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 revealed.
To take part within the crowdsourcing, you have to be signed in, and you might solely vote as soon as. When you don’t must be a FanGraphs Member to take action, it is 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 amazing vacation reward! To duplicate the precise voting course of, you might vote for wherever from zero to 10 gamers; ballots with greater than 10 votes received’t be counted. Chances are you’ll change your poll till the deadline, which is December 31, 2024, the identical as that of the particular BBWAA voters, who must schlep their paper poll to the mailbox.
The poll is right here and incorporates all 28 candidates (and no, you continue to can’t write in Pete Rose or Barry Bonds). We’ve received tables of profession stats for the poll’s place gamers and pitchers, if that helps, in addition to a checkbox on our leaderboards that permits you to 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 under 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 — operating someday in early January, which permits me to deal with 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. As a way to release area for modern protection, I plan to group collectively transient summaries and updates of some down-ballot candidates, corresponding to 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 overlaying each candidate at size or in short, in line with what I’ve performed because the 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 under 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
