January 8, 2008

SI’s Hall of Fame Primary

By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past, Fungoes | 1 comment

If you believe the voters in Sports Illustrated’s online mock voting, today we find out that Travis Fryman’s Hall of Fame candidacy comes to a quick and painless end. (He’s not alone; get a load of Brady Anderson, Shawon Dunston and Todd Stottlemyre’s, ahem, support.)

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There are, of course, two former Tigers on the ballot that have a legitimate shot at the Hall of Fame: Jack Morris and Alan Trammell.

The debate over whether these two Tigers are of Hall of Fame stock continues to rage on across the Internet. Well, rage might be a skosh too strong. Simmer is more like it.

This morning the Detroit News’s Lynn Henning revealed that Trammell reappears on his ballot in 2008. But what about the peeps? What do they have to say about who’s in, who’s out for this year and who’s out for good.

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You can check out the current results here (the ballot is open as of this writing), but in the meantime take a look at how Morris and Trammell fare in the mock voting.

Bottom Line: 85 percent of the voters think Morris is a Hall of Famer, and 58 percent think the same of Tram.

By most accounts, neither Tram nor Morris will be voted in this time around. (Nor will anyone else for that matter.) In time, though, Tigers fans can expect to see at least one of them enshrined.

The only remaining questions are: Who goes first, and is he elected by the writers or the Veterans Committee?

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  1. Lee Panas | Jan 9, 2008 | Reply

    I think Trammell, along with Whitaker, is a much better candidate than Morris. Morris won a lot of games because he played on great teams. He was a very good and durable pitcher but not great. I wouldn’t put him in the HoF. Trammell and Whitaker have not received the attention that they deserve.

    Lee

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