Alan Trammell

This weekend Bert Blyleven will be back on a pitching mound. Considering the statistical scrutiny his career has undergone in the 17 years since he retired -- most notably, his not-quite-300 total of 287 wins -- few...

The Hall of Fame voting results will be announced later today. As always, there's been no end of the debate regarding who should be voted in by the Baseball Writers Association of America, with supporters and...

Bill James has told me -- more than once -- that if he had a Hall of Fame vote, he would probably vote for the maximum of 10 players every year, or as close to 10 as he could justifiably go. As he wrote: "I would...

One knock you hear all the time about certain Hall of Fame candidates is that they were just good players who assembled impressive career numbers simply by sticking around for a long time. I have always thought that...

Just 23 names dot the 2008 Hall of Fame ballot, the smallest number in history. That's mostly a fluke owing to the vagaries of when careers begin and end, which players come back for an extra season or an extra few...