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 ...