Some people rejoice and some people worry, the MLB Hall of Fame vote has just come to an end, David Ortiz was inducted in the first year, but the four famous players - Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Cotte Schilling and Sammy Sousa rolled in the voting pool for ten years without reaching the 75% threshold, regrettably failing.
Bonds and Clemens are the most unfortunate, the two of them won the MVP one seven times and the seven won the Celeron Award, to know that Randy Johnson, who has the second most Celeron Awards, has only five times, and the MVP has only three times. Supposedly, Both Bonds and Clemens were undoubtedly first-year Hall of Famers, but both ultimately lost because of drug bans.
In terms of personal data, Bonds is simply a BUG-level existence, he has been selected for the Star Game 14 times in his career, 762 bomb is the first in history, in addition to 514 times of stealing, 13 times of winning the Silver Rod Award, there are actually eight gold gloves, 22 years of career long play rate as high as .607. Clemens has been named to the Star Race 11 times, has a seven-time ERA minimum, and has two pitcher trebles, an MVP and two championship trophies.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has always been ridiculed by fans as a "saint's hall," and many journalists will consider whether the player is medicated or whether his personality is pleasing when voting. Clemens and Bonds were able to get more than 60% of the votes a few years ago, and many people thought that the reporters would deliberately squeeze their votes for Clemens and Bonds to the last year, but this is obviously too idealistic, although in more than half of the votes announced in advance, both of them got nearly 80% of the votes, but after the full opening, the two still have a gap of nearly 10%.
If Bonds and Clemens are banned because of drugs, then Schilling is because of his own mouth, 20 years of career, Schilling accumulated 3116 strikeouts and 216 wins, six times selected for the Star Game, although there is no Cyr young award, but three times won the second, and won three championships, the playoffs of Schilling is even more killing existence. It is worth mentioning that of Schilling's 15th and top 14th three-strike count in history, only the above-mentioned Clemens is not a Hall of Fame player.
In fact, Schilling was originally inducted into the Hall of Fame last year, and he got more than 80% of the votes in advance, but with his anti-intellectual remarks after the January election, the final vote fell to 70%, and then he said that he would let BBWAA kick him out of the Hall of Fame voting list, which reduced his vote this year by 12%.
Compared to the high profile of the above three, Sousa's Hall of Fame voting career has been tepid, as the only nine members of the 600 Bomb Club in history, he only received 18.5% of the vote in his tenth year. As a turn-of-the-century cannon, Sosa is also a memory of a generation, and it is a pity that no one enters the Hall of Fame.
Of the remaining players, Roland, who voted in the fifth year, received 63.2% of the vote, and todd Hilton in the fourth year and Billy Wagner in the seventh year also broke 50% of the vote, and their chances of final selection are not small. Andrew Jones and Gary Sheffield will both be over forty percent, and Jones in the fifth year is fine, but Sheffield in the eighth year has to be careful.
A-Rod only got 34.3% of the players who qualified in the first year, and he also had the suspicion of banning drugs, he was officially caught and banned twice, and it can be expected that his Hall of Fame trip is also doomed to be bumpy. Jimmy Rawlings, who won the MVP, also got only 9.4% of the vote, but Ryan Howard and Justin Mono, who were also MVP winners, did not get more than 5% of the votes, and the same fate was tragic for two-time Cy young award winner Tim Linscon, who were directly kicked out.
(Text/Geng Haoyang)