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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I don't normally subscribe to old school ways of interpreting the sport of baseball...but if Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron didn't get 100% of the vote...I'm not sure why I should care that Ichiro didn't get 100% of the vote.
Hell, Mantle was 43 votes short of a unanimous selection.
Rickey Henderson, who was worth almost 2 Ichiro's, via the WAR statistic, was left off of 28 ballots.
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Agree 100%. I will add Lou Gehrig and Roberto Clemente. if they can't get 100% when they are the only one on the ballot and no doubt Hall of Famers, then Ichiro, maybe the 10th best RF, and Jeter, maybe the 10th best SS, getting within 1 vote of 100% is remarkable.
I can see Mariano getting 100%. He is no doubt the best relief pitcher ever. Unless for some reason you don't think relievers belong in the HOF, how could you not vote for him? If Ichiro and Jeter only had only 1 hold out, then Albert Pujols has to be unanimous, doesn't he? Going forward, maybe Ohtani, depending on how his career finishes. But saying some random player should have been 100% just because he belongs in the HOF makes no sense.