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People still watch ESPN?

This place is a baseball think tank, after all.

Schadenfreude

Easy. The pea brain can't comprehend any contract signed without deference to surplus value.

Yeah, who ever heard of a prospect regressing and rebounding? I mean, Dave Justice was in AAA for 3 years. If FG had been around then, he'd have been outside their Top 100 too in 1990.

Explains why so many here bailed on him. FG is where they go to find out what they're supposed to think.

He's 3.0 in *some* version of WAR.

The NFL thumps it's chest about reach outside of North America, but appeal is limited. A foreign-born player is usually from a US college in the draft. The NBA has quite a bit more pull internationally, but baseball and hockey have several more competitive countries as power centers, beside...

Just include international players in the regular draft, the way the NHL does with its draft. Then, similarly, allow teams to trade picks.

Certain people just like to hear the sound of their own voices.

Sure you've heard it all before.

He's not even discussed anywhere else but here. The fact that inquiries have been made about more serious 3B's should us all that we need to know.

Despite Chipper having an unreal season, that team was in massive trouble after Big Cat got cancer.

True. '99 Braves were in every game but never in the Series. It doesn't make sense but that was reality. With the Padres, wasn't it Kevin Brown, specifically? So much so that he was heavily targeted to be signed so that they wouldn't have to face him! :JSIDK:

Mazeroski got voted in by the Veterans Committee. So completely different situation. Brooks Robinson had solid offensive credentials. Ozzie Smith, like these other two, had the dramatic post-season. For whatever it matters, Brooks and Ozzie were both obviously very popular with media and fans.

It's as simple as this: the career is over. The player's credentials don't change but perception might.

Never. Some voters won't vote first ballot candidates. That's why nobody has had 100% already.

Went back to Rico's thread. Had Chipper, Thome and Hoffman. Felt that Vlad was more deserving than Thome but might have to wait a year. Looks like it will be at least Chipper, Thome and Vlad.

Who's been telling that when the votes are in, you would all be very disappointed in the results? Most of the writers don't give a flip about FG. More than any other sport, the selection process is transparent. In this morning's USA Today, Their writers shared their votes, and explained...

Got to set up a new thread as a deflection from the childish rant. Transparent strategy.