Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...
After electing only two players (David Ortiz and Scott Rolen) to the Baseball Hall of Fame from 2021 to 2023, the BBWAA course corrected last year, sending three players (Adrian Beltre ...
The bad news is that Andruw Jones will have to wait at least one more year. The good news is that he is on a path similar to the one traveled by former Braves closer Billy Wagner, one of the ...
In the post, Votto thanked many of his former teammates, including Jay Bruce and Scott Rolen, as well as his former coaches such as Dusty Baker and Freddie Benavides.Votto also took time to thank ...
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That puts Wagner in rare company. Since 1966, just one player, Scott Rolen, has been elected to the Hall via the writers’ ballot after receiving a lower share of the vote in his first year on ...
He became eligible in 2023, the year that Cardinals legend Scott Rolen was inducted. Beltran is expected to gain more of the vote this year. However, Joel Reuter of Bleacher Report predicts that ...
While deserving of induction, players like Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, Joe Mauer, Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff carry significantly less sustained market weight than someone like Ichiro.
All this has led to players like Joe Mauer, Todd Helton and Scott Rolen getting elected in recent years -- players the general public might have viewed as borderline, but who were top candidates ...
He is 29.6 points ahead of Wagner after his second year and 22.6 points ahead of former Phillies third basemen Scott Rolen, who reached the hall in 2023 in his sixth year on the ballot.
Scott Rolen spent just two and a half seasons with the Phillies during the 2000s after breaking into the majors in 1996 and winning 1997 NL Rookie of the Year honors, but he did enough in that ...