Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Vlad Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman inducted into the HOF

[StanMarsh51]

Nothing special

Are you retarded or do you just play a SPED on tHoop? Do you know anything about sports, baseball or even Fenway Park or are you just another faggot stat queen?

How many games at Fenway Park have you watched in your miserable life?

How come Rice couldn't even hit .280 with an .800 OPS on the road?

Why can't you answer this? Saying "watch the games at Fenway" has nothing to do with this road performance.

Do you honestly consider a .277 AVG and .789 road OPS good, let alone HOF caliber?

Instead of trying to poorly deflect with insults, answer the basic question...

 

[The Derski]

Congrats to Hoffman, former Arizona SS before he became a pitcher.

 

[Rex Racer]

I am a stat queen.

No shit.

 

[The Derski]

You goofy looking mofo

 

[StanMarsh51]

No shit.

Is Rice gonna put the strap-on and go to work on you if you admit he didn't hit well on the road?

I get it - you don't wanna make him mad..

 

[msgkings322]

All clearly HOF worthy IMO.

Chipper Jones was pretty much my hero, along with Dale Earnhardt Sr when I was a kid. I went to my first ever Braves game in 1995 when I was 4 years old, and Chipper hit a homer as a rookie, and it's one of my earliest sports memories. @SlinkyRedfoot probably knows better than anyone what I think about Chipper Jones.

Chipper and Jeter were probably the last two greats that will spend their entire career with one team.

Buster Posey? Clay Kershaw?

 

[calsnowskier]

Buster Posey? Clay Kershaw?

Too early to tell. Pitchers in particular rarely play their whole career with one team.

 

[Bolts]

 

[soxfan1468927]

Jones, Thome, and Guerrero would have gotten my vote. Glad to see them in. Hoffman was inevitable.

So next year we get a reliever and a DH, the greatest to play each position.

 

[soxfan1468927]

Johan Santana got as many votes as Jamie Moyer.

I wouldn't have voted for Santana, but that's insane.

 

[soxfan1468927]

Final Tally:

Chipper Jones: 97.2% (11th highest all time)
Vladimir Guerrero: 92.9% (+21.2% over 2017)
Jim Thome: 89.8%
Trevor Hoffman: 79.9% (+5.9%)


Edgar Martinez: 70.4% (+11.8) 1 year left of eligibility
Mike Mussina: 63.5% (+11.7) 5 years left
Roger Clemens: 57.3% (+3.2) 4 years left
Barry Bonds: 56.4% (+2.6) 4 years left
Curt Schilling: 51.2% (+6.2) 4 years left
Omar Vizquel: 37.0%
Larry Walker: 34.1% (+12.2) 2 years left
Fred McGriff: 23.2% (+1.5) 1 year left
Manny Ramirez: 22.0% (-1.8) 8 years left
Jeff Kent: 14.5% (-2.2) 5 years left
Gary Sheffield: 11.1% (-2.2) 6 years left
Billy Wagner: 11.1% (+0.9) 7 years left
Scott Rolen: 10.2%
Sammy Sosa: 7.8% (-0.8) 4 years left
Andruw Jones: 7.3%


Jamie Moyer: 2.4%
Johan Santana: 2.4%
Johnny Damon: 1.9%
Hideki Matsui: 0.9%
Chris Carpenter: 0.5%
Kerry Wood: 0.5%
Livan Hernandez: 0.2%
Carlos Lee: 0.2%

 

[soxfan1468927]

My ballot for 2019:

Rivera
Halladay
Bonds
Clemens
Edgar
Schilling
Mussina
Walker
Rolen
A. Jones

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Johan Santana got as many votes as Jamie Moyer.

I wouldn't have voted for Santana, but that's insane.

His peak was too short. Injuries cost him at least 5 years or so at the end where he could have padded stats.

 

[soxfan1468927]

His peak was too short. Injuries cost him at least 5 years or so at the end where he could have padded stats.

Yeah I wouldn't vote for him, but he still was better than Jamie Moyer.

 

[soxfan1468927]

Also, he'll probably never get in, but I'm glad to see that Andruw got more than 5% of the vote to remain on the ballot.

Seems like he should get a bump next year, listed on a lot of tweets as someone who would get votes if there was no 10-player ballot

 

[Nasty_Magician]

No love for Vizquel huh? He was hands down the best defensive short stop of my lifetime (Ozzie retired a year or 2 after I started watching baseball).

 

[soxfan1468927]

Chippier Jones was a lock and rightfully so.

Vlad Guerrero is in my hall of very good, but would not have received a vote from me if I was a BBWAA voter.

Jim Thome is a gawddamn softball player and was juiced out of is mind. He did parlay the "I'm too dumb to have cheated" all the way to a bronze bust, but this one is a fucking joke.

Trevor Hoffman averaged 60 innings pitched for 18 years and he gets into the HOF? Fucking pathetic

I'm with you on Hoffman. But Jim Thome getting in is not a joke. The guy got on base and mashed.

 

[soxfan1468927]

No love for Vizquel huh? He was hands down the best defensive short stop of my lifetime (Ozzie retired a year or 2 after I started watching baseball).

Yup but there is just so much value in defense no matter where it is. Considering the offensive era in which Vizquel played, and his competition at shortstop throughout his career, his offensive numbers aren't good enough and his defensive value doesn't make up the gap.

 

[Guy Incognito]

I still think that the low end of the ballot should be a test for who gets kicked out of the BBWA each year.

People who voted for Kerry Wood, Jamie Moyer, or Carlos Lee should be replaced.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

@SlinkyRedfoot probably knows better than anyone what I think about Chipper Jones.