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Eric Chalek
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I turn Negro Leagues, NPB, KBO, etc data into major league equivalencies (MLEs) to answer baseball What Ifs. Read/download at horsehidedragnet.Wordpress.com. And I love cats. And Mexican food.
Don’t think you r wrong! If he were eligible this year instead of 2028, he’d prolly be a first-ballot guy. More a question of how quickly the BBWAA can clear out the top of the returnees and create space where it has fewer electoral priorities.
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I’m wondering whether Yadi will make it in year 1.
If Posey, Utley and Felix are still in 2028 ballot, he won’t. In 2029 he won’t due to Miggy, Votto, Grienke. I think 2030.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Ya but…There’s like 17,000 CFs in the Hall. Third base is a weird tweener position, and careers have a shorter trajectory than in CF (where guys go to the corners all the time). Having Kirby’s career at 3B is more impressive than in CF. IMO.
#baseballhallofmerit
#baseballhall
January 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Even better odds for players at certain PA or IP threshold. The more u get the more likely u get a plaque. Then again, the better u r at baseball, the more playing time u get, natch.
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I had to double check the Tracker to be sure it wasn’t Shaughnessey doing his click-bait best/worst. It wasn’t, and we can all rest easier.
January 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Kinda amazing how Beltran has gained steam as more ballots have revealed. At first he didn’t seem to get a lot of bumps, but it’s turned into a full stampede. Fingers crossed for him at 6:00 PM.
January 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Let’s see…

Edmonds: Yes
Bernie: Maybe
Nathan: Not close
Pap: No
Damon: No
Berkman: Prolly
T Hudson: Yes
Oswalt: Prolly
Salmon: Not close
John and Julio: Neither is close
Mattingly: Not close
L Gonzalez: Prolly
Nomar: No

Yankee fans can now commence screes re [name] is Yes but Don M isn’t close???
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So they r Kosher? Or at least not mystery meat?
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Almost as bad as the breakup of the Jefferson Starship.
January 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
As Dirty Harry put it, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
January 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is me in Mexican restaurants. Started taking Spanish 2.5 years ago, and I know deep inside that every time I do this, I’ve misconjugated something, and I’ve told the staffer that I’d like to order the chef’s hat on a plate of horse hairs with a side of cat’s blood salsa.
January 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I have one word for this bit of Sasaki news, and it’s hyphenated: Woooooooo-Hoooooo!
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Couple that might make 3K or more:
G Scales (lotsa PRWL)
Dihigo
Moises Camacho
Espino (2383 summer H on Ref+1824 LMP)
J Sommers (1614 on Ref+1073 LMP)
Teolindo Acosta (2700 MiL H)
Jethroe
Matias Carillo
Willie Wells
Dandridge
Jack Pierce?
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What! No estados de Mexico y Panama?
January 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I hear “superutility player,” and I think Tony Phillips and Ben Zonrist were magical beasts who once roamed the Earth giving the platoon advantage to their team every night of the year.
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Sasaki is in the Asian MLE spreadsheet on my site, horsehidedragnet.wordpress.com. I think Kim is too
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January 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That’s Hall of Famer, Sherry Robertson. Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer, Sherry Robertson.
January 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Love this!!!
January 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
El Gamo Dominicano=The Dominican Fallow Deer.

[googles around a few minutes]

B/c, of course, the fallow deer is the common Eurasian deer species, as we all know…. ;)
December 30, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I prefer Wright to Donaldson as a Hall case. Weight is juuuust above my line, and Donaldson is below.
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 AM