The Rays Tank: Barry Larkin Elected To The Hall Of Fame

I’d like to see something where the writers select a team of scouts and a team of saberists to collaborate and present their respective cases via webex.

I get the process is tough since you’re having to (hopefully) set aside personal biases & review players as someone who watches the game to mostly report on it and not to analyze it. If you got a nice breakdown of tools & numbers from trusted individuals, it could help improve this process.

Lastly, given how crowded these ballots are going to be the next few years, this mindless crap of the Muellers & Young’s of the world getting votes has to stop. We’ve seen cases were guys fall a handful of votes short while those votes are wasted on guys that were good to the media. yawn

It seems to me that if a player was good enough to get in on the third try…he should have been good enough to get in the first time. It seems like some writers punish player’s for on/off-field incidents (like Alomar spitting in ump’s face). That doesn’t seem right to me.

Also it appears that some voters vote based upon who is on the ballot and not on the merits of an individual player. They may be inclined to vote for a particular player one year because the ballot has no strong candidates and vice versa.

He’s a big investor in a baseball training facility over here and his son went to DP HS (Damon’s alma mater)

You can’t put Schilling and Morris in a sentence that includes the word dominance. Schilling’s fWAR is 30 wins more. Morris had 4 seasons of >4.0 fWAR and none of them came consecutively. Schilling had a run of 15 seasons in which 12 of them were >4.0 fWAR years.

One’s a dominator, one is a compiler. To watch the same talking heads that called Blyleven a compiler twist and turn to defend Morris entertains me.

for a 1B. I don’t know, they got 3 guys who can play 1B that the Rays may like, I guess since it’s just a wild prediction, I will say Duda and a prospect.