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Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza make the Hall of Fame

Yay!. Also glad to see Barry (cheater) Bonds not come close again. When he was a MVP in Pittsburgh, in the prime of his youth, his home runs usually barely scraped by the 380 ft mark in left center.

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mikeya02

Rong, I meant right center

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azdd

Next ballot for Trevor Hoffman. Didn't quite make it this time!

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JamesSD

Two safe picks from a crowded field.

Trevor will get in in the next 2 years.

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ButterMan

I liked griffey jr but I sure wish he could have stayed healthy and brought my reds another world series.

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motorhead

Who were the 3 a-holes that didn't vote for Junior.

Baseball writers can be real pricks and hold a grudge for a lifetime

He should have been unanimous

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mikeya02
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Clackport

He hit 630 home runs, and he was injured A LOT in the second half of his career, that's insane. Just imagine how many HR's he would have hit if he was healthy the whole time.

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JamesSD

Well, there's a certain game theory to HOF voting. If a shoo-in like Griffey doesn't need your vote, it can make sense to vote for your other pet projects instead to hope to help their chances or keep them on the ballot for next year.

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ATACdawg

I understand that there is one particular voter who says that he never votes positively for ANYBODY. Go figure :-|

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shailynn

"Who were the 3 a-holes that didn't vote for Junior."

Probably some faggot that left his ballot blank because Pete Rose isn't on there.

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Estafador

Mike Piazza in the Hall of Fame? Good call, about time too.

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pensionking

+1 JamesSD for your analysis. Due to the limits on the number of times a nominee may remain on the ballot and the requirements to remain on the ballot, your argument makes some sense.

Also, some writers intentionally lowball certain sure-thing nominees becuase they do not want their first-ballot vote totals to exceed certain luminaries from prior generations. I feel that the correct candidates make it eventually, with a very few exceptions.

Of all the major Halls-Of-Fame, I find the Baseball Hall the most interesting because of their exclusivity. Every other hall (including rock and roll hall) lets in too many people.

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mikeya02

Also some writers have the strange idea that a player shouldn't get in his first year, but will vote for him the next year or two, as if the player has to wait to "earn" the votes. Trevor Hoffman for example

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TheeOSU

I'm no longer much of a baseball fan but both of those guys deserve enshrinement.

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