He was a good player, not a great one. The Hall of Fame is a legacy space, where the greatest players to ever play the game are inducted into it.
He will be the first player inducted into the hall with fewer than 9,000 plate appearances. He was an injury prone player with great defensive stats and mediocre offensive stats.
He never led in any offensive category, batted .220 in 39 postseason games, and he broke down as a player once he turned 30.
He was a solid, good ball player, but nothing special.
Meanwhile, Pete Rose still isn’t in the hall, nor is Clemens, nor is Bonds, nor is Arod.
Rolen got 1 out of 10 votes in his first year on the ballot. No player had ever made the hall who received less than 15% of the vote in their first year on the ballot.
So how in the hell did Rolen shoot up over the years to get 3/4ths of the votes?
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1. "Don't really disagree with you." In response to Reply # 0
Which is weird. But yeah...I guess you could make the case stronger with the Gold Gloves, basically the Brooks Robinson case, but even there, Robinson had 16 of them. I don't know. He wouldn't get my vote.
2. "I couldnt even remember who he was at first. Ha" In response to Reply # 0
I saw Gary Sheffield and Manny Ramirez were on the list of people that got passed over. Id rather watch them a million times over than ever look up the name Scott Rolen
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At this point, I’m not gonna be up in arms about any of these choices. Once Bonds and Clemens were officially passed over last year (and on the special ballot this year), I just gotta laugh at this stuff honestly. Still, seeing Rolen get in while A-Rod and Manny are languishing in the 30-40% range is absurd.
If it had been ONE ballot where the writers made a statement about roids, fine, but to continually punish almost all the greats of an era for a thing MLB knew they were doing (and didn’t care) is stupid.
8. "RE: writers are just squinting at anybody that could be a fringe HOF can..." In response to Reply # 6
>as long as they aren't one of those dreaded PED users -- oh >wait, they've elected them too -- I mean, one of those PED >users they don't like
I was about to say, Ortiz tested positive but the media liked him. Both Bagwell and Biggio had whispers around them their entire careers. Hell that entire organization at the time did.
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