The Mike Mussina Hall of Fame Page

The 2009 Hall of Fame ballot is listed HERE (with fan totals so far).  Over the next month we’ll take a look at who we would be voting for, what the status of the players who are similiar to Mussina is and what the whole voting scenario means for Mussina come 2014.

I have maintained since last January that only 5 players would get my vote come this year’s ballot.  They were:

Rickey Henderson
Jack Morris
Jim Rice
Bert Blyleven
and Alan Trammell

I was very tempted to vote for Lee Smith, but could not do it.  I did however find myself drawn to the great Dale Murphy, who like Mussina played the game as a gentleman and because of that probably never got the recognition he deserved. I have my reasons for not voting for Andre Dawson which I’ll cover in another post, but they mainly deal with his career OBP and OPS.

The higher Blyleven goes the better the case of Mussina.  I think Pat would agree that their cases are near mirror images of each other.  We’ve already covered Blyleven’s chances of reaching the HOF.  As we said he only needs 14% more of the vote this year to make it in.  Here’s hoping he crosses the threshold.  (Jim Rice only needs a handful of votes to get to 75%, in this, his final year on the ballot.)

We’ll cover these HOF voting trends, players cases and toss in some predictions detail in the coming month. The 2009 inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced in the first week of January 2009.

Last 5 posts by Rorschach

• Mussina: The WAR-rior - May 27th, 2010
• Bill James Projects Mussina (sans retirement) - September 23rd, 2009
• Three Quick Things About the Moose - June 21st, 2009
• The Class of 2014 - May 8th, 2009
• Henderson and Rice Elected to HOF - January 13th, 2009

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 under Hall of Fame • Tags: Alan Trammell, Andre Dawson, Berty Blyleven, Dale Murphy, Hall of Fame, Jack Morris, Jim Rice, Lee Smith, Mike Mussina, Rickey Henderson. • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback