MMO Hall of Fame Ballot: And The Winners Are…

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• Mitch Petanick January 9, 2013 at 10:53 am

  Not surprised Piazza was unanimous here lol
• Lisa P. January 9, 2013 at 11:08 am

  Nice to see Piazza was a unanimous choice on Metsmerized all is as it should be. I also thought it would be nice to see Bagwell and Biggio get in on the same ballot. We’ll soon find out. Good luck Mike!
• JetsMets13 January 9, 2013 at 11:09 am

  Nice! I’m still holding out hope Piazza gets in today.
• taskmaster4450 January 9, 2013 at 11:13 am

  I would agree with those three selections.

  Also believe that Jack Morris belongs in the HOF.
• TX January 9, 2013 at 11:13 am

  You may hate both Bonds and Clemens, but they should be HOFers.
• Perseus January 9, 2013 at 11:18 am

  I must have been drunk, voting for Piazza… I mean by now, we all know there’s so much proof he’s a cheater. Impossible for a 62nd round pick to succeed, it blows up all projections…

  Sarcasm font aside, I’m going to be pretty damn upset if he doesn’t get in later. He really deser es that first ballot entry, as does Biggio.

  I think a trend here worthy of noting is tbat Morris and Schilling didn’t get in either. Might be a preview of what to expect later.
• Frank January 9, 2013 at 11:21 am

  Nice job but Royce Clayton and Julio Franco? lol Lay off the rum cake.
• Little Nicky January 9, 2013 at 11:23 am

  If they did this on Metsblog, Cerrone and Baron would have found a way to make David Wright and every 1986 Met get voted in.
• Met Maniac January 9, 2013 at 11:48 am

  Of course XStream and JesseP voted for Bonds and Clemens. LMAO who didn’t see that coming!!!
• TruthsaboutMurphy January 9, 2013 at 12:02 pm

  So glad you revealed who voted for who….

  Matt B, please explain voting for Royce Clayton.

  That’s incredible. I guess there’s always one guy that needs to set himself apart by being unexplainably idiotic.
  • Joe D January 9, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    You are dangerously close to a one way ticket to Bayonne with another certain Met fan. I didn’t post the ballots to be mocked. Many BBWAA writers throw in a sentimental vote ever since the Hall of Fame’s founding. They never get in but it’s what the BBWAA call the sweet send-off. You wouldn’t know that. If you cant control your emotions and stop insulting readers/writers than it may be time for me to execute the nuclear solution. My finger is on the button.
• Mitch Petanick January 9, 2013 at 12:03 pm

  I just realized some of my votes are missing I could’ve sworn I voted for 10
• ray sadecki January 9, 2013 at 12:04 pm

  I would have thought this guy would get a little more love:

  19 DET AL 19 48 43 6 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 .186 .255 .186 .441 21 8 1 0 1 0 0 6
  1978 20 DET AL 139 504 448 49 120 14 6 2 34 3 1 45 56 .268 .335 .339 .675 89 152 12 2 6 3 0 *6 RoY-4
  1979 21 DET AL 142 520 460 68 127 11 4 6 50 17 14 43 55 .276 .335 .357 .691 85 164 6 0 12 5 0 *6
  1980 22 DET AL 146 652 560 107 168 21 5 9 65 12 12 69 63 .300 .376 .404 .779 113 226 10 3 13 7 2 *6 AS,MVP-20,GG
  1981 23 DET AL 105 463 392 52 101 15 3 2 31 10 3 49 31 .258 .342 .327 .669 92 128 10 3 16 3 2 *6 MVP-21,GG
  1982 24 DET AL 157 556 489 66 126 34 3 9 57 19 8 52 47 .258 .325 .395 .720 97 193 5 0 9 6 0 *6
  1983 25 DET AL 142 581 505 83 161 31 2 14 66 30 10 57 64 .319 .385 .471 .856 138 238 7 0 15 4 2 *6 MVP-15,GG
  1984 26 DET AL 139 626 555 85 174 34 5 14 69 19 13 60 63 .314 .382 .468 .851 136 260 8 3 6 2 2 *6D AS,MVP-9,GG
  1985 27 DET AL 149 678 605 79 156 21 7 13 57 14 5 50 71 .258 .312 .380 .692 90 230 6 2 11 9 4 *6 AS
  1986 28 DET AL 151 653 574 107 159 33 7 21 75 25 12 59 57 .277 .347 .469 .816 120 269 7 5 11 4 4 *6/D
  1987 29 DET AL 151 668 597 109 205 34 3 28 105 21 2 60 47 .343 .402 .551 .953 155 329 11 3 2 6 8 *6 AS,MVP-2,SS
  1988 30 DET AL 128 523 466 73 145 24 1 15 69 7 4 46 46 .311 .373 .464 .836 138 216 14 4 0 7 8 *6 AS,MVP-7,SS
  1989 31 DET AL 121 506 449 54 109 20 3 5 43 10 2 45 45 .243 .314 .334 .648 85 150 9 4 3 5 1 *6/D
  1990 32 DET AL 146 637 559 71 170 37 1 14 89 12 10 68 55 .304 .377 .449 .826 130 251 11 1 3 6 7 *6/D AS,MVP-19,SS
  1991 33 DET AL 101 421 375 57 93 20 0 9 55 11 2 37 39 .248 .320 .373 .693 90 140 7 3 5 1 1 6/D
  1992 34 DET AL 29 120 102 11 28 7 1 1 11 2 2 15 4 .275 .370 .392 .762 114 40 6 1 1 1 0 6/D
  1993 35 DET AL 112 447 401 72 132 25 3 12 60 12 8 38 38 .329 .388 .496 .885 138 199 7 2 4 2 2 65/D87
  1994 36 DET AL 76 311 292 38 78 17 1 8 28 3 0 16 35 .267 .307 .414 .722 85 121 8 1 2 0 1 6D
  1995 37 DET AL 74 255 223 28 60 12 0 2 23 3 1 27 19 .269 .345 .350 .695 82 78 8 0 3 2 4 6/D
  1996 38 DET AL 66 207 193 16 45 2 0 1 16 6 0 10 27 .233 .267 .259 .526 34 50 3 0 1 3 0 64/57
  20 Yrs 2293 9376 8288 1231 2365 412 55 185 1003 236 109 850 874 .285 .352 .415 .767 110 3442 156 37 124 76 48
  162 Game Avg. 162 662 586 87 167 29 4 13 71 17 8 60 62 .285 .352 .415 .767 110 243 11 3 9 5 3
  G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
• ray sadecki January 9, 2013 at 12:15 pm

  sorry the stats came out skewered here the link:

  http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/trammal01.shtml

  285 career avg. close to 200 hrs over 1000 rbis for a shortstop

  If he were a former met i bet he would have gotten 100 pct. votes as well. Also because he played his whole career in the AL we didnt get to see him play much.
• Metstheory22 January 9, 2013 at 12:17 pm

  My picks would be:

  Tim Raines

  Fred McGriff

  Mike Piazza

  Craig Biggio

  Lee Smith

  Jack Morris

  I don’t think Dale Murphy, Edgar Martinez and Curt Schilling have the overall numbers to get in.
  • TRS86 January 9, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    I can’t argue too much with that.
    I would put Bagwell in, don’t care about the guilty till proven innocent stuff.
    I would not put Smith in and I am on the fence with Morris as am I with Schilling. McGriff it really depends on what we eventually do with the roids guys. He was a great hitter but I am not sure he was HOF great.
• Hitman January 9, 2013 at 12:37 pm

  I had to do a double take with Royce Clayton. A guy like Bernie Williams or Kenny Lofton for that matter deserved to get more of a vote than Clayton. I wanna hear Matt’s explanation.
  • TRS86 January 9, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    LOL, Royce Clayton. Was that a hometown vote?
    • Joe D January 9, 2013 at 3:36 pm

      Hey at least none of us voted for Kenny Lofton.

      https://twitter.com/MetsMerized/status/289106981145427968

      LOL, I think he might stop following me.
      • SaltyGary January 9, 2013 at 7:17 pm

        LOL I sent him two different ones:

        @KenDavidoff Mad Dog is not impressed with your ballot. @MadDogUnleashed

        @KenDavidoff Congrats you are one of 18 that voted for Lofton.
      • Hitman January 9, 2013 at 8:43 pm

        On the flipside, Matt is LITERALLY the only one who voted for Clayton (he got 0.0% of the BBWAA vote).

        Why no love for Kenny? He led the AL in stolen bases 5 years in a row, multiple time Gold Glover & All Star, and it’s odd hearing all about Bonds never declining, because Lofton never did either (but cleanly). In 2005, when he was in Philly, he was 38 and was hitting .335. When his career ended, he hit .296. Do I think he’s a HOF? Not really, but to see his name go off the ballot so quickly is a surprise.
• TRS86 January 9, 2013 at 1:15 pm

  What’s the point of placing the chat link up?
  • Alex68 January 9, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    It’s called the DRUNK TANK… Get it straight buddy.
  • Alex68 January 9, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Although, you named it the fuming pile, but of course, you exchange some emails with Joe D and it was all good so… DRUNK TANK fits it better
    • Joe D January 9, 2013 at 3:39 pm

      Alex I never called it that to offend you or anybody. It was just another way of saying penalty box and I was just trying to be lighthearted and not mean spirited. At least I didn’t say the Pig Pen or Padded Cell.
• Sean Kenny January 9, 2013 at 1:24 pm

  I was the only one who voted for Larry Walker? Surprising. If health would’ve permitted, he had a fair shot at 450 HR/320 SB.
• DMets3 January 9, 2013 at 1:32 pm

  I wouldn’t vote Bonds, Sosa and Clemens in for the whole 15 years of eligibility.
• Joey D. January 9, 2013 at 1:43 pm

  I am wondering with the steroid issue known, the votes for Bonds, McGwire and Sosa.

  Was it because Bonds was a HOF candidate to begin with or that all three were competiting against other juiced up players and so the playing field was equal? On the latter, I would then say nobody from that era should get in since what we were seeing was a juiced up game – not a real game.
• Hitman January 9, 2013 at 2:01 pm

  NOBODY got into the Hall this year (Biggio led the pack with 68%).

  Only the 8th time this has ever happened. Wow.
  • ifthevansrockin January 9, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    well, some old dead guys did, but they ain’t drawing a crowd!

    man, this is going to piss off the businesses in Cooperstown, since induction weekend is a huge money maker for the area.
• taskmaster4450 January 9, 2013 at 2:04 pm

  Well that is surprising…nobody elected.
• Mary January 9, 2013 at 2:05 pm

  Unbelievable. Was anyone else expecting nobody to get in?
  • TRS86 January 9, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    Not originally but the more I read and listened over the last week, yeah I expected it.
• srt January 9, 2013 at 2:05 pm

  Just wow….no one going in.
• DMets3 January 9, 2013 at 2:09 pm

  I would thought Biggio and Morris would get in. Bonds and Clemens just ruin it.
• Joe D January 9, 2013 at 3:24 pm

  Obviously, the men and women of MMO did a much better job on the HOF voting.
  • Alex68 January 9, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Yep, maybe the HOF should consider the like of Craig Lerner, Jessica and JesseP as Ambassadors of the HOF voting right?? SMH
• Joey D. January 9, 2013 at 6:59 pm

  Hi Joe D,

  Didn’t realize your article was regarding MMO’s voting and not the full, official ballot, so I was floored when hearing Mike Francesa talking about the shutout. Thought the results were known and MLB was just waiting to make an official announcement.

  I mentioned before that even though I think he is clean, Piazza and his generation brought this upon themselves. The players not involved either turned a blind eye to it, was indifferent one way or the other and through their Union didn’t want to stop a good thing going for them.

  Everyone is to blame – the players, the managers, the owners and the Commissioner. They too turned a blind eye to it not wanting to stop a good thing for them too. Sandy Alderson being no different after testifying before that Senate Committee he was suspicious of Canseco, especially after seeing his body getting so much bigger one spring training. It’s a blot on all of them and they should be getting just as much heat as the players – actually more – because they could have at least tried stopping it themselves – internally without public fanfare. Citing that it was not banned from baseball is just hiding from the responsibility.

  Based on my own experience, I believe the average fan had no knowledge of steroids or knew about the bigger head and shoe sizes. Saw the bigger muscles but thought that was due to new weight lifting exercises creating better fit professional athletes working year-round. When Canseco hit that monster shot in the 1988 ALCS at Skydome I just thought he was super strong. We were all fooled.

  And for that, a blot on all of them too – the whole lot. And that includes those in the media who now condemn baseball and yet suspected it back then based on what they knew about drugs in sports and what was already occurring in other sports and didn’t pursue it, and that includes Mike Fancesa who said he had his suspicions too while during that time I did not hear him utter much about it.