{"id":14285,"date":"2018-12-10T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14285"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:05:47","slug":"a-shocking-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-shocking-development\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shocking Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last night, the results of the Today’s Game Era Veteran’s Committee vote was revealed and 2 players will join the Hall of Fame class of 2019: Harold Baines and Lee Smith.\u00a0 Smith was a unanimous selection by the 16 person committee, while Baines nabbed 12 votes, the minimum needed for election.<\/p>\n

Baines, 59, was the first overall selection in the 1977 draft by then-White Sox owner Bill Veeck and reached the majors three years later.\u00a0 He collected 2,866 hits, the 46th largest total in history, during a 22-year career, with parts of 14 spent with the White Sox.\u00a0 He was a six-time American League All-Star selection and won the 1989 Silver Slugger award as a DH.\u00a0\u00a0At the time of his retirement after the 2001 season, Baines was the all-time leader among designated hitters in games, hits, home runs and RBIs.<\/p>\n

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Smith,\u00a061, retired in 1997 with 478 saves after an 18-year career, holding the title of all-time saves leader from 1993 until 2006, when he was surpassed by Trevor Hoffman.\u00a0 He spent eight seasons with the Cubs, before becoming a journeyman and splitting his final ten seasons between seven teams.\u00a0 The imposing right-hander was an All-Star seven times and saved 30 or more games 10 times.<\/p>\n

Harold Baines’\u00a0numbers in games I\u2019ve attended were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Lee Smith’s numbers in games I\u2019ve 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
0.23728813559322<\/span><\/td>\n59<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
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Last night, the results of the Today’s Game Era Veteran’s Committee vote was revealed and 2 players will join the Hall of Fame class of 2019: Harold Baines and Lee Smith.\u00a0 Smith was a unanimous selection by the 16 person committee, while Baines nabbed 12 votes, the minimum needed for election. Baines, 59, was the […]<\/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":[3292,120,47,44,48,5984,4161,8109,49],"class_list":["post-14285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-bill-veeck","tag-cubs","tag-harold-baines","tag-hof","tag-lee-smith","tag-silver-slugger","tag-trevor-hoffman","tag-veterans-committee","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285","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=14285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285\/revisions\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

HOF Career Pitching<\/b><\/caption>\n
Wins<\/span><\/th>\nLosses<\/span><\/th>\nERA<\/span><\/th>\nSaves<\/span><\/th>\nIP<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nER<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nHBP<\/span><\/th>\nAppearances<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.667<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n