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Originally Posted by Mike D.
Yes, Schilling is a world-class knob, but to date that's not been enough to keep anyone else out of the Hall of Fame (it's PED's, gambling, and domestic abuse to date). He should have been voted in by the writers.
With the committees, who knows when he'll get on a ballot (could be as early as next year) and when he does, who he'll be on with and will he get elected.
Sabathia and Schilling did overlap by a few years, but Schilling's debut was 13 years before Sabathia, making them sort of a different generation of pitchers. Going forward, what a Hall of Fame starting pitcher looks like is going to be really hard to figure out!
I think both Kent and Utley belong. Not sure why Kent didn't get that much love on the ballot.
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Kent also had a reputation for being a world-class knob. No comment on whether it's deserved or not... but he was widely reviled as a human. So if he doesn't get in, he might test your theory that Schilling is the only one disqualified for knobbery.