MLB Hall of Fame Class of 2022 Announcement Thread

It's pathetic that, because he was nice to sports writers, Ortiz will make it in and Bonds won't.

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Ortiz is expected to be a first-ballot HOF-er. Great hitter. Never used steroids.

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Ortiz is expected to be a first-ballot HOF-er. Great hitter. Never used steroids.

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Ortiz, you see, tested positive for a banned substance during ostensibly anonymous survey testing in 2003, a year Major League Baseball and the MLBPA viewed as a gateway to performance-enhancing drug testing with penalties. Yet in 2009, multiple reports from the New York Times and Sports Illustrated revealed details of the ’03 results that were intended to remain private – that 104 players tested positive, that long-suspected Sammy Sosa came up positive, as did the transcendent Alex Rodriguez, until the slow drip finally made its way to Boston.

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Sure, his early career arc might have raised an eyebrow. Beset by injuries in Minnesota, he was released by the Twins after the 2002 season and then, in 2003, became the Big Papi we know, slamming 31 home runs, producing a .961 OPS and 144 adjusted OPS after he was largely a league-average hitter with Minnesota. In a vacuum, a positive 2003 test isn’t startling.

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And that’s when Manfred, perhaps recognizing Ortiz’s import as a future ambassador to the game while realizing PED pariahs like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens would be denied Hall of Fame entry, issued an unprecedented get-out-of-jail-free card. He told reporters that day that Ortiz could have been among the 10 to 15 positive tests that might have been triggered by a supplement and not a banned substance, and that “there was probably, or possibly, a very legitimate explanation that did not involve the use of a banned substance. I think it’s really unfortunate that anybody’s name was ever released publicly."

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shite like this is what makes Selig and Manfred so slimy and these pretentious baseball writers are right there with them.

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Ortiz is expected to be a first-ballot HOF-er. Great hitter. Never used steroids.

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Rightttttt

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Schilling asked to be removed from the ballot and they kept him on it anyway

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Just so they could teach him a lesson by not voting for him.

Keeping certain players out of the HOF because of steroids is ridiculous.


Isn't Bagwell in?

I expect a huge thread on how the BBWA are a bunch of clueless frickwads who get their panties in a bunch way too goddamn easily and refuse to vote people in as a result.


Needing 70% when you have a bunch of grandstanding assholes who will virtue signal by turning in blank ballots or intentionally drop off deserving players over bullshite reasons are why people don’t respect the HOF.

Kind of the opposite problem of the basketball HOF where people who were mediocre get in because the sun shined on a dog’s arse in Lithuania for 10 minutes.

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It's pathetic that, because he was nice to sports writers, Ortiz will make it in and Bonds won't.

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I've been saying this for years. You can't put him in while excluding others for steroids.

If David Ortiz never left Minnesota he wouldn't even be considered for the hall, but there is a massive pro-Red Sox slant for HOF voters.

Who did Fred McGriff piss off? 493 hrs, playoff moments. 1550 rbi, .886 ops: better than Harold Baines. Classic Tom Emanski baseball commercial.

General baseball fans who hear about the white smoke from the BBWA circle jerk every year where they say “No one got in” and talk about arcane rules within their group about first ballot, steroids, Pete Rose, Black Sox, whatever the frick.


IOW, people who like the game and generally get tired about a bunch of self important frickers who insist that the best players of the past 30+ years shouldn’t be in because of whatever their personal hobby horse it.

What’s the consensus on Curt Schilling is he deserving of being in the HOF or are the baseball writers punishing him for his political views?