Hall of Fame, Who would you vote for?

[Goober]

Lets see who would get into the Hall of Fame if VSN posters were in charge of the voting. Remember pick a maximum of ten players.

There's 27 players on the ballot, however VSN limits the poll to 25 options, so I took off a few names.

I forgot an empty ballot option, sorry. If that's what you want to vote, just post it.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Bagwell
Larkin
Martinez
Palmeiro
Raines
Walker
Williams


Trammell & Murphy miss my cut.

 

[G-men]

Bagwell
Gonzalez
Larkin
Martinez
Mattingly
McGwire
Walker (didn't see him on the list so I didn't vote for him in the poll)

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Walker is on the list

 

[NAHSTE]

Bagwell
Larkin
Martinez
Raines
Walker

Don't know enough about Trammel one way or the other. Only name among these who isn't a sure thing in my mind is Edgar.

 

[Goober]

Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Edgar Martinez
Mark McGwire
Rafael Palmeiro
Tim Raines
Alan Trammell

 

[FirstTimer]

Bagwell
Larkin
E. Martinez
Raines
Trammel
Walker

 

[EmpireWF]

Larkin
Morris
Raines
Walker

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Larkin
Morris
Raines
Walker

I take it you're an anti-juicer guy?

 

[EmpireWF]

I take it you're an anti-juicer guy?

Palmeiro & McGwire were automatic no's. Perhaps not fair to Bagwell since he never failed a test, but thats the price such guys will play for being part of that era.

 

[nflman2033]

Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Don Mattingly
Jack Morris
Larry Walker

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I was checking out Tim Salmon the other day, and I forgot how good he was. Really underrated player.

 

[NAHSTE]

Palmeiro & McGwire were automatic no's. Perhaps not fair to Bagwell since he never failed a test, but thats the price such guys will play for being part of that era.

What exactly do you mean, "such guys"?

Power hitting guys? Muscular guys?

 

[EmpireWF]

What exactly do you mean, "such guys"?

Power hitting guys? Muscular guys?

Power hitters in the steroid era.

 

[Goober]

Power hitters in the steroid era.

You voted for Larry Walker. Higher slugging and ISO then Jeff Bagwell. Same amount of known steroid use.

You suck.

 

[NAHSTE]

Power hitters in the steroid era.

So no power hitters who played from the mid 80s to the mid 2000s should be in the HOF in your mind?

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Edgar Martinez
Larry Walker

Can't really split the hairs with Raines, Trammell, Walker, Bernie Williams.

I went with Walker because the .400 career OBP pops out over the rest of the similar resumes.

 

[Irish]

Bagwell
Larkin
Morris
Palmeiro
Walker

Gonzo, Edgar, and Raines all fringe.

 

[EmpireWF]

So no power hitters who played from the mid 80s to the mid 2000s should be in the HOF in your mind?

Obviously no, that's a gigantic blanket.

Some guys who didnt use will get the shaft because of the guys who we know did.

I'm more in line with the thinking that if a guy was a known user (positive test, self admitted, name part of any of the reports that were leaked, etc.), doesn't get a vote, guys like Palmeiro, Bonds, McGwire, whoever else. For guys who were never part of that (no matter hearsay such as back acne or whatever the fuck), guys like Walker, Bagwell, Edgar Martinez, then go right ahead.

It's ridiculous to think the baseball HOF should be without such major names as Bonds, ARod, McGwire, etc. They could also put a denotion next to the name/marker/whateverthefuck to denote they were an admitted user.

I guess it's just plain easier to say it was part of the game for however long and move on with it already.

Know what, at the end of the day, it's just a stupid museum. Put whoever in and just add it to their career description.

 

[Youk]

Bagwell, McGwire, Martinez, Walker, Raines, Larkin.

I'll do a writeup for this later tonight when I'm free.