Thursday, December 27, 2018

Newsletter Excerpt, December 27, 2018 -- "My Ballot"

This is an excerpt from the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider. Joe Sheehan is a founding member of Baseball Prospectus and a contributor to Sports Illustrated and Baseball America. He has been writing about baseball for more than 20 years.

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"I don’t, and likely never will, have a vote, so I don’t have to adhere to the ten-man limit. With that in mind, these are the 11 players on the ballot I consider fully qualified for the Hall of Fame:

Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Roy Halladay
Edgar Martinez
Mike Mussina
Andy Pettitte
Manny Ramirez
Mariano Rivera
Scott Rolen
Curt Schilling
Sammy Sosa"