The results for the 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame election are in and three new names will be set to be enshrined into baseball immortality this summer. The list includes two players Adrian Beltre and Joe Mauer getting in as a first ballot selection and are joined by Todd Helton who got in on his …
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Fred McGriff is a retired professional baseball player. He’s 59 years-old. He played Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Chicago Cubs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. McGriff is a five-time All-Star, three-time Silver Slugger, and two-time home run leader. McGriff won the World Series …
Scott Rolen is a retired professional baseball player. He’s 47 years-old. He played major league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, and the Cincinnati Reds. He is a 7-time All-Star, World Series champion, and NL Rookie of the Year. Rolen is also an 8-time Gold Glove Award winner. He is …
Randy Johnson is a retired American professional baseball pitcher. He’s 58 years-old. He played Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009. He played for the Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, and the San Francisco Giants. Johnson is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New …
Every year the Baseball Hall of Fame establishes a Veterans Committee to review different Eras of the game. This year’s committee is the Modern Era ballot, which is assessing players and coaches, whose careers and major contributions, came between 1970-1987. Keep in mind that this ballot is established by the Baseball Hall of Fame and …
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Every year Hall of Fame candidates fall off the ballot, and others get in on their first try. This list only contains the fourteen candidates returning to this year’s ballot, who had come up short, but still received at least 5% of the vote for 2019. I’ll break down each candidate and their path to …
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Here is my take. Bobby Abreu Abreu is a two-time All-Star (2004, 2005), Gold Glove Award winner (2005), and a Silver Slugger (2004). He is a career .291 hitter with 2,470 hits, 288 home runs, 1,361 runs-batted-in, and 400 stolen bases. sabermetrics – His career Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is 60 and he has a …
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The 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released. The rules are simple: members of the Baseball Writers Association of America cast private ballots to decide who is worthy of enshrinement, Writers can fill in a maximum of ten names or turn in a blank ballot if they feel like there is no one …
Branch Rickey (1881-1965) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive. He was a career .239 hitter with 82 hits, 3 home runs, and 39 runs batted in. During his managerial days, he compiled a 597-664 record. As a sports executive, for the St Louis Cardinals, he became the first General Manager to successfully implement …
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