rjb182 wrote:
As I commented down in the Talking Baseball section, I'm okay with the results in general. If Rice and Perez didn't bring down the Hall standards, neither will Dawson, and I hope Blyleven makes it next year. But I'm flummoxed by a system that results in Dawson getting in instead of a clearly superior player (Alomar-- actually, two superior players counting Larkin) merely because he had a few years to build up votes while Robby was still on the first ballot...


I never understood how a player gets better the longer he is retired. If he didn't deserve a vote in Year 1, why should he get it in Year 2 and onward?