Durham Bulls Hall of Fame Ballot
With the latest crop of Baseball Hall of Fame inductees announced Wednesday night, we thought we here at the DBAP would put together a composite front office Hall of Fame ballot. Below were the voting guidelines:
- Can vote for up to 10 players
- The Top 10 vote getters will be the ones who appear on our ballot
- Must be on 50% of all submitted ballots to make our final, composite ballot
- Only individuals who have worked three full seasons in the front office are eligible to vote
- All votes were cast prior to the induction announcement
After the votes were cast, the Bulls’ front office Hall of Fame ballot would look like this:
The only unanimous pick among the voters was Chipper Jones (perhaps unsurprisingly, as he’s a former Bull). After that, in order, were the following:
Roger Clemens (91%)
Jim Thome, Vladmir Guerrero, Barry Bonds (73%)
Trevor Hoffman (64%)
Others receiving multiple votes:
Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa (45%)
Fred McGriff, Andruw Jones, Curt Schilling (36%)
Edgar Martinez, Hideki Matsui (27%)
Some comments from the voters on why they did/did not vote for certain players:
“I obviously don’t care that much about steroids. I think for the most part those players would have been great regardless. Plus, I think baseball didn’t care that they were on steroids until the public cared. Home runs were good for baseball and they didn’t care how they happened. They literally changed the ball this year to get more home runs.”
“Barry Bonds hit the crap out of the ball. I don’t care about the steroids because the pitchers were using, too.”
“Sammy Sosa brought excitement back to the game and made baseball relevant with his home run battle with McGwire.”
“Andruw Jones hit over 400 home runs and has 10 gold gloves. He deserves it.”
“Designated hitters do not deserve to get in. Plus, Edgar Martinez has a pretty weak case in terms of numbers.”
What do y’all think? Did we get it right?
