Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Veteran's Committee Approved Hall of Fame Ballot for Season 30

In order to streamline our Hall of Fame voting and help to ensure that the maximum amount of worthy candidates are inducted, I conducted a poll of our long standing owners with 20 or more seasons in the league (13 of us).  They were asked to say whether or not a list 30 top players from the list of Hall nominees were Hall worthy or not.  The intent was to both pare down future lists of folks to consider for Hall induction and to determine this season's 5 top nominees. The top 5 vote getters (who appear on the official ballot) will be are official list for this season. Anyone not getting over 50% of the committee vote will be dropped from consideration for future Hall discussions. Here are the results of that vote (9 people participated):

Hall Worthy
9 - Vic GonzalesJavier GonzalezKent Crawford
7 - Brandon SuttonJames HunterEnrique Cordero
6 - Bernard SpringerHiram AbbottPlacido Santana
5 - Virgil Manning

Dropped from Future Consideration
4 - Alan LongHoward Sweeney
3 - Bruce LewisJuan MiroArmando Taveras
2 - Bing MilesJavier ValdesAlfonso TrajanoKordell BeckerRyuu ChoiWes Roosevelt
1 - Clyde RedmondPascual MartinAlejandro VazquezCarson Graves, Donatello BolleaTodd O'SullivanVictor Lima
0 - Cliff RiversEnrique Gonzales

For this years ballot, we had two folks at the top, Crawford and Cordero, who were not nominated and so cannot be official candidates this season.  So besides Gonzales, Gonzalez, Sutton, and Hunter, one person needed to be chosen from those with 6 votes to be our 5th selection.  The results of the run-off election were as follows (7 voters):
3 - Springer
2 - Abbott, Santana

So our official Season 30 HOF ballot is as follows:
Vic Gonzales
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Age: 40B/T: R/R
Born: Monte Cristi, DO
Position(s): DH
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Javier Gonzalez
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Age: 42B/T: R/R
Born: Jicome Esperanza, DO
Position(s): P (SP2)
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James Hunter
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Age: 41B/T: R/R
Born: Pearl City, IL
Position(s): DH/1B
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Bernard Springer
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Age: 38B/T: R/R
Born: Sturgis, SD
Position(s): DH
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Brandon Sutton
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Age: 39B/T: L/L
Born: Oskaloosa, KS
Position(s): DH/1B
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