Despite the big backlog of qualified candidates, 2014 could bring the best crop of Cooperstown inductees in well over a decade.
At what win threshold are players at each age level a 50-50 shot to make the Hall of Fame?
The perfect companion post for your next debate about the Hall.
AChange.org petition to ask the Hall of Fame Board of Directors to change their voting process
While we wait breathlessly for word from Cooperstown about the results of the new Veterans Committee balloting, the STATLG-L Internet Hall of Fame voters have spoken their collective mind here on BP.
Among the many responses I got to the Bert Blyleven Hall of Fame article on ESPN.com, one of the most interesting was from Dan Kelley of the Boston Metro and yankees-suck.com (a completely objective, non-partisan web site, I’m sure). While my article argued that Blyleven is by far the best pitcher not in the Hall, Dan raised the complementary issue of the best hitter not in the Hall.