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<\/a><\/p>\nTry Again Next Year<\/strong>: A case can be made, but will need to be made again next year.<\/p>\n The 2010 Hall of Fame Class (according to me)<\/strong><\/p>\n Andre Dawson<\/a><\/p>\n Seeing as Jim Rice made it last year, Andre Dawson should have no problems punching his ticket this year.\u00a0 While Rice may have been the “most feared” hitter in the AL during the 1970s, an argument could be made that Dawson filled a similar role in the NL.\u00a0 In addition to the power numbers, Dawson was also able to play defense and wasn’t a hindrance on the base paths.\u00a0 He was the 1977 NL Rookie of the Year and the 1987 NL Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n Some of the things that will hold back his election is the low career OBP and his spending his formative years in the spotlight graveyard known as Montreal, but after getting 67% of the vote last year, he’s due for a bump this year.<\/p>\n Tim Raines<\/a><\/p>\n The only downsides are, again, his best years were spent in Montreal and his involvement in the Pittsburgh Drug Trials.\u00a0 There’s really no reason why Raines shouldn’t be in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n Mark McGwire<\/a><\/p>\n So, what to say about McGwire.\u00a0 His numbers speak for themselves, but he’s been locked out of Cooperstown so far due to a backlash against the “steroid era” stemming from his testimony, or lack thereof, in front of Congress.<\/p>\n I think this is the year that things start to turn around for McGwire.\u00a0 For one, he is returning to the game as the hitting coach for the Cardinals.\u00a0 Secondly, while McGwire was the first of the suspected users to come up for election, he won’t be the last and they are coming soon.\u00a0 I seriously don’t see how the BBWAA can justify keeping Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of the HOF, given the numbers they put up before they “allegedly” started using PEDs.\u00a0 And once you let one in, you’ll have to let the rest in.<\/p>\n So, while it may not be this year, but McGwire will end up in Cooperstown someday.<\/p>\n Roberto Alomar<\/a><\/p>\n On the field, there was no doubt that Alomar belongs in the Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Certainly one of the best second baseman of all time, he combined offense and defense at a position where few had done so before.<\/p>\n So there you have it.\u00a0 The Class of 2010 (according to me) for the Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The BBWAA will announce the results of their Hall of Fame voting for 2010 tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday, we\u00a0looked at the 26 candidates and dismissed over half of them. Today, we’ll take a look at the remaining\u00a08 who have a better chance and the\u00a04 who should be elected. Try Again Next Year: A case can be […]<\/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":[1546,54,395,389,2933,387,57,58,1536,1535,259,1537,47,44,390,388,48,56,50,59,53,4157,60,396,55,2433,49,51],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alan-trammell","tag-andre-dawson","tag-barry-bonds","tag-barry-larkin","tag-bbwaa","tag-bert-blyleven","tag-cardinals","tag-congress","tag-don-mattingly","tag-edgar-martinez","tag-expos","tag-fred-mcgriff","tag-harold-baines","tag-hof","tag-jack-morris","tag-jim-rice","tag-lee-smith","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-orioles","tag-peds","tag-reds","tag-rickey-henderson","tag-roberto-alomar","tag-roger-clemens","tag-tim-raines","tag-tommy-john","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18882,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/18882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/a>Last year, Raines garnered only 22.6% of the vote, which is mind-blowing.\u00a0 He is quite possibly the best leadoff hitter in the history of the game not named Rickey Henderson, with a similar, if not as potent,\u00a0blend of speed and power.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ralomar-300x203.jpg\")
<\/a>Like McGwire, Alomar, numbers wise, is a sure bet for the Hall of Fame, but there is that one incident<\/a> that casts doubt upon his candidacy.\u00a0 Unlike McGwire, Alomar apologized, took responsibility for what he had done, and has continued to make amends through charity work.<\/p>\n