Roger Clemens’ Hall of Fame Case

The Hall of Very Good is breaking down the cases for the key candidates on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot. I was happy to help out a fellow Baseball Blogger Alliance member by writing a little bit about Roger Clemens.

The BBA conducts it’s own Hall of Fame vote each year. I’ll most my ballot next week when those results go live. The results of the BBWAA voting will be released Jan 9.

Hall of Fame Announcement day

I am proud to have been accepted as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. One of the perks (and requirements) of this membership is voting in the Alliance’s yearly Hall of Fame poll. This year the BBA has recommended Jeff Bagwell and Barry Larkin for inclusion into the Hall of Fame. My own ballot read as thus:

Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Mark McGwire
Tim Raines
Edgar Martinez
Larry Walker
Alan Trammell

I went back and forth on Walker and Trammell a bit but they compare well with the other candidates according to this graph from Fangraphs:

 

The BBWAA will announce the official Hall of Fame voting results today at 3pm.