The Modern Baseball Era Ballot: A Consumer’s Guide Part Two: March of the Fractionals

The Modern Era Ballot can be broken into three categories: Marvin Miller, transcendent executive (1); players who had extraordinary careers of mostly ordinary shape (4); and the Fractionals. The Fractionals’ careers had unusual—and some would say incomplete—trajectories. They presented a challenge to the traditional Hall of Fame voters because any time they can’t let numbers […]