Biggio misses the HOF by 0.2%

[Lukus Alderman]

Glavin, Maddox, and Frank Thomas make it, but Biggio barely misses in year #2.

 

[Hornitos]

Travesty. Of course, if he'd have played on a team anywhere on the east coast he'd have made it on the first ballot. Just another reason why baseball blows. They don't get it.

 

[Alouha27]

What a load of crap! And Bagwell's votes went down this year.

 

[caspiderman]

Glavin is riding the Maddux wave. He wasn't a great pitcher for very long.

 

[HornSolo]

Sorry but this sux's. He should have been in last year.

 

[Alouha27]

Sorry but this sux's. He should have been in last year.

I agree. Houston gets no national respect. Never has.

 

[acdirtbag]

this is carzy! the baseball writers need to change their thinking! the way they vote and who gets a vote is so old school- He will get in next year! Go 'stros

 

[inthesouth]

Glavin is riding the Maddux wave. He wasn't a great pitcher for very long.

He has more All Star seasons than Craig Biggio ( 10 vs 7), thats for sure. He has 2 Cy Youngs, Biggio has no MVP. He was Top 3 in Cy Young voting 4 other times.. Biggio was top 5 in MVP twice.

 

[Juan]

6 of these fokkers changed a last year yes vote to a no.

 

[Alouha27]

He has more All Star seasons than Craig Biggio ( 10 vs 7), thats for sure. He has 2 Cy Youngs, Biggio has no MVP. He was Top 3 in Cy Young voting 4 other times.. Biggio was top 5 in MVP twice.

Trying to compare those two is apples to oranges. Biggio's numbers speak for themselves, and so do Glavin's. Both should be in the HOF.

 

[txscallywag]

He has more All Star seasons than Craig Biggio ( 10 vs 7), thats for sure. He has 2 Cy Youngs, Biggio has no MVP. He was Top 3 in Cy Young voting 4 other times.. Biggio was top 5 in MVP twice.

7 time All Star at two positions (catcher and 2nd base)

4 Golden Gloves

5 Silver Sluggers

21st all-time with 3,060 career hits

9th player in the 3,000 hit club, all with same team

1 of 4 players in the 3,000 hit club yet to be inducted into the HoF (Pete Rose-Gambling, Derek Jeter-Active, Rafael Palmeiro)

Glavin was a great pitcher, and I may be biased, but Biggio should have been the third. IMO anyways.

 

[DougNTexas]

There has to be a better way to do it.

 

[Chitownhorn]

It's a shame. He should be in there and should have been in last year.

 

[Davharjac]

Not a big baseball fan, but it seems like the Baseball writers association is a bunch of guys who don't think very progressively..but then again that's baseball

 

[utparothed]

Ridiculous. How's a player a yes one year and no the next?

 

[Alouha27]

The Baseball HOF is kinda like the Rock & Roll HOF, they tend to piss people off more often than not.

 

[MissionaryHorn]

Writers get to vote for 10 players. Perhaps a writer didn't include Biggio in his 10 votes.

I saw some people comment that Jeff Kent was a better player. I think the writers are forgetting that Biggio played a lot at catcher.

 

[mesoHorny]

Frank Thomas in before Bigg? What an f'ng joke.

 

[HornSolo]

Not so fast my Astro friends,

The Hall's website, in their election story, says that there were 571 ballots sent out. Craig Biggio got 427 votes, which results in being two votes shy of the 75% needed for election into the Hall of Fame. However, in the table to the right of the linked story, there were 569 ballots cast. According to the BBWAA-branded system it can be determined that 427 divided by 569 is 75.04%...which would mean Biggio is in.

could get interesting.