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January 23, 2024: Number Seven

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We find out today if Joe is going to the Hall of Fame.

Joe Mauer's 2024 Hall of Fame ballot percentage will be

  • 75-79.9% (63%, 10 Votes)
  • 80-84.9% (25%, 4 Votes)
  • 70-74.9% (13%, 2 Votes)
  • 85%-100% (0%, 0 Votes)
  • 60-69.9% (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Under 60% (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 16

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40 thoughts on “January 23, 2024: Number Seven”

  1. Licey scored three in the first inning and defeated Estrellas 5-0 yesterday. Miguel Sano was 1-for-4. Lewin Diaz was 0-for-4. Yangervis Solarte was 1-for-2 with a double. Vidal Brujan was 2-for-4. Starter Andy Otero took the loss, pitching just 1.2 innings and allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits while striking out one.

    Estrellas still leads the best-of-seven series 2-1.

    1. Yes. If he doesn't make it this year, he'll be really, really close, and will almost certainly get there eventually.

  3. We should have a mini contest or poll on what percentage we think Joe will get. He's still hovering around 83% with 54 percent of known ballots.

      2. We've been eating a lot of soup lately so I've been thinking about good sandwich pairings. Cream of tomato soup with grilled cheese is a classic. Chili and a cheeseburger are naturals. A club or BLT with navy bean soup is pretty awesome. Pastrami or corned beef on rye with matzo ball. Must be lunch time, I'm getting hungry.

        1. All of these are excellent suggestions.

          just a couple days ago I had a quesabirria with a cup of birria consomme. THAT is a combo to remember. Mmmm, birria.

          two frequent combos from my childhood: chili with saltines schmeared with peanut butter (that's open-face sandwiches!); and bean soup with either a ham-and-cheese sandwich or braunschweiger and cheese sandwich.

  5. Here's hoping for something cool for Joe today.

    For those who doubt his chances they must have forgotten he has unexpected Pauer.

    1. I don’t know if I can make it work, but I added a calendar hold on the old Outlook account for July 19-21 this morning, just in case.

  21. Torii sticks around on the ballot another year with 7.8% of the vote, even though personally I wish he'd just drop off. The CF voting is pretty messed up from that standpoint, IMO. Hunter is just obviously not a HOFer, but I think that both Beltran and Jones are good candidates, at least from an on-field perspective.

    It still grinds my gears that Kenny Lofton fell off the first ballot, but I have a sliver of sympathy for the voters, at least some of them. Lofton's ballot was the 2013 ballot which was mental. There are 10 eventual HOFers on that ballot (Biggio, Morris, Bagwell, Piazza, Raines, Lee Smith, Edgar Martinez, Trammell, Walker, and McGriff). On top of those 10 HOFers, you have Schilling, Clemens, Bonds, and Sosa all on their first ballot, with Mark McGwire still around, too. Despite (or perhaps because of) all that talent (and the 10,vote maximum), no one was elected that year, which IMO is quite a black mark against the BBWAA and their process.

    That said, if Lofton had gotten Sosa's 12.5% and Sosa had gotten Lofton's 3.2%, then Lofton would have stuck around and I think eventually gained more traction. The Don Mattingly truthers and their 13% of the vote certainly weren't helping Lofton's cause either.

    Victor Martinez dropping off in the first ballot this year is both deserved, but also seems kind of harsh when he is #31 in catcher JAWS. He had a damn good career, even if it falls short of the HOF (not unlike Torii.)

    We could also just drop Mark Buehrle from the ballot, too, as far as I'm concerned. His case is really weak -- his JAWS isn't good enough, but aside from that, his Black Ink and Gray Ink scores are not good (so he wasn't super high on individual leaderboards) and his HOF Standards score is low (so he wasn't getting a ton of awards during his career, either.) 2-1 record over 4 starts in the postseason isn't really so overwhelming to add something to his case there, either. Great pitcher, not a HOFer.

    It's weird seeing A-Rod and Manny stick around on the ballot, as it is basically just a referendum on what percentage of voters don't care about steroid use. 30-35% is the answer, apparently.

    The support for Gary Sheffield is kind of interesting -- he's at best a marginal candidate, but he also was sentenced to probation three different times and generally seems, let's say, difficult to get along with. Plus his questionable-at-best comments about Latino players back in 2007. That sort of stuff usually pushes you farther down the ballot.

  23. Four votes. That was the margin.

    I guess this reminds me of the old joke about what you call the guy who graduated last in his medical school class...Doctor.

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