Ok awnser these questions\n about who will go in the baseball hall of  fame.\nDerek Jeter yes or no.\nAlex Rod yes or no\nMatsui (on the yankees yes or no)\nJohnny Damon yes or no\nBarry Bonds yes or no\nJason Jambi yes or no\nGary Shettfield yes or no\nCarlos beltron yes or no\nMike Pizzatza yes or no\nPedro Marntiez Yes or no\nplease awnser all the questions.
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Derek Jeter - no question he will go in\n \nAlex Rod - yes, he will go\n\nMatsui - tough to say, but with half a major league career and half of a Japanese career, he probably won't.\n\nJohnny Damon - No I don't think he will go, I don't see him putting up the career numbers necessary to make it, especially considering the fact that he's a center fielder. Writers who vote for the HOF expect more power from the CF position. He's played 11 seasons so far, but has only made the All-Star team twice...that's not very good...\n\n\nBarry Bonds - yes, unless they manage to ban him somehow, which is what they appear to be doing.\n\nJason Jambi (sic) - he MIGHT go, but it depends on how the writers view the steroids issue in 20 years. The further you get from the end of a player's career, the more important his stats become in the HOF's evaluation of him. Sportwriters like to think they have good memories, but most of them really don't.\n\n\nGary Shettfield - I think Shefield has a good chance to get in some day, unless he's somehow banned for steroid use. He's put great #s on the board, and has played for some winning teams. If his career is long enough to put some really great career numbers up, there's no reason he wouldn't go in eventually, though maybe not on the first few ballots.\n\n\nCarlos beltron - way too early to tell. But if he keeps up this quality of play for 10 to 12 years, he should make it.\n\nMike Pizzatza - Piazza is a shoe-in. Twelve all star games...  never won an MVP but finished 2nd twice and 3rd another time. A .311 career batting average to go along with  397 HR and 1,223 RBI... He's probably the best hitting catcher ever to play in the major leagues.  Slugging pct of .555... These are definitely Hall of Fame numbers, considering we're talking about a catcher here. Plus, he's had six 100-RBI season, with another four season in the 90+ RBI range.  It would be tough to find someone who played in 12 All Star Games and isn't in the HOF.\n\n\nPedro Marntiez - Yes, Pedro will go into the HOF.
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1 - Billy Martin\n3 - Babe Ruth\n4 - Lou Gehrig\n5 - Joe DiMaggio\n7 - Mickey Mantle\n8 - Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey\n9 - Roger Maris\n10 - Phil Rizzuto\n15 - Thurman Munson\n16 - Whitey Ford\n23 - Don Mattingly\n32 - Elston Howard\n37 - Casey Stengel\n44 - Reggie Jackson\n49 - Ron Guidry\n\nSooner or later they'll run out of numbers
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Cardinals\n1)  Jimmy Edmonds\n2)  Scotty Rolen\n3)  Jose Alberto Pujols\n4)  Matt Morris\n5)  So Taguchi or Fredbird\n\nNon-Cardinals\n1)  Daunte Bichette\n2)  Roger Clemens\n3)  Andruw & Chipper Jones\n4)  Barry Bonds (whether or not he used steriods)\n5)  Tino Martinez\n\nHate List\n1)  Carlos Zambrano (former bastard)\n2)  Kenny Rogers (bastard)\n3)  Gary Sheffield\n4)  Edgar Renteria\n5)  Normar Garciapara
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The Baseball Writer's Association of America.\n\nThere are 2 voters from this association from each major city. This is how they vote:\n\nFirst place vote = 14 points\nSecond place = 9 points\nand so on until 10th place vote gets 1 point.\n\nIf Jeter got one more 1st place vote, it would be tied. In that case, I don't know what would happen, because it has never happend. \n\nHere were the TOP 3 for the AL :\n\nJustin Morneau                   320\nDerek Jeter                        306\nDavid Ortiz                         193
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I live just outside Boston and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. Ever since Pedro left Boston, I have been "secretly" routing for him. I hoped for a Boston win, but with Pedro pitching well. And yes, he is a grade-A pitcher. As Peter Gammons has said many times before, "if he (Pedro) retired tommorow, he would be in the hall of fame with no doubt"
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1. Yankees - Wang (Johnson had a 5.00 ERA this year)\n2. A's - Rich Harden (Zito is a free agent)\n3. Red Sox - Schilling\n4. Twins - Santana\n5. Angels - John Lackey (far better than Colon)\n6. Blue Jays - Halladay\n7. Marlins - Sanchez\n8. Dodgers - Maddux\n9. Mets - Glavine\n10. Cards - Carpenter\n11. Tigers - Verlander
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yes i do despise the red sox.  a rod is not my favorite yankee.  my reasoning behind this is because he did not come up a yankee.  he is a natural star. i feel that my favorite yankee is derek jeter. he has a lot of talent and was brought up in the yankee farm system.  i think to be a true yankee, you have to be brought up learning the ropes in the yankee farm system, anything less would consider you an accquisition in order to try to improve the team.  as we all know, the yankees do not have many farm players coming up and it is sad.  maybe if we rasied more talent, we could win our 27th.
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Greetings from the Yahoo Brain in New York City!  \nHope you're watching the live Answers webcast at http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\n\nI think A-Rod will break it, as long as he doesn't have to get up in too many pressure situations for the rest of his career.  I love the guy, but I can't get over how ridiculously un-clutch he is.  He's still going to get his numbers, particularly mammoth home run blasts when the Yankees are either up or down big, but don't look for too much from him when the game is on the line.\n\nWhat I also think is that if he keeps up his own torrid pace, Albert Pujols will break Rodriguez's record a few years later.   As long as he stays healthy and keeps hitting them, there's almost no reason to think he won't!\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
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1. Pujols\nBest 1b of all time-btw-hit more HR in first 4 seasons than Ruth, Maris\n2. Gurrero\nBest All-around player in the game, deserved the MVP 2 years ago\n3. A. Rodriguez\nHandled the transition from SS to 3b smoothly, and is still one of the best hitters\n4. Hafner\nBig DH for the Indians is one of the early picks for MVP in the AL: hits for power and avg.\n5. Big Papi\nCarried the Red Sox to a title in '04, is an icon of the MLB and is the consummate DH
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I too LOVED Johnny Damon until he became a Johnny Judas.  Go anywhere... Just don't go to the Yankees.  I wish I was going to the game on May 1 as I would join you in booing him.  I am going to the game on 9/17 AT YANKEE STADIUM.  I was thinking of taking my old Johnny Judas t-shirt and burning it outside the stadium.  :o)
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Having watched both Koufax and Ryan in their prime I would take Sandy Koufax.\n\nRoger Clemens is done with base ball and Randy Johnson is going to pitch two or three more years. This will give him 300 wins and pass Roger on the strikeout list.\nRandy is only 50 or less behind Roger.\nThis one is a toss up.\n\nI will say that between these two I would take A-Rod only because he is where no one else is at this stage of his career.  Albert may have the ring but he did very poorly in the WS.\nSide note Ichiro is ahead of Albert in just about everything except home runs for the same time in the majors.  \n\nThree no hitters because it is three wins\n\nLastly there is no way I would want b.bonds around me or anyone else on my team if I played. He does not think about what is best for the team only himself.  This has been said by too many people who have played with him both in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
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Good to see Paul O'Neil's name come up. He and Mattingly were my favorites and remain among my favorites to this day. O'Neil was one of those players that brought an intangible to the games he played - a determined grit... a never surrender quality to every at bat. He carried this with him for every game he played.\n\nHe wouldn't give up and wouldn't let anyone else around him give up - a true warrior of the diamond.\n\nThis quality is seldom reflected in stats - a shame... On numbers alone, he wouldn't make the hall. In the minds and hearts of those who saw him play and witnessed his daily contributions - it matters not.
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brian roberts: is he going to be able to go for the first part of the season?  you could shift freel to 2nd and grab another outfielder (one with power... are raul ibanez or geoff jenkins available?)  cabrera is a great hitter, so is his teammate jeremy hermida.  but the marlins will struggle to score... LOVE mike young and aramis ramirez.  sean casey could surprise!\n\ni like your pitching staff, rodriguez is going to be the best in the game very soon. valverde... hmm, we'll see. i do think vazquez and zito will bounce back... in fact the whole A's team feels good to me.  take a look at dan haren if he's available.\n\nhope they work out for you... 1 more day!
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The hall of fame is for MLB players.  If O'Niel is in, then Josh Gibson is the HR king with over 900 hr's and Satchel Page is the best pitcher not Cy Young or Nolan Ryan.  But thank god those are not the rules.
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Pete Rose is the best. I am a big fan of his and always will be. He was a great ball player. He should be in the Hall of Fame. He could have done worse. There are other ball players I think should be taken out because of what they did.
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Wow, that is a goood question, I am a bit prejudiced towrds the Yankees, but I think historically this still valid. The best catchers of my youth are Bench, Fisk or Munson.\n1.Mickey Cochrane \n2.Johnny Bench\n3.Yogi Berra \n4.Josh Gibson\n5.Carlton Fisk\n6.Ivan Rodriguez\n7.Roy Campanella\n8.Elston Howard\n8a.Thurman Munson\n9. Mike Piazza\n10. Bill Dickey\nSorry if it seems like their are alot of Yankees, but that is the way I see it.\n\nHey Disgraced, it was Jackie Robinson, not Hank Aaron.\n\nIn retrospect I think Gibson could be #1 but he was not allowed to play at the same time as many of  his contemporaries, by far he is the best hitter of the bunch.
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Even though the Marlins management has said that they are untouchable, you might see them making deals for Dontrelle Willis and Cabrera. The Yankees are interested in Willis but not Cabrera. I don't see the Yanks having enough youngsters to interest the fish.\nYou're going to see Manny Ramirez on another team in a week or two. I think that hurts Ortiz a lot. They can now pitch around him to get to JD Drew. JD Drew just doesn't scare me as much as Manny did. Manny was a Yankee Killer something like the 2006 Tigers were. \nThe Angels are hot on a few players so you should see some activity there. The Phills lost Wolf so they're in the market for a Starter.\nIt should be fun.