5
2011
Former Met Roberto Alomar And Bert Blyleven Are Heading To Cooperstown
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Well, its that time of year again. Its time to decide who was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Its that time of year where we argue, dispute, and elect those worthy of joining the best of the best, of all baseball players in the Hall of Fame.
The BBWAA announced today (drum roll please….) that they elected Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Both are joining former GM Pat Gillick in this years class.
Alomar, a former met, won 10 gold gloves, and is a 12-time all-star, while Blyleven won 287 games during his major league career, and is in the top-5 in strikeouts all-time.
The Mets are thrilled that Alomar was elected to the Hall of Fame, and in a statement, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said.
All of us at the Mets congratulate Roberto Alomar on baseball’s most prestigious honor, his well-deserved election into the Hall of Fame.
My reaction isn’t much of a surprise to be honest. I knew basically that this was Roberto Alomar’s year, although I was not quite sure about Brett Blyleven. Both Blyleven and Alomar have numbers that were certainly worthy of the hall.
Looking ahead into next years voting, I think that Barry Larkin will get into the Hall. Larkin (other than Blyleven and Alomar) was the only player to have more than 50% of the votes from the baseball writers with a solid 63% showing, and it looks like he took his first steps toward enshrinement in Cooperstown.
About the Author: Brandon Butler
Brandon is currently a MMO Minor League Staff Writer. He is also the co-host of the Mets Madness Podcast on Talkshoe Radio. Brandon lives in Hornell, NY.
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Congrats to Roberto Alomar and B. Blyleven. Alomar was one of the best players ever. To bad he was not the HOF player as a Met. Biggest disppointment to become a Met to me since he also came from Salinas Puerto Rico where my family is from. Still one of the best ever.
I have been watching baseball seriously now for almost 50 years and there is one thing I have been scratching my head over for quite awhile. What happened to Roberto Alomar when he came to the Mets? Where there signs of his decline as a player before he got to New York. I thought that his arrival was going to be a slam dunk success but he was terrible with us…
Anyone have any answers?
Good to see these guys elected in. They deserved it.
Normally, I find the people on the voting staff to be lacking intelligence.
Personally, Bagwell should have been a HOF. Without a doubt. And as mentioned in the other article – Piazza could suffer the same fate. If he does, I’ll be livid.
I agree about the voting staff. Get some huge baseball fans in there, and its going to be alot more fair.
As far as Mike Piazza goes (HOF), I think that Mike Piazza got along quite well with fans and the media (from what i can remember) during his days in New York, so i don’t think that there will be any problems whatsoever with journalists voting. We’ll just have to see though.
34 years old, in an overly poor line up with LOTS of strikeouts, Cedeno, Vaughn, Burnitz. Other lower scale offensive performers Timo, Payton, Rey. Once you got past Alfonzo, Piazza and Mo, to some extent, you were home free.
Astascio, Estes and D’amico 3 days out of 5 in the starting rotation.
Manager under pressure, Mets turned down Alomar’s request to have his “friend” hired as a personal asst/trainer. Mets turned down his request for a contract extension.
Proof positive of the old GM’s adage. It’s always better to get rid of a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
We are so frequently in the position of trying to get rid of guys we have paid SO much money to who nobody else wants, and at best all we can get for them is SOME salary relief, but nothing for the team going forward.
I never could understand the thought process behind that trade. Did Steve Phillips just come to the conclusion that Alex Escobar was never going to amount to anything or did he trade a potential long term solution for the last couple years of a future hall of famer who you knew couldn’t go on forever. Probably win now or else pressure by ownership and as usual one of our prospects didn’t pan out. What a surprise.
2006 saw Escobar play fairly well in 100 PA’s for the Nationals but now he is just a winter League fixture in Venezuela.
Except for when he was with the Mets, Roberto Alomar was a great baseball player. But he’s probably lucky to get into the HOF. He was involved in a nasty incident in which he spat in the face of John Hirschbeck, a home plate ump who threw him out of a game in Toronto. More recently, he’s had a couple of image-unfriendly lawsuits to deal with regarding his alleged HIV status.
Welcome aboard Roberto. The past is the past, but remember your public image counts with writers and fans.