Your 2016 HOF Vote

[Stradling]

"Torrii Hunter and Hideki Matsui"

-Claude

[Troll Daddy]

I'm still waiting for a Angels representative in the Hall of Fame.

[AngelsLakersFan]

He'll get in because of his offensive numbers at the catcher position. I wouldn't vote for him, at least not first go around. 77% stealing success rate is just crazy for a HOF catcher. Dude allowed 1400 stolen bases! 

 

So if you had the chance to draft them today to play their entire careers with the Angels, you would draft Lee Smith ahead of Mike Piazza? I can't see any logic in that.

[Thomas]

So if you had the chance to draft them today to play their entire careers with the Angels, you would draft Lee Smith ahead of Mike Piazza? I can't see any logic in that.

 

 

Scioscia would just bench Piazza then have him traded for the worst possible contract not already signed to the Angels. 

 

/half joking

[nate]

Griffey

Bagwell

Piazza

Hoffman

Lee Smith

 

[mancini79]

I have updated the AWin results thus far on the initial post. So far ONLY Griffey and Piazza would make the Hall. If anyone gets their votes in before Wednesday 3pm PT, I'll update the percentages.

[happybat4]

We are tougher than the actual HOF voters. Im suprized you guys have Bagwell and Raines so low. Usually 70 WAR players are shoe ins (Except for Lofton and Whitaker who both were off on the first ballot).

[nate]

How could you leave off Hoffman?  And Bagwell?  Two all time greats.

[Erstad Grit]

So if you had the chance to draft them today to play their entire careers with the Angels, you would draft Lee Smith ahead of Mike Piazza? I can't see any logic in that.

 

I'd draft Piazza and put him at DH

[AngelsLakersFan]

I'd draft Piazza and put him at DH

 

So you'd take Piazza over Lee Smith, but vote Smith for the Hall and not Piazza?? Does not compute.

[Homebrewer]

I left Piazza off because I'm not sure that the hall is ready to admit an openly gay player.

[Erstad Grit]

So you'd take Piazza over Lee Smith, but vote Smith for the Hall and not Piazza?? Does not compute.

 

Smith was a top  elite closer. I guess one could hypothetically muse that Piazza could have been a top DH, but he was not. He was a horrendous catcher with a HOF swing. I'm not really sure what I'd do with that. The same decision involves Edgar Martinez. Should such a one dimensional player get in? 

[Homebrewer]

Lee Smith was an overpowering giant on the mound. I saw him pitch many times at Wrigley where, like Bob Gibson, he was such a dominating presence, it was like a man against boys.  Percival credits him as his major influence.

 

Fact is..."There are five relief pitchers currently in the Hall of Fame, and incredibly – Lee Smith has more career saves than all of them. More than Dennis Eckersley. More than Rollie Fingers. More than Goose Gossage. More than Hoyt Wilhelm. And even more than Bruce Sutter."

[East Coast Bias]

I'd go with:

 

Griffey (Lock)

Piazza 

Bagwell 

Hoffman

 

Will be interesting to see if Griffey is the first unanimous choice.  Still on the fence about Bonds and Clemens but their talent would have gotten them into the Hall without the PEDs, especially Bonds....

[mancini79]

Here are the final results. The bold is the HOF ballot percentages. We elected the same players and for the most part the percentages were close. The biggest difference is Schilling with over a 30% difference. Stupid East Coast bias! It will be interesting to see next year's results since Raines has a way to go with our members but is pretty close to the HOF. Next year is looking great for Raines to get in the Hall.

 

Griffey 100%  99.3%

Piazza 76.9%  83.0%

Bagwell 65.4%  71.6%

Hoffman 57.7%  67.3%

Raines 53.9%  69.8%

Bonds 50.0%  44.3%

Clemens 42.3%  45.2%

Trammell 42.3%  40.9%

Edgar Martinez 34.6%  43.4%

Mussina 30.7%  43.0%

McGriff 23.1%  20.9%

McGwire 23.1%  12.3%

Schilling 19.2%  52.3%

Sosa 19.2%  7.0%

Lee Smith 19.2%  34.1%

Kent 15.4%  16.6%

Wagner 7.7%  10.5%

Sheffield 7.7%  11.6%

Edmonds 7.7%  2.5%

Garrett Anderson 3.9%  0.2%

Lowell 0%  0%

Luis Castillo 0%  0%

Brad Ausmus 0%  0%

Eckstein 0%  0.5%

Garciaparra 0%  1.8%

Glaus 0%  0%

Mike Sweeney 0%  0.7%

Grudzielanek 0%  0%

Mike Hampton 0%  0%

Jason Kendall 0%  0.5%

Larry Walker 0%  15.5%

Randy Winn 0%  0%