Mile High Arthritis

I was looking at yesterday’s MLB transactions and noticed that Jamie Moyer had been signed to a minor league contract by the Rockies.  Seeing his name there got me thinking about his career compared to other pitchers, specifically his chances of making the Hall of Fame.  Dude’s been pitching forever and has a few pretty impressive stats, realistically looking at any one of his seasons he is by no means a Hall of Famer but at what point does the compilation of stats mean more than real dominance? 

In general I’m at odds with how pretty much everything in baseball’s awarding system works.  Too many inconsistencies to really know what to expect, MVP and Hall of Fame voting are the worst.  The part about both of them that really gets to me are the inconsistencies, Verlander winning the MVP was understandable if we didn’t already have an award for the best pitcher.  So many pitchers have had comparable seasons to Verlander and been denied the MVP.  If I could have my way there’d be a Cy Young award, a best hitter award (Babe Ruth award?) and an optional superlative award.  The superlative award would be for outstanding an performer and would require a certain percentage of votes to be awarded. 

The Hall of Fame voting mostly sucks because of how long it took for Jim Rice to get in, really embarrassing for them.

Half of me thinks that if Jamie Moyer gets into the hall of fame it would be kind of a life-time achievement award.  Some of his stats (wins, Ks) are Hall of Fame for sure, but his ERA is crazy high.  Nobody in the HOF is there anyone with a 4+ ERA (closest is Red Ruffing, 3.80) but it makes me wonder what the actually importance of stats are in the voting process.  Legitimately rewarding players for not being associated with steroids during the steroid era is stupid, dudes should be held even tighter to their stats being as they are really the performance they naturally gave. 

Calling it now…Moyer will make it into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility……2030

Dry blog but stuff like this is always on my mind and I don't care what you think

P.S. I'm with the Jew on this one, lets use some common sense

P.P.S.  I'm here to blog, not write a research paper, I'll use all the bad grammar I want

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