{"id":15711,"date":"2020-01-22T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2020-01-21T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:35:05","slug":"entering-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/entering-the-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering The Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All eyes turned towards the small hamlet of Cooperstown, New York yesterday, as the votes were tallied and two new members were announced as the Hall of Fame class of 2020: Derek Jeter and Larry Walker.\u00a0 Jeter, in his first year of eligibility, came 1 vote short of joining his former teammate Mariano Rivera as the only players to be elected with 100% of the vote.\u00a0 Walker, in his tenth and final year of eligibility, found himself on 76.6% of the ballots, 6 votes above the threshold for enshrinement.<\/p>\n

Four others tallied greater than 50% of the vote, led by Curt Schilling, who jumped up to 70%.\u00a0 Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds saw very modest increases, which makes their eventual induction by the BBWAA unlikely with only two more elections for each.\u00a0 Omar Vizquel saw a nice increase in his third go-around, going from 42.8% to 52.6%.<\/p>\n

Bobby Abreu is the only first timer who will return, earning 5.5% of the vote, just above the 5% cutoff.\u00a0 Of the local contingent, former White Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez finished with 28.2%, Andruw Jones earned 19.4%, and Cub outcast Sammy Sosa garnered 13.9%.\u00a0 Paul Konerko got a mere 10 votes, Alfonso Soriano got 6, and J.J. Putz and Adam Dunn snagged a vote apiece.<\/p>\n

As for the newest Hall of Famers, I\u2019ve seen Jeter play 18 times, followed by a mere 3 career games for Walker.\u00a0 These two, along with Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller, who were elected by the Veteran’s Committee in December, will enter the Hall on Sunday, July 26.<\/p>\n

Derek Jeter’s\u00a0numbers in games I\u2019ve attended were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Larry Walker’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
0.225<\/span><\/td>\n80<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
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All eyes turned towards the small hamlet of Cooperstown, New York yesterday, as the votes were tallied and two new members were announced as the Hall of Fame class of 2020: Derek Jeter and Larry Walker.\u00a0 Jeter, in his first year of eligibility, came 1 vote short of joining his former teammate Mariano Rivera as […]<\/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":[299,130,267,395,2933,6075,120,2780,4949,44,6195,1547,2451,266,8813,580,127,396,397,8812,49],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-adam-dunn","tag-alfonso-soriano","tag-andruw-jones","tag-barry-bonds","tag-bbwaa","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-cubs","tag-curt-schilling","tag-derek-jeter","tag-hof","tag-j-j-putz","tag-larry-walker","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-marvin-miller","tag-omar-vizquel","tag-paul-konerko","tag-roger-clemens","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-ted-simmons","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","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=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"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
0.500<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n