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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Loading comments I was going to Orlando. We were sitting in rooms most of the day. For anybody who has gotten that phone call, it really is a 'wow' moment. When the Tigers honored Trammell and retired his number 3 in , Trammell talked at length about wanting Whitaker to join him -- not just for the ceremony, which he did, but in the Hall. His success in many ways was their success. They were so intertwined over their 19 years as a double-play duo that it was difficult to consider one without the other.
Tram and I worked hard those years. Even after his minor surge to Trammell's raw numbers and his advanced ones bear a striking similarity to those of Larkin, the longtime Reds shortstop who himself was the centerpiece of a World Series winner but did win an MVP award ' Thanks to excellent defense as well as offense, Trammell finished among the AL's top five in WAR four times, with two more in the top 10; in an year stretch from , his His seven-year peak total of Whitaker has never been considered in a small-committee context, in part because he didn't become eligible until after his year run would have expired in Still, his omission here felt like a slight.
Of the good news to be had from among the other eight candidates, the fact that Ted Simmons, who similarly fell off the writers' ballot after just one try, finished just one vote short of election, counts. That the voters could give him a long enough look to take him seriously in this context offers hope for candidates such as Whitaker, Bobby Grich and Kenny Lofton who similarly went one-and-done.
On the other hand, the fact that Marvin Miller , the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, received just seven votes is inexcusable, the absolute nadir of the Hall of Fame process. Miller, who oversaw the game's biggest change since integration by dismantling the reserve clause and therefore shifting the century-old balance of power from the owners to the players, is the candidate with the strongest case of any individual outside Cooperstown, and perhaps the strongest case of any non-player in the game's history.
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