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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Monday, December 15, 2008Today at THTI'm going to intrude on Barbieri's turf for a moment and note that, on this day in 1974, arbitrator Peter Seitz rules that the Oakland Athletics breached the contract of pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter by failing to buy a required insurance policy. As a result, Hunter was released from his contract, allowing him to become a free agent and subsequently to sign the then-largest contract in baseball history: $3.75 million from the New York Yankees over five years.Also on this date, this time in 2003, at the exact moment this post went live, I was in a hospital delivery room watching Mrs. Shyster squeeze a seven pound, one ounce human being out of her body. Me and the missus have gotten a way better deal out of our daughter Anna than Steinbrenner got out of Hunter, as Anna Calcaterra's CKQ+ -- that's Cool Kid Quotient, adjusted for context -- is way better than Catfish's ERA+ ever was. In other news: Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 6:01am Comments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m sort of conflicted on the Veterans’ Committee’s lack of inductees. Isn’t the Hall of Fame crowded enough already? If these players couldn’t get in the first fifteen tries, it’s likely they don’t belong.
Of course every once in a while you’ll have a guy slip through the cracks, which is where the Veterans’ Committee serves a purpose, but I don’t think they should elect a player every time they vote.
When the sabermetrically-inclined (myself included) bitch and moan about the Committee’s inability to get anyone into the Hall, I suspect they’re really complaining about the Committee’s inability to get Ron Santo into the Hall. If Ron Santo (and maybe Dick Allen, as well) goes in on the next ballot, I doubt Neyer, Law, et al will waste any more virtual ink on the Veterans’ Committees ineffectiveness.