Baseball Writers Association of America/HOF

[Fred]

That is DEEP. Interesting question. I think the HOF voting has been a mess for ages. One example is Bruce Sutter. Please, don't get me wrong here. I have lots of good memories of Bruce Sutter. He was a good pitcher, however... he played 12 seasons and had a sub 3.00 ERA in 7/12 seasons. He also had an ERA > 4.00 in 4/12 seasons (that's a third of his career, actually about 30% of his career if you count the number of games). Add to that a less than .500 lifetime W/L record. Was he good? Yes. Was he GREAT? Unless you use a watered down basis of great I don't think he passes that test. Sorry to you Bruce Sutter fans, I had to use someone as the example (and there are plenty of others).

Maybe there's a better way to do the HOF voting. Yes, sadly, we're losing a lot of writers but does it really matter when you think of them as voters for the HOF?