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There are 29 players on the 2007 BBWAA ballot; you may vote for no more than 10 of them.
2007 BBWAA Ballot
Harold Baines
Rod Beck
Albert Belle
Dante Bichette
Bobby Bonilla
Ken Caminiti
Jose Canseco
Will Clark
David Cone
Eric Davis
Tony Fernandez
Bernard Gilkey
Tony Gwynn
Keith Hernandez
Stan Javier
Tommy John
Wally Joyner
Don Mattingly
Mark McGwire
Jack Morris
Paul O'Neill
Dave Parker
Jim Rice
Cal Ripken
Bret Saberhagen
Jeff Shaw
Lee Smith
Bruce Sutter
Kevin Tapani
2006-08-01 03:59:56 · 22 answers · asked by Pennywise 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Additional Rule not stated: you do NOT HAVE to vote for 10. You just cannot vote for more than 10.
2006-08-01 04:00:57 · update #1
I don't know why Sutter is still on the list. It is nboted he was inducted Sunday. Thank You
2006-08-01 04:09:17 · update #2
Ripken, McGwire, Gwynn, Tommy John, Mattingly, Lee Smith, Canseco
2006-08-01 04:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by G.O.A.T. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. DALE MURPHY (Nobody on the ballot is more deserving, yet EVERYONE overlooks him)
2. Tony Gwynn (no-brainer)
3. Cal Ripken (another no-brainer)
4. Lee Smith (baseball's all-time saves leader and a VERY great and intimidating pitcher)
And, based on others already enshrined - which should really set the criteria:
5. Jim Rice
6. Jack Morris
7. Harold Baines
8. Tommy John
9. Mark McGwire
10. Dave Parker
You could also make a case for Jose Canseco, but he can wait.
Additional note re: Murphy - Back-to-back NL MVP with three more MVP-caliber years. Gold Gloves, Silver Sluggers, 398 Career Home Runs, one of the games greatest ambassadors. If he played for a team that would have afforded him any protection in the batting lineup, he would have easily hit 40 points higher for his career and quite probably hit 600 home runs. He was the lone star on a team that had nobody else. His statistics suffered because of that. He was still able to lead them to the playoffs. People watched Braves' games just to watch Dale Murphy. His number is the only number retired by the Braves that is not enshrined in Cooperstown - and they HAVEN'T retired the numbers of some pretty good Hall of Famers. He hit his home runs before the big home run boom. 2 home runs should not keep him out of the Hall of Fame. He wasn't just a home run hitter, anyway. Nobody was better for the entire decade of the 1980s. Bruce Sutter even mentioned that upon his enshrinement. Billy Williams (former player and Cubs coach) said he hadn't seen anyone better than Dale Murphy and he'd seen Willie Mays. There are many people campaigning for the enshrinement of Murphy into Cooperstown. For some reason the writers are ignoring him. Maybe he wasn't flamboyant enough. Should he be punished for being an almost perfect role-model? Dale Murphy is who every kid should grow up wanting to be like.
2006-08-08 10:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jon K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2007 BBWAA Ballot
1. Tony Gwynn
2. Cal Ripken
3. Don Mattingly
Honorable mentions to Jack Morris and Dave Parker.
2006-08-01 11:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gwynn, Mattingly, Rice, Ripken, Sutter just got in!!! There are a couple others that should be in the HOF, Dwight Evans, and Dave Parker, Goose Gossage.
Lee Smith, Paul O/Neill, Jack Morris Tommy John will eventually get in through the veteran association.
All the steroid boys will never get in and if by chance they do, then they will have to put Pete Rose in the HOF. He may have cheated after his playing days but he played to win on the field and never juiced up to do it. By the way I still think Pete Rose is a dirt bag.
2006-08-01 11:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by The Mick "7" 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Albert Belle
Tony Gwynn
David Cone
Cal Ripken
Bret Saberhagen
Tony Fernandez
Keith Hernandez
Tommy John
Wally Joyner
Don Mattingly
2006-08-01 11:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by Bartmooby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gwynn and Ripken are automatic votes.
Jim Rice gets my vote, easily. Does what guys like Parker, Belle, Canseco, and Bichette did for longer, didn't play in Coors, and actually hit for average. Plus if you look at the HOF standards (Bill James), Rice gets in pretty handily.
The pitchers? While I think Jim Kaat should have gotten in, I just don't think that any of this gang is good enough.
Big Mac? If I was a voter, I would vote for him, simply because the numbers mean that he deserves to be in. He won't be in this year, but he deserves to be considered when the evidence of what he did or did not do comes out.
2006-08-01 12:04:36 · answer #6 · answered by JohnnyWaffles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. are no-brainer first-ballot guys. Not voting for either of them would be criminal.
I believe that McGwire is the only other player worthy of enshrinement, but I do go back and forth on whether he deserves it after the whole steroid scandal. I know nothing was ever proven, but he's been tainted in my eyes after his horrible Congressional testimony.
Nobody else deserves to be voted in. I get the fact that Mattingly was a very good player, but he didn't have sustained greatness or even a good, lengthy career. I know that injuries cut his career short, and I feel bad for him, but he didn't do enough in his short prime to be worthy. Dominating for a short period before injuries like Koufax or even Ralph Kiner did makes you worthy, but Mattingly was never at that level. And being well-liked shouldn't get you into Cooperstown, IMO.
2006-08-01 11:29:25 · answer #7 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tony Gwynn
Don Mattingly
Dave Parker
Jim Rice
Cal Ripkin
Brett Saberhagen
Bruce Stter is already in as of July 31, 06
2006-08-01 11:06:44 · answer #8 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mcgwire, Gwynn, Ripken jr., Clark, Bonilla, Caminiti, Belle
2006-08-01 12:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by Kyle Thompson 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ripken, Rice, Mattingly, Clark, Gwynn.
2006-08-01 11:05:38 · answer #10 · answered by John W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋