My 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot
When thinking about the Hall of Fame every year I struggle with this question: What does it mean to be a Hall of Famer? The reasoning behind my frustration and confusion because by saying someone is a “Hall of Famer” it brings upon certain elite criteria and preconceived notions about how dominate said player has to be in order to get into the Hall of Fame. What also happens is people start comparing the player you bring up with the best of the best in the Hall of Fame. The type of players that make it impossible to finish the conversation. However, that conversation needs to be had because what I think is missing thanks to some of the writers and majority of the veteran’s committee is a solid baseline to make sure the player about to walk into the doors of immortality stack up with the rest of the men already invited into the party. Last year in my 2019 ballot I created what I thought to be the new baseline for the Hall of Fame. I selected five players: Andy Pettitte, Roy Holiday,