There are always going to be players at the margin for whatever reason(s) -- no matter what voters are engaged. I expect that if any of us endeavored to choose the 341 [eligible] individuals -- or more so, the 269 players, we believe should be in the HOF, the overlap would be quite large. If you had the current BBWAA vote toward the top 269 today -- no chance they would all be the same -- and it would be different ten years from now even with the same BBWAA voters. The Hall (and its membership) was not built at a point in time. It's a much different proposition when building it over nearly 100 years. I mean, how many of us would include ten umpires?
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