Total Bases Podcast: S3E2: The Baseball Hall of Fame Show, Part II

Austin (Twitter: @Round_Trippers) and Felipe (@pathological_h8) are joined by Dan to discuss the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot as the guys try to gauge the chances that first-year candidates Carl Crawford, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard, Tim Lincecum, Justin Morneau, Joe Nathan, David Ortiz, Jonathan Papelbon, Jake Peavy, A.J. Pierzynski, Alex Rodriguez, Jimmy Rollins, and Mark Teixeira have in getting inducted into Cooperstown.

The guys start out by discuss the position players on the ballot and how each player's stat compares to their peers since 1980. They do the same analysis for starting and relief pitchers before the podcast discloses who they would have voted for if they had a vote in the Baseball HOF ballot.

Discussions about moral character and how to handle PED/steroid users also arose in the conversation with all three hosts having differing viewpoints on the subject matter.

Check out all the players on the ballot, as well as their stats, here:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2022.shtml

You can listen to Part I of our discussion from last year of the BBWAA ballot here:  

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4odK2dM6fWeT7MGYt2Roq4?si=54a3bc33c9f84f3d

Catch all of Season 2's episodes and visual on our YouTube page:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7rurb8sZLymR3rjJGHOR7qJywDoyxkz3

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