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2008 Hall of Fame Ballot

Tim Raines
Goose Gossage
Mark McGwire
Bert Blylevin

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Jack Morris
Don Mattingly
Harold Baines
Goose Gossage

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Blyleven
Mattingly
Dawson
John

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educate me. is Lee Smith deserving? i never saw him pitch

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Looking at Tim Raines' career stats, goddamn he was good. But he has no chance of actually getting in, right?

Blyleven
Raines
Trammell
Gossage
Mark [censored] McGwire

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Lee Smith is a guy who pitched pretty well for a very long time and accumulated a lot of saves. He didn't have many seasons where he was particularly dominating, like Eckersley and Rivera. He wasn't instrumental in the development of the closer role, like Sutter and Gossage. I think that Smith will be an interesting case for the HOF because he's the first player of his type to be eligible for the HOF but there's a handful of borderline players (Hoffman, Reardon, Wagner, Franco) that will be coming up in the next decade that are similar. Rivera is the only closer that I think is a shoe-in.

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Bert Blyleven
Goose Gossage
Mark McGwire
Jack Morris
Tim Raines
Pete Rose
Lee Smith

on the bubble:
Alan Trammell

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• Bert Blyleven
• Rich "Goose" Gossage
• Tommy John
• Mark McGwire
• Tim Raines
• Alan Trammell

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Jack Morris and Lee Smith over Alan Trammell? lol

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Looking at Tim Raines' career stats, goddamn he was good. But he has no chance of actually getting in, right?


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I was under the impression that Tim Raines was a lock to make it.