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Originally Posted by BioCRN
He's going to need vets that didn't play with him or his peers. He wasn't well liked by many players, managers, or front-office guys before his...let's just call it post-retirement hobbies.
The "Wakefield incident" is yet another self-own unforced error for no reason whatsoever.
His skills say 2nd or 3rd ballot HOF'r at worst.
You have to be quite a remarkable person to manage to miss 10 ballots and only get 7 out of 16 votes in your first Vet's Committee vote.
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Seems like he thought the Vets Committee would vote him, I remember him saying he wanted to removed from the ballot on his last go around so that his peers could vote him in.