On the ball | Bad candidates for the Hall of Fame

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling will be inducted into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame this year, according to a column by Dan Shaughnessy from “The Boston Globe”.

Shaughnessy, one of Major League Baseball’s most brilliant columnists, wrote, “The Hall of Fame vote enters a critical situation. One catches him when he opens the envelope containing the form for the 2021 vote.

“The next two winters are very difficult choices. Among the candidates who did not get 75% of the votes last year, Curt Schilling (70%), Roger Clemens (61%) and Barry Bonds (61%) got the highest total marks. Like it or not, in a year with no strong new candidates, Schilling has to hit his mark when this year’s results are announced on January 26. Clemens and Bonds, like Schilling, are ninth year on the roster. Candidates are rejected if they are not elected within 10 years. And they can remain eligible as long as they get no less than five percent of the votes in that period. “

Dan does not reveal whether he has heard the opinion of other voters. But it is possible that yes, as in most cases we usually consult.

If Clemens and Bonds don’t hit 75 percent this year, identified as they are by steroid suspects (Clemens’s name is on the Mitchell Report, while Bonds admitted to using steroids, he unknowingly says), they will have one last chance when he sends her. ballots for the 2022 elections.

So his final nominations will coincide with those of the first year of Alex Rodríguez, who in 2003 dealt with the consumption of steroids; and David Ortiz, shot in the Dominican Republic, is suspected of being a complication with illicit business.

While we can vote for up to 10 candidates, we generally elect two or three. And almost always there are those who say …: “This must be high”

But this is not the case this year, as Dan writes. It could also be that in the end no one gets 75 votes out of a hundred and the elections must be declared null and void. It has happened 14 times that the Major League Baseball Writers Association of America (MLBWAA) hasn’t elected anyone, the last one, in 1996.

When reporters vote for a deserted election, it’s because the candidates of the year don’t deserve the niche and electing them would damage the glory and history of our Cooperstown temple.

“Previously, MLB executives searched and searched for player stats to make their deals … Now what they study is taxes” … Dick Secades.

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