Assessing the contenders, and here there are. I was going to include Alan Trammell, but I'm running short on time and I think he's not nearly enough of a lock to lose sleep over this year.
Albert Belle, Bert Blyleven, Andre Dawson, Steve Garvey, Rich "Goose" Gossage, Orel Hershiser, Tommy John, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Jim Rice, Don Mattingly, Lee Smith, Bruce Sutter
Who belongs in the Hall?
The knee-jerk reaction is "nobody." But that can't be the case, can it? Baseball Toaster had a roundtable on the subject (4 parts, but this part lists final picks).
The Baseball Hall of Fame, surprisingly, gives a candidate list with bios.
There's legitimate discussion and disagreement over about 14 players, in my mind. For the super-quick analysis, here's how I selected:
Yes to: Gossage, Morris, Rice. Too conflicted to take a real opinion: Sutter. No to everybody else, but not naive enough to think that some of them won't get in, either through the ballot or the Veterans Committee.
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