As I mentioned in the World Chat, we dropped the ball a bit last season and didn't elect anyone to the Hall of Fame here in Plumpy. I take quite a bit of responsibility for that as I had stuff going on in real life and it was Year 1 of my Commissionership here so I personally dropped the ball and also wasn't able to get a blog post up on the subject. I've seen a great response in terms of activity since I made a public plea on the World Chat for HOF voting, so I just wanted to take a minute to highlight the players whose names have come up and if I have time I'll move onto the other typical categories that I look at (players closest to election previously and first-year candidates.)
Quick reminder that the metric I have found most useful is one that I call "Importance Score," which combines WAR/year and awards (personal accomplishments) with World Series Rings (team accomplishments) to give a good, holistic picture of a player's career. Anyone who reaches double digits on the Importance Score scale is worthy of eventually getting into the HOF...I have a suspicion that we will have more than five of those guys, so we should prioritize the ones who have been on the ballot for awhile and/or have the highest scores. Let's see where things stand:
Guys Who Have Been Mentioned in World Chat
- Antonio Frandsen- 13.7 Importance Score (and there are a couple of seasons of data missing)
- Alex Salas* - not enough data to calculate Importance Score yet
- Randy Pose* - 12.7 Importance Score (and there are several seasons of data missing)
- Quinton Strickland* - 3.3 Importance Score (with a bunch of seasons of data missing)
- Julius Kaufman* -12.8 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Chick Prades - 21.0 Importance Score (with several seasons of data missing)
- Gorkys Garces* - 7.2 Importance Score (with a bunch of seasons of data missing)
- York Bonds- 8.8 Importance Score (with several seasons of data missing)
- Kiki Zurbaran- 4.2 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
Guys Who Have Come Closest To Election Previously
- The five names above that have asterisks* next to their names
First Year Candidates
- Frandsen (see above)
- Tomas Cairo - 3.6 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Quilvio Noesi - 3.2 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Everett Stewart - 6.5 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
The Rest of the Ballot
- Renato Alvarado-no data yet
- Denny Burriss-no data yet
- Jose Cedeno- 7.4 Importance Score (a bunch of seasons missing)
- Marlon DeJean-not enough data to calculate Importance Score yet
- Dixie Goforth-no data yet
- Julio Gonzalez- 8.6 Importance Score (a bunch of seasons missing)
- Henderson Jackson-not enough data to calculate Importance Score yet
- Jeremy Kershaw-not enough data to calculate Importance Score yet
- Shane Porter-no data yet
- Chuck Richardson-no data yet
- Orlando Rienzo- 3.7 Importance Score (a few seasons missing)
- Maicer Rosales-not enough data to calculate Importance Score yet
- Ronn Shannon-no data yet
- Miguel Silva-no data yet
- Noel Strop-no data yet
- Rafael Torrez-no data yet
- Mac Zheng-no data yet
- Luigi Almanzar- 4.2 Importance Score (several seasons missing)
- George Bermudez- 5.6 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Edward Coomer - 9.5 Importance Score (a bunch of seasons missing)
- Bruce Cosart- 12.7 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Freddie Daly- 1.2 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Sammy Delgado- 0.4 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Santos Espinosa- 2.1 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Enrique Lee- 8.7 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Julian Matos- 6.6 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Adam Maybin- 8.0 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Riccio Oliva- 8.4 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Victor Olmedo- 7.9 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
- Pep Wanatabe- 6.5 Importance Score w/Estimated Career WAR
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