MLB Off-Topic

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

What? All 400 BBWAA voters, ranging from active writers to guys who haven't covered baseball in decades, are meeting up somehow during December to determine which one of them won't vote for Ichiro? I'm not following here. Are you confusing this with the Veterans Committee, where 16 people are in the same room (or more likely, the same Zoom meeting) while discussing candidates? And there have been a grand total of 2 players who have been one vote shy of unanimous election - Ichiro and Jeter. https://www.mlb.com/news/highest-vot...l-hall-of-fame

so it is total happenstance, who would've thunk

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

so it is total happenstance, who would've thunk

The guy who didn't vote for Jeter thought that he wasn't eligible yet (or so he claims).

He's a 75-year-old hack from San Diego who's either a moron or still bitter about 1998 (both plausible). I imagine the reason for Ichiro's snub is something similarly dumb.

[Majingir]

It's probably going to be something stupid like it's a writer from Oakland who didn't even submit a ballot because they didn't realize they were still voting even though the team doesn't exist there anymore.