Loading ...Over at BP, Jay Jaffe has this post on what happened today with the Veterans Committee:
Moments ago, the Hall of Fame announced the Veterans Committee voting results, and as the “new VC” has done twice before, they laid a goose egg despite the presence of a handful of eminently qualified candidates on the ballot. Ron Santo, who towers head-and-shoulders over every other playing candidate, toppped the voting at 69.5 percent, meaning he fell five votes short of election. Also topping 50 percent among players were Jim Kaat (63.4), Gil Hodges (61), and Tony Oliva (57.3). Besides Santo, the two other candidates that the JAWS system tabbed as worthy weren’t even close. Joe Torre received 31.7 percent, down from his 2005 total of 45 percent. That’s a tacit recognition that he needs his managerial credentials (four rings, six pennants, 11 divisions, one Wild Card) to get over the hump. Dick Allen received just 13.4 percent of the vote.
Go read the entire thing; it’s worth your time.
I mention this mostly to point to this article about Redleg Nation favorite Vada Pinson, who received just 20% of the vote from the Veterans Committee. It’s a nice look back at the career of one of the more consistently under-rated Reds of all-time.
Santo was better than a good number of players currently in the HOF.
I love Pinson. He ranks up there on my favorite Reds who I never saw play. Well I probably saw him play but was too young to remember but I doubt he’s HOF material
Then again. If you are one of the top 30 to ever play your position aren’t you possibly deserving?
Pinson was great. Sure he was no Jr or Roush but better than Eric Davis and Mike Donlin.
mike
Pinson was also one of my favorites. I always thought that he hung around the game about 3 years too long. I wonder if those last few years as a reserve hurt his chances now. He’s much like Paul O’Neill, an excellent/nearly great career, but not quite HOF.
Santo not getting in is nothing short of a crime. I just don’t see how a not casting a vote for Santo is justified.
CHECK THE STATS……. VADA NEEDS AND DESERVES TO BE IN THE HALL..HE HAS THE NUMBERS
AND IF YOU EVER SAW HIM PLAY…HE WAS BETTER THAN HIS NUMBERS…..MY FAVORITE PLAYER THEN….AND I STILL AM IN HIS CORNER… LETS GET HIM IN.. HOORAH !!
KENT OVERLIN SMITH
Vada made the mistake of playing in the same era as Mays, Clemente, Aaron, Kaline, Robinson, Yaz, Mantle, Brock. Like Concepcion, he gets overlooked because of the company he kept. If he had played in the 80s he would be in the Hall easy.