{"id":11640,"date":"2017-01-19T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2017-01-18T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T03:55:53","slug":"2017-hall-of-fame-election-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/2017-hall-of-fame-election-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Hall Of Fame Election Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>All eyes turned towards Cooperstown yesterday\u00a0as the votes were\u00a0tallied and three new members were announced as the Hall of Fame class of 2017: Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan Rodriguez. \u00a0Bagwell, in his seventh\u00a0year of eligibility, garnered 86.2% of the vote. \u00a0Raines, in his last year on the ballot, scored 86% of the vote. \u00a0Rodriguez, a surprise based on publicly released ballots, surpassed the necessary 75% by 4 votes in his first year of eligibility.<\/p>\n

Six\u00a0others tallied greater than 50% of the vote, led by Trevor Hoffman, who fell a mere 5 votes shy of election, and Vladimir Guerrero, who was 15 votes short. \u00a0Following Edgar Martinez, who raised his total to 58.6%, were Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, who both surpassed 50% for the first time and saw enough increased support to lead one to believe the will eventually be voted in. \u00a0Mike Mussina was the final player to finish above 50%, coming in at 51.8%.<\/p>\n

Lee Smith garnered 34.2% of the vote in his final time on the ballot. \u00a0Jorge Posada and Magglio Ordonez led the 16 first timers who failed to get 5% and will now fall off the ballot.<\/p>\n

As for the newest Hall of Famers, I\u2019ve seen Rodriguez play 19 times, mostly during his stint with the Tigers towards the end of his career. I only saw\u00a0Bagwell\u00a0play\u00a013 times over the course of his career, followed by 9 career games for Raines.<\/p>\n

Jeff Bagwell’s numbers in games I’ve attended were:<\/p>\n

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Tim Raines’ numbers in games I’ve attended were:<\/p>\n

HOF Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.265<\/span><\/td>\n49<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Ivan Rodriguez’s numbers in games I’ve attended were:<\/p>\n

HOF Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.276<\/span><\/td>\n29<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All eyes turned towards Cooperstown yesterday\u00a0as the votes were\u00a0tallied and three new members were announced as the Hall of Fame class of 2017: Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan Rodriguez. \u00a0Bagwell, in his seventh\u00a0year of eligibility, garnered 86.2% of the vote. \u00a0Raines, in his last year on the ballot, scored 86% of the vote. \u00a0Rodriguez, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[395,1535,44,4059,391,2454,48,909,4169,396,55,4161,6179],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-barry-bonds","tag-edgar-martinez","tag-hof","tag-ivan-rodriguez","tag-jeff-bagwell","tag-jorge-posada","tag-lee-smith","tag-magglio-ordonez","tag-mike-mussina","tag-roger-clemens","tag-tim-raines","tag-trevor-hoffman","tag-vladimir-guerrero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

HOF Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.242<\/span><\/td>\n66<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n15<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n17<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n19<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n