Season 55 Hall of Fame Voting

by bruinsfan911 5:09 PM 0 comments

 As with the past few seasons, I am going to base both my ballot and this blog post off of the previous season's voting results in an effort to find the sweet spot between the players with the most support and those with careers worthy of election. Just as a refresher, I am going to look at the top five players who didn't cross the threshold and evaluate them using the Wins Above Replacement metric to see where they stack up against the competition. To start, let's look at last season's voting results:

With Ethier and Guerrero safely enshrined in Virtual Cooperstown, the five with the most support who fell short last year are: Fred Sparks (11 votes), Elian Rojas Jr (10 votes), Maikel Romano (10 votes), Theodore Reames (8 votes) and Glen Lowell/Harry Espinosa (7 votes each.) The career WAR of those six is listed below: 

1) Theodore Reames, 72 Estimated Career WAR

2) Fred Sparks, 63 Estimated Career WAR

3) Maikel Romano, 62 Estimated Career WAR

t-4) Elian Rojas Jr, 61 Estimated Career WAR

t-4) Harry Espinosa, 61 Estimated Career WAR

5) Glen Lowell, 43 Estimated Career WAR

Other candidates that have been mentioned on the World Chat include: 

• Enrique Guzman, 102 Estimated Career WAR
• Guillermo Gutierrez, 79 Estimated Career WAR
• Tripp Uribe, 40 Estimated Career WAR
• Al Cabrera, 50 Estimated Career WAR
• Osvaldo Lee, 53 Estimated Career WAR
• James Moore, 67 Estimated Career WAR
• Don Wang, 41 Estimated Career WAR

Out of all the candidates discussed above, the following are the top five:

1) Enrique Guzman, 102 Estimated Career WAR

2) Guillermo Gutierrez, 79 Estimated Career WAR

3) Theodore Reames, 72 Estimated Career WAR

4) James Moore, 67 Estimated Career WAR

5) Fred Sparks, 63 Estimated Career WAR