Andrew's baseball musings

This is purely a summary of what happened and my notes on each player. There will only be notes on players who even received votes on ballots and those who didn't get on a single ballot will not be recorded. Tier one has those who were elected to the hall of fame: Derek Jeter: 396/397 ballots, 99.7% in 1st year of eligibility. Not surprising by any stretch of the means. Larry Walker: 304/397 ballots, 76.6% in last year of eligibility. About time, this was years overdue. Ted Simmons: 13/16 from the Veteran's committee. He was a top tier catcher in the 60's and 70's. Marvin Miller: 12/16 from the Veteran's committee. He was the head of the MLBPA for decades. Tier two has players who missed the cut for 2020 but is still elligible for 2021 and beyond: Our Favorite Trump supporter Curt Schilling: 278/397 ballots, 8th year of eligibility. He would've been in by now if he wasn't such a vile human being because he was a terrific pitcher. Our resident

Rafael Dolis is a relief pitcher who was recently signed to a one year MLB deal by the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League for $1 million as a base salary plus incentives with a club option for the 2021 season for a $1.5 million base salary plus incentives. He's coming back to the MLB after four high quality seasons in the NPB with the Hanshin Tigers of the Central League. What we knew about him before he went to Japan was that he was a fringey AAA/AAAA reliever in parts of three seasons for the Chicago Cubs of the National League is that Dolis didn't get many strikeouts and had issues in limiting walks. The one thing he had going for him was that he was getting a ton of groundballs (55%) in the minors and MLB too. His last two seasons in AAA were trying to say the least since his command and control looked like it would never come back. In the 2016 season, he played for the Hanshin Tigers after a very productive 17 IP in winter ball and had his best season by ERA sinc

Josh Lindblom was an ace in the KBO who looks like a low end #3 starter or a high end #4 starter here in the MLB. He might have a fastball that sits at 91 mph, but his fastball has an especially high spin rate for it's speed, his secondary pitches are very good, especially his splitter and he uses them well. He's got three years and $9.125 million guaranteed and his incentives package which can bring his total to $18 million over those years if he can hit all of them. He'll likely be worth the price and then some. After all, he's better than Merrill Kelly who had already earned his entire guaranteed contract value in one season and the Brewers might just help him improve further. Kwang Hyun Kim is a Korean left hander with a fringey fastball that averages 91 and he's got some filthy secondary pitches, especially his slider. He should be a slightly worse pitcher than Lindblom since he had control and command issues prior to his Tommy John surgery that caused him to

The idea of a protected list is to protect players during an Expansion Draft that may occur sometime in the relatively near future. These lists are my guesses on who would be protected right now and who'd likely be available. In addition, I'd list the player I'd be most inclined to select if I was drafting for an expansion team. This list will be updated when transactions come in and when the 40 man roster changes. Protected list: John Means is a solid pre arbitration pitcher with all three option years intact and only 1 year of service time. He made the all star team last year and is poised to do so more often if Trey Mancini is traded like everyone expects him to be. This is what got Means to the top of my protected list despite the risk that he'll turn into a pumpkin. Trey Mancini is a cheaper Nicholas Castellanos that should either play 1st base or DH instead of the outfield. He's going to be a free agent after 2022 so he's got some trade value and havi

I'll be explaining my picks and non picks respectively. I hope you enjoy this article and please comment future suggestions. Derek Jeter was one of the best hitting shortstops ever and he didn't allow his horrendous defense at shortstop to hinder his chances that much thanks to good baserunning. He doesn't have any moral stains as far as we know, so he's a guaranteed pick for me. Larry Walker was a fantastic outfielder who got it done about as well as any outfielder could as long as he was healthy. For some people, his injury history and the fact that he played in Coors field for years with Coors being extremely hitter friendly puts them off on voting for him. However, he also hit very well away from Coors and that puts him on my hall of fame ballot. Curt Schilling is a disgusting man I'd like to avoid due to his foul comments and hateful political opinion. I'd vote for him in spite of him being a Trump just so he'll shut up. He was a fantastic basebal

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