2007 Best of Baseball election thread

[Dogdaze]

Dogdaze: You skipped the third spot. I would count your ballot without that, but I'd prefer you take care of it yourself.

Sorry about that, I fixed it.

[jalbright]

My apologies for placing Hack on my ballot...I had thought he was elected many "years ago" but didn't see him on the list of electees this year. I have replaced him with (N)Ed Williamson.

Absolutely no need to apologize. Heck, it brought a problem I had created (overwriting Hack's name with Gwynn instead of inserting Gwynn's name above Hack) out into the open for me to fix. It's my fault, not yours.

[jalbright]

Sorry about that, I fixed it.

Not to worry. As is shown by my error with Hack, I'm not immune to making errors, either. It happens.

[J W]

Players

1. Eppa Rixey
2. Joe Sewell
3. Rollie Fingers
4. Luis Aparicio
5. Wally Berger
6. Billy Pierce
7. Kirby Puckett
8. Graig Nettles
9. Quincy Trouppe
10. Darrell Evans
11. Lee Smith
12. Dale Murphy

Positional queue: Jack Clark, Buddy Bell, Bobby Bonds, Willie Randolph, Ron Cey
Pitching queue: Tommy John, Carl Mays, Lefty Gomez, Jim Kaat, Mickey Welch

Contributors

1. John Schuerholz
2. Billy Martin
3. Billy Evans
4. Bob Howsam
5. Augie Busch

Short list: Pat Gillick, Doug Harvey, Tim Murnane, Red Schoendienst, George Steinbrenner

[Captain Cold Nose]

1. Kirby Puckett
2. Burleigh Grimes
3. Luis Aparicio
4. Lefty Gomez
5. Eppa Rixey
6. Jake Beckley
7. Lou Brock
8. Ray Dandridge
9. Tony Perez
10. Jimmy Sheckard
11. Quincy Trouppe
12. Cupid Childs


Contributors

1. Billy Evans
2. Bucky Harris
3. Ernie Harwell
4. Doug Harvey
5. George Steinbrenner

[joggerdru]

1 Lou Brock
2 Eppa Rixey
3 Luis Aparicio
4 Sal Bando
5 Cupid Childs
6 Tony Mullane
7 Urban Schocker
8 Burleigh Grimes
9 Billy Pierce
10 Jim Sheckard
11 Jacob Beckley
12 Mickey Welch

[TheMendozaLine]

Players:

1. Lou Brock
2. Jake Beckley
3. Tony Mullane
4. Jimmy Sheckard
5. Ray Dandridge
6. Quincy Trouppe
7. Luis Aparicio
8. Eppa Rixey
9. Cupid Childs
10. Billy Pierce
11. Sam Rice
12. Kirby Puckett

Contributors:

1. Harry Caray
2. David Neft
3. John Schuerholz
4. Bob Uecker
5. Billy Evans

[jalbright]

We've got a quorum on both ballots, and in fact all but yankillaz from last election have already voted. If he hasn't voted by Monday, I'll follow up with him via PM.

Next election will add some interesting names. On the contributor side, there's Davey Johnson and Lou Piniella. I don't plan on voting for either in the next election, but would listen to their cases should anyone care to make them. I'm going to be adding Gillick, who will have added being the GM for the world champ Phils to his resume.

On the player side, there's a large crop with some interesting names:

Bichette , Dante
Bonilla , Bobby
Clemens , Roger
Dunston , Shawon
Dykstra , Lenny
Fielder , Cecil
Greenwell , Mike
Martinez , Edgar
McGriff , Fred
McGwire , Mark
O'Neill , Paul
Weiss , Walt
Wells , David

I've already signalled support for Clemens, Martinez and McGwire, and McGriff certainly has his supporters. Some others in that group might get at least consideration from our voters.

[Domenic]

Clemens, Martinez, and McGwire will lead my ballot ... and likely in that order. McGriff has an outside shot of cracking the 10 through 12 area, depending upon how this election unfolds.

[jalbright]

We had 11 player ballots and 10 contributor ballots. We elected Cupid Childs, Jimmy Sheckard, and Quincy Trouppe among the players and Billy Evans among the contributors. The official results will follow, players first:

Players………………..	votes	pts
Childs , Cupid	10	69
Trouppe, Quincy	9	66
Sheckard , J	8	59
Bando, Sal	7	57
Brock, Lou	5	53
Aparicio, Luis	5	46
Rixey, Eppa	5	46
Mullane , Tony	5	35
Beckley , Jake	5	34
Shocker, Urban	4	33
Puckett, Kirby	5	32
Pierce, Billy	5	29
Berger , Wally	3	25
Nettles, Graig	4	22
Evans, Darrell	5	21
Dandridge, Ray	4	20
Lundy , Dick	2	18
Grimes , B	2	16
Duffy , Hugh	3	15
Randolph, W	3	14
Leach , Tommy	1	12
Perez, Tony	2	11
Sewell , Joe	1	11
Sutter, Bruce	3	11
Fingers, Rollie	1	10
Howard, Frank	1	10
Cepeda, Orlando	1	9
Gomez, Lefty	1	9
Bonds, Bobby	2	8
Newcombe, Don	1	7
Quisenberry, D	2	7
Evers, Johnny	1	6
Munson, Thurman	1	6
Smith, Chino	4	6
Campaneris, B	1	5
Murphy, Dale	2	5
Richardson , H	1	4
Jones, Charley	1	3
Rice, Sam	1	2
Smith, Lee	1	2
Pike, Lip	1	1
Pinson, Vada	1	1
Welch, Mickey	1	1
Williamson, Ned	1	1

Now the contributors:

Contributor………	votes	pts
Evans, Billy	6	21
Neft, David	5	20
Schuerhotlz, J	4	17
Steinbrenner, G	5	16
Mizuhara, S	6	14
Pompez, Alex	5	9
Harvey, Doug	4	7
Caray, Harry	1	5
Harris , Bucky	2	5
Jobe, Frank	1	5
Pesky, Johnny	1	5
Smith, Red	1	5
Martin, Billy	1	4
O'Doul, Lefty	1	4
Harwell, Ernie	1	3
McCarthy, Tommy	1	3
Howsam, Bob	1	2
Uecker, Bob	1	2
Busch, Augie	1	1
Gillick, Pat	1	1
Murtaugh, Danny	1	1