Corridor of Fame season is underway, and after reviewing all eight candidates on the Basic Baseball Period Committtee poll, I’ve gotten a begin on the annual BBWAA poll. With the latter, it’s time to launch what’s grow to be a yearly custom at FanGraphs. Within the spirit of our annual free agent contract crowdsourcing, we’re inviting registered customers to fill out their very own digital Corridor of Fame ballots utilizing a cool gizmo that our developer, Sean Dolinar, constructed a couple of years in the past. I’m additionally going to make use of this web page to put out a tentative schedule for the rest of the sequence, in addition to hyperlinks to the profiles which have been printed.
To take part within the crowdsourcing, you should be signed in, and you could solely vote as soon as. When you don’t should be a FanGraphs Member to take action, this can be a good time to say that shopping for a Membership does assist to fund the event of cool instruments like this — and it makes an excellent vacation reward! To copy the precise voting course of, you could vote for anyplace from zero to 10 gamers; ballots with greater than 10 votes received’t be counted. You might change your poll till the deadline, which is December 31, 2024, the identical as that of the particular BBWAA voters, who should schlep their paper poll to the mailbox.
The poll is right here and comprises all 28 candidates (and no, you continue to can’t write in Pete Rose or Barry Bonds). We’ve acquired tables of profession stats for the poll’s place gamers and pitchers, if that helps, in addition to a checkbox on our leaderboards that lets you see the stats of these already enshrined. As with final 12 months, I’ll write up the crowdsourcing outcomes someday earlier than the announcement of the official outcomes on January 21.
As for the schedule, I’m nonetheless piecing it collectively, so what’s sketched out beneath is incomplete and ought to be considered tentative. I do anticipate a number of first-year candidates with no shot at election — the one-and-dones — working someday in early January, which permits me to give attention to the stronger circumstances earlier than the poll deadline whereas persevering with to pitch in with our protection of free agent offers and different offseason information. This additionally lets me go a bit longer with the profiles of these one-and-done candidates, for whom simply showing on the poll after a powerful profession is its personal reward. With the intention to release house for modern protection, I plan to group collectively transient summaries and updates of some down-ballot candidates, reminiscent of these of pitchers Mark Buehrle and Andy Pettitte, or PED-linked sluggers Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, as comparatively little has modified of their circumstances since final 12 months.
Relaxation assured that I’ll be masking each candidate at size or in short, in line with what I’ve performed for the reason that begin of my JAWS-flavored protection in 2004 (I celebrated the twentieth anniversary again in January). I’m not about to overlook any now. New profiles beneath are denoted with asterisks.
Nov. 18: Intro
Nov. 22: Billy Wagner
Nov. 25: Ichiro Suzuki*
Nov. 26: Carlos Beltrán
Dec. 2: Chase Utley
Dec. 3: Andruw Jones
Dec. 4 CC Sabathia*
Dec. 5 Andy Pettitte/Mark Buehrle
Dec. 6 Félix Hernández*
Dec. 9 Period Committee Outcomes
