Yes. Dominant pitcher at his best, never won a Cy Young, but in the top 10 of Cy Young voting seven different times. Career ERA of 3.90.Juan Gonzalez. Probably. He was AL MVP twice.Lee Smith. Hell yeah. Saves are not fashionable now, but he had 478 of them, behind only Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman.Je...
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