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Originally Posted by sycks22
I've never understood how a player can become a HOFer in their 13th or 14th year on the ballot, but not in the first 12 years. If you were a true hall of famer you shouldn't be voted in out of the fact that it was a weak ballot year.
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Sometimes the way that their careers are looked at gain better perspective the longer away it is. Bert Blyleven's numbers came to be viewed in a much different way once sabermetric stats starting coming into vogue. I have the feeling that, if Lou Whitaker and Ted Simmons and (this year) Jim Edmonds had remained on the ballot beyond that first year, their numbers may have been looked at more closely in subsequent years and there could have been a ground swell similar to that which happened with The Flying Dutchman.
Tom C