Known cheater Gaylord Perry is in the HOF and nobody bats an eye. Everyone who played from 1987 - 2004 and beyond is a good suspect for using some sort of PED's. Impossible to parse them all out so why bother.
With Mondesi, they are just looking to find a stop gap for the year. I think they need Story to just get healthy again and play out the remainder of the contract AT 2B.
Hall of Fame results are announced tonight.
The only guys above 75% so far on public ballots are Rolen and Helton. We'll see if they can sneak in or if the remaining ballots get them under 75% again.
Wagner has 71.6% and all others are below 70.
My ballot would have been:
Abreu
Beltran
Buerhle
Helton
Jones
Manny
ARod
Rolen
Sheffield
Wagner
Red Sox legends Mike Napoli, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Lackey and Bronson Arroyo have received zero votes so far.
RA Dickey and Huston Street each received 1 vote so far.
Mondesi career wRC+: 79
Andrus career wRC+: 86
Mondesi zips projection: 320 PAs, .240/.277/.383, 79 OPS+, 1.5 WAR
Andrus zips projection: 529 PAs, .238/.290/.363, 80 OPS+, 0.9 WAR
Bloom has built this team around a lot of older or recently injured players. Which ones do you think are likely to miss multiple weeks due to injury? Select all that apply!
This is a poll, please give me a few minutes to put the options up.
Mondesi has played both 2B and SS. I think he has a good bit of upside, which Bloom loves. I would have rather that they found a starting SS to plug in just for the year, but I don't think that guy exists. Maybe Story will be back at some point?
Will he end up with numbers like 2018-19? No. Will he k a lot and take very few bb's? Yes. Does he still have his speed post ACL surgery (68 SB per 162G from '18-'21)? Who knows!
My gut tells me that he's not the everyday SS though.