Now that it’s all over and we know who got in (Barry Larkin) and who’s probably getting in next year (Jack Morris), I went in and did the usual post-results housekeeping on the ballot tracker. Percentage results have been added, both actual and public only Total number of votes cast by each voter has been [...]
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I’m Back and So Is My Dorky Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker
I’ve been AWOL for quite some time for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have been very busy at work this year. I couldn’t stay away during Hall Voting Season, though, so my ballot tracker is back and so am I. And I’m not gonna lie, I will probably need help keeping it [...]
Things That Make My Eyes Shoot Lasers
From Mr. Seth Livingstone of USA Today: [Juan] Gonzalez: A two-time MVP and an RBI machine. Like Jim Rice, the American League’s most-feared hitter at his peak. This is pressing all my buttons at once. I am so annoyed at reading this sentence that I have to right about why. First off, Gonzalez’s MVPs were [...]
Hall of Fame Vote Tracker – 2011 Edition
My personal timesuck, the Baseball Hall of Fame vote tracker is back. It’s been slow but I expect the votes to start piling in. Here’s a link to the spreadsheet, and here’s an embed: Per usual if you find any ballots please let me know, I am bound to miss some even with news and [...]
The Worst 2010 Hall of Fame Ballots I Found
Because I keep a nerdy spreadsheet tracking all the ballots I find, I’m able to look back and be irritated at some of the worst Baseball Hall of Fame ballots instead of forgetting about them. I consider this a positive because it reminds me of whose opinions I should not care about later on in [...]
2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)
Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003. For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here. This year, the shocking thing that happened was the [...]
Swimming In Dangerous Waters: Finding the Worst Hall of Fame Ballots
Most ballots for the Hall of Fame are meh. There are a lot of dumb decisions that are only mildly offensive such as voting for Jack Morris and not Bert Blyleven like Buster Olney, not voting for Bert Blyleven, etc. There are some writers who go with big ballots and vote for people they don’t [...]
ESPN Hall of Fame Ballots
Just got a note that the ESPN writers put their ballots up (thank you ajnrules)! There are 11 of them, so here’s a seperate post. The spreadsheet and megapost will be are updated shortly: ESPN Writers Ballot Buster Olney: Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, Jack Morris, Mark McGwire. Brendan Roberts: Rickey Henderson, Bert Blyleven, Tim [...]
Chicago Tribune Writers 2009 Hall of Fame Ballots
The Chicago Tribune has made the ballots of all their qualified writers public for the 2009 Hall of Fame. I’ve seperated it from the big post of everything because it’s so much. It includes my absolute favorite “bad” ballot of the year in Dave Van Dyck. Look for him bellow, here’s the listing with links [...]
The Man Not Voting For Rickey Henderson
While searching around the internet for votes I missed in my big old round-up I came across Mr Corky Simpson. Here is his ballot: * Bert Blyleven * Andre Dawson * Tommy John * Don Mattingly * Tim Raines * Jim Rice * Alan Trammell I don’t mean to be cruel to an old man [...]
