Congrats Bruce and Go Braves!
Posted on 01/10/2006 11:09:01 AM PST by commish
Edited on 01/10/2006 12:59:51 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Was really hoping Gossage would get in too.
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Only Sutter? How can you vote in Sutter but not Gossage!
Agree Completely. Ifully expected to see Sutter and Gossage get in, and felt Jim Rice had an outside shot.
OH well, I'll be interested to see how the votes broke out. I wonder where Albert Belle fell in the voting -- I am hoping less than 10%.
Congrats Bruce and Go Braves!
I really thought Rice would get the call this year.
Rice never treated the media well. They are paying him back....
Sutter 76.5%, Rice 64.8%, Gossage 64.5% is the breakout for top 3.
So was I. Goose had 22 years in the majors to 12 for Sutter and also had better overall stats. I don't know what it is about Gossage but it appears many don't want to see him in the Hall.
Shout out for Lee Smith!
There was no story, just the announcement, when I posted.
No Pete Rose?
"Bruce. Bruce. Bruce..."
2006 Hall of Fame
voting results
The complete vote (520 ballots, 390 to gain election, 26 to remain on ballot):
Player Votes %
Bruce Sutter 400 76.9%
Jim Rice 337 64.8%
Rich Gossage 336 64.6%
Andre Dawson 317 61.0%
Bert Blyleven 277 53.3%
Lee Smith 234 45.0%
Jack Morris 214 41.2%
Tommy John 154 29.6%
Steve Garvey 135 26.0%
Alan Trammell 92 17.7%
Dave Parker 75 14.4%
Dave Concepcion 65 12.5%
Don Mattingly 64 12.3%
Orel Hershiser 58 11.2%
Dale Murphy 56 10.8%
Albert Belle 40 7.7%
Will Clark 23 4.4%
Dwight Gooden 17 3.3%
Willie McGee 12 2.3%
Ozzie Guillen 5 1.0%
Hal Morris 5 1.0%
Gary Gaetti 4 0.8%
John Wetteland 4 0.8%
Rick Aguilera 3 0.6%
Gregg Jefferies 2 0.4%
Doug Jones 2 0.4%
Walt Weiss 1 0.2%
Gary DiSarcina 0 0.0%
Alex Fernandez 0 0.0%
Which hat?
Well, you know what Jim Rome always says.
"If you gotta make a case for them to go to the Hall, then they don't belong there."
Not this year...
Gossage will have to realize he is going to have to settle for the Mustache Hall of Fame.
Makes no sense to put Sutter in, but not Gossage. IMO. Yeah, Gossage's ERA was slightly higher, but he played a lot longer, and had a better W-L record. Maybe he stayed around too long, but he had a longer stretch of good years.
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