VOTE: Time Warp HOF Ballot 1945
 

1936 Initial Ballot Results, 1937 Results, 1938 Results, 1939 Results, 1940 Results,
1941 Results, 1942 Results, 1943 Results, 1944 Results


No players were elected to the RL HOF in 1945 by the BBWAA, but the following players were elected by the VC - Roger Bresnahan, Dan Brouthers, Fred Clarke, Jimmy Collins, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Hughie Jennings, King Kelly, Jim O'Rourke.

All players who received at least 5% of votes on the last ballot were retained for this ballot. I also added players who became eligible for the ballot in 1945 (retired after 1939 season).

All players not receiving 5% of votes on this ballot will be removed.

The TWB VC officially begins in 1946, so all players who have been retired for 20 years fall off this ballot if not elected.

Vote for as many or as few as you want. Max votes are 10.

HOF Standard: 50 is considered an average HOF'er. 100 is max.

Batters

Current Career Leaders (Click to View Entire List):
AVG: .364
Hits: 4000
HR: 502
RBI: 1847
2B: 665
BB: 1694
R: 2004
SB: 921


Patrick Seifried, 1B, Last Season: 1924, HOF Standard: 51
2720 H, 313 2B, 59 HR, 1195 RBI, 1348 R, 851 K, 1137 BB, 235 SB, .327 AVG, .867 OPS
BOY Award: 3
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 5
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: 1
Led League in: OBP 3, SLG 1, OPS 2, RBI 2, Runs 2, BB 3
Career Top 10: NONE


Paris "Frenchie" Fournier, 3B, Last Season: 1924, HOF Standard: 49
2730 H, 465 2B, 24 HR, 980 RBI, 1511 R, 354 K, 541 BB, 802 SB, .296 AVG, .772 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: NONE
Pennants: 4
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: Hits 2, 2B 1, 3B 2, Runs 4, SB 7
Career Top 10: 3B, Runs, SB


"Dark Horse" Allen, CF, Last Season: 1913, HOF Standard: 42
1795 H, 213 2B, 67 HR, 709 RBI, 907 R, 528 K, 871 BB, 13 SB, .325 AVG, .883 OPS
BOY Award: 3
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: NONE
Pennants: 3
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: 2
Led League in: OBP 2, SLG 4, OPS 4, Hits 2, 3B 1, HR 1, Runs 3, BB 5
Career Top 10: NONE


"Ray of Light" Brown, CF, Last Season: 1926, HOF Standard: 49
2526 H, 339 2B, 130 HR, 1155 RBI, 1314 R, 969 K, 828 BB, 167 SB, .300 AVG, .836 OPS
BOY Award: 2
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 11
Pennants: 4
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: SLG 2, Hits 2, 3B 1, HR 2, Runs 1
Career Top 10: 3B


Jerry "Slap" Hertzog, 2B, Last Season: 1937, HOF Standard: 61
2510 H, 395 2B, 122 HR, 1187 RBI, 1491 R, 899 K, 1509 BB, 41 SB, .314 AVG, .872 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: 1
Gold Gloves: 3
Pennants: 4
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: OBP 1, BB 7
Career Top 10: BB


Cyrus Holloway, CF, Last Season: 1937, HOF Standard: 57
2447 H, 540 2B, 114 HR, 1108 RBI, 1299 R, 537 K, 1215 BB, 109 SB, .315 AVG, .863 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 2
Pennants: 1
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: NONE
Career Top 10: NONE


Willard Schwarz, C, Last Season: 1937, HOF Standard: 41
2050 H, 359 2B, 340 HR, 1399 RBI, 1106 R, 614 K, 595 BB, 14 SB, .260 AVG, .760 OPS
BOY Award: 1
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 8
Pennants: 6
WS Victories: 5
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: SLG 1, HR 3, RBI 1, R 1
Career Top 10: HR


Glendon "Bull" Zegri, LF, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 58
2934 H, 657 2B, 212 HR, 1713 RBI, 1503 R, 454 K, 1560 BB, 25 SB, .304 AVG, .844 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 2
Pennants: 4
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: NONE
Career Top 10: RBI, 2B, BB


Rod "Cowboy" Glass, 3B, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 49
2772 H, 479 2B, 101 HR, 1172 RBI, 1293 R, 596 K, 609 BB, 39 SB, .309 AVG, .789 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 1
Pennants: 6
WS Victories: 5
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: NONE
Career Top 10: NONE


Ralph "Thunder" Tumbridge, 1B, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 28
2086 H, 371 2B, 243 HR, 1409 RBI, 1095 R, 443 K, 762 BB, 24 SB, .274 AVG, .778 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 9
Pennants: 6
WS Victories: 4
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: RBI 1
Career Top 10: NONE


Kevin Stines, 2B, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 41
2213 H, 467 2B, 55 HR, 983 RBI, 1191 R, 622 K, 815 BB, 336 SB, .285 AVG, .782 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 10
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: 3B 2
Career Top 10: NONE


Nick Graves, RF, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 52
2356 H, 527 2B, 207 HR, 1408 RBI, 1208 R, 775 K, 784 BB, 110 SB, .312 AVG, .877 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: 1
Gold Gloves: 2
Pennants: 1
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: 2B 1
Career Top 10: NONE


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Howard "Cookie" Parrish, 1B, Last Season: 1939, HOF Standard: 36
2082 H, 481 2B, 228 HR, 1171 RBI, 1010 R, 423 K, 576 BB, 6 SB, .312 AVG, .860 OPS
BOY Award: 2
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: NONE
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: 1
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: SLG 1, OPS 1, 2B 1, RBI 1
Career Top 10: NONE


Donald "Duckie" Andrew, 2B, Last Season: 1939, HOF Standard: 47
2203 H, 374 2B, 84 HR, 960 RBI, 1472 R, 641 K, 1185 BB, 701 SB, .276 AVG, .789 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: NONE
Pennants: NONE
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: 3B 2, SB 5
Career Top 10: SB


Dale "The Wizard" Reneau, SS, Last Season: 1939, HOF Standard: 63
2784 H, 340 2B, 91 HR, 1057 RBI, 1467 R, 693 K, 919 BB, 557 SB, .317 AVG, .829 OPS
BOY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Gold Gloves: 3
Pennants: 6
WS Victories: 5
Batting Titles: NONE
Led League in: 3B 2, Runs 1, SB 2
Career Top 10: NONE


Ben "Rabbi" Baum, CF, Last Season: 1938, HOF Standard: 78
3297 H, 439 2B, 238 HR, 1645 RBI, 1719 R, 698 K, 1015 BB, 192 SB, .337 AVG, .907 OPS
BOY Award: 3
ROY Award: 1918
Gold Gloves: 1
Pennants: 4
WS Victories: NONE
Batting Titles: 2
Led League in: OBP 1, SLG 2, OPS 2, Hits 3, HR 2, RBI 1, Runs 1
Career Top 10: RBI, Runs

Pitchers

Current Career Leaders (Click to View Entire List):
ERA: 2.10
W: 390
K: 3116
CG: 601
SHO: 95


Will Haggan, Last Season: 1922, HOF Standard: 58
337-299, 53.0%, 3.28 ERA, 5837.1 IP, 1597 BB, 2612 K, 601 CG, 45 SHO, 1.15 WHIP
POY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: 2
No-Hitters: 2
Led League in: Wins 1, Losses 1, IP 2
Career Top 10: Wins, K's (#1), CG (#1)


Mark Krosser, Last Season: 1916, HOF Standard: 57
266-181, 59.5%, 2.50 ERA, 4134.2 IP, 653 BB, 2131 K, 419 CG, 39 SHO, 1.10 WHIP
POY Award: 2
ROY Award: 1
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: 1
No-Hitters: NONE
Led League in: ERA 3, WHIP 1, Wins 2, IP 1, K's 2, CG 2, SHO 1
Career Top 10: ERA, K's


Dave "The Shepard" McBean, Last Season: 1916, HOF Standard: 56
254-151, 62.7%, 2.52 ERA, 3747 IP, 611 BB, 1529 K, 386 CG, 55 SHO, 1.06 WHIP
POY Award: 1
ROY Award: NONE
Pennants: 1
WS Victories: 1
No-Hitters: NONE
Led League in: Wins 3, IP 1, K's 1, CG 3, SHO 1
Career Top 10: ERA, SHO


"Nasty Ned" Fargo, Last Season: 1933, HOF Standard: 46
322-261, 55.2%, 3.99 ERA, 5502 IP, 1073 BB, 1482 K, 415 CG, 31 SHO, 1.24 WHIP
POY Award: 1
ROY Award: NONE
Pennants: 1
WS Victories: 1
No-Hitters: NONE
Led League in: Wins 1, Losses 1, IP 5, CG 2
Career Top 10: Wins


"Evil" Gary Archer, Last Season: 1914, HOF Standard: 45
237-188, 55.8%, 2.86 ERA, 3922.1 IP, 984 BB, 1631 K, 405 CG, 47 SHO, 1.09 WHIP
POY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Pennants: 2
WS Victories: 1
No-Hitters: 3
Led League in: WHIP 2, CG 1, SHO 1
Career Top 10: NONE


Tobe Palmer, Last Season: 1936, HOF Standard: 41
266-185, 59.0%, 3.48 ERA, 4316 IP, 1410 BB, 1763 K, 395 CG, 37 SHO, 1.35 WHIP
POY Award: NONE
ROY Award: NONE
Pennants: 6
WS Victories: 5
No-Hitters: NONE
Led League in: IP 1, K 1
Career Top 10: NONE

Baum
Parrish (Gotta vote for the TWB Gehrig)
Reneau
Graves
Zegri
Dark Horse Allen
Ray of Light Brown
Seifried
Schwarz
Krosser

I wish I could vote for more than 10 this season. :(

Dark Horse Allen-- boy, was I wrong about him, time to make amends.
Seifried
Fournier
Ben Baum-- a no-doubter
Reneau
Zegri
Brown-- its all about those 11 gold gloves.
McBean
Krosser
Haggan-- 600 complete games, even by OOTP standards, is astonishing. 337 wins aint too shabby either.

Baum
Haggan
Fargo

Siefried
Brown
Schwarz
Baum
Haggan

Siefried Zegri Renau Baum Krosser McBean

Allen
Baum
Haggan
Krosser
Zegri

Siefried
Brown
Schwarz
Baum
Haggan
Fargo

Seifried
Allen
Schwarz
Baum
Krosser

In alpha order:

Hitters:
Dark Horse Allen
Rabbi Baum,
Slap Hertzog
Patrick Seifried
Bull Zegri

Pitchers:
Mark Krosser

On Wizard Reneau vs. Schwarz, people probably should vote for Wiz ahead of Schwarz. Wiz's R+RBI is actually 19 higher. His OPS is _much_ higher -.829 vs. .760. Heck, .317/.382/.447 smokes .260/.312/.448 despite the HR advantage Schwarz has. Wiz's leaderboard appearances BA (2-2-7), OBP (2-2-8-9), SLG (5-8-10) and OPS (2-6-10) swamp Schwarz's SLG (1-2-2-5-6) and OPS (3-8-10). Schwarz was an "RBI Man" (1-3-6-9-9-9-9) while Wiz was a Run Man (1-3-4-7-7-10) that pretty much wash out. Gold Glove catcher (one of the best ever with 8) vs. Gold Glove SS ("just" three). I know Schwarz held the all-time HR record. He's not exactly Dave Kingman, but he's not Mike Schmidt either.

As you can see, I didn't vote for Wiz. He's close. An .829 OPS from a Gold Glove middle IF is very impressive. Flaky was a .838. Of course he played a large chunk of his career in the dead ball era, while Wiz got the lively ball. You can look at Flaky in the BA/OBP/SLG/OPS leaderboards and see that in the context of his time he was consistently a better hitter than Wiz. So I'm being cautious with Wiz until we look a bit more into him. Then again, one can take a look at Schwarz and compare him with the Great Catchers who came before him and see he comes up very short.


John

Batters:
CF Dark Horse Allen
CF Ben "Rabbi" Baum
CF "Ray of Light" Brown
3B "Frenchie" Fournier
RF Nick Graves
2B Jerry "Slap" Hertzog
1B Patrick Seifried
LF Glendon "Bull" Zegri

Pitchers:
Mark Krosser
Dave McBean

Can someone explain to me why Mark Krosser always gets more votes than Dave McBean? In my book, these guys deserve to go in together. McBean was the equal to Krosser and people are missing that fact.

Krosser has the edge in wins, 266-254, a difference of 12 wins. McBean, however was 30 losses better than Krosser, 181-151. If you calculate the Fibonacci Win Points, McBean has the lead by 262-243 (the formula is FWP=W*W%+Games over .500 as stated in Bill James' Politics of Glory). Now wins are obviously not the only factor. Krosser edges McBean in ERA by a very slim margin (2.50-2.52). McBean edges Krosser in WHIP (1.10-1.06). Both players won 1 Pitcher of the Year award and 1 World Series each.

Krosser beats McBean in CG's 419-386, but McBean had more SHO's (39-55). There are two points in Krosser's favor that I see as not having a match by McBean: IP and K's. Krosser was good for about 400 more IP, or 1.5 seasons, and he struck out 602 more batters, which is significant. I just don't think that IP and K's are enough to vote for one guy over the other.

I just recently read through the Fibonacci Win Points chapter in James' book, which is why I thought I'd apply it here, and it's pretty interesting. It's basically a way of trying to compare players like Sandy Koufax who didn't play as long but were very good with players who played much longer but didn't win at a high rate. James points out that it's only one factor in the analysis since it really only focuses on wins which is team dependant. That's probably why it's not a very popular stat. The other reason it's probably not as popular is that there's not really a good equivalent for batters, although James does present one in his book with some pretty strong reservations about it. Anyway, when I ran the numbers it was one more reason for me to conclude that I think McBean is Krosser's equal, and continue my frustration that others don't seem to notice it as much as I do.

For what it's worth, here are the Fibonacci Win Points for the pitchers on this year's ballot:
262 - Dave McBean
243 - Mark Krosser
239 - "Nasty Ned" Fargo
238 - Tobe Palmer
217 - Will Haggan
181 - "Evil" Gary Archer

And the current HOFers:
440 - Andrew Murphy
407 - Tim Lopresto
309 - Cecil Tan
296 - Scott Fenner
288 - Allen Albertini
284 - Bowie Castellon
263 - Raymond Gindler
234 - Ahrend Nagel

Other Notables:
448 - Jethro Lee
430 - Frank Smith
347 - Otto "Kaiser" Kahle
342 - Anthony "Punchy" Cote
299 - Art Booth
287 - David Wickersham
282 - Bourbon Allen

Baum
Allen
Schwarz
Zegri
Brown
Reneau
Krosser
McBean
Fenner

Note how I resisted the temptation to vote for Duckie Andrew, even though he's my granddad? Hopefully the Vet Comm. will be more appreciative of a solid big league career than his good-for-nothing offspring . . .

Brown
Zegri
Reneau
Baum
Krosser
McBean
Archer

How can you people be so cheap and only vote for 3 or 4? There is actually some quality on these ballots!

In order of randomification;

Patrick Seifried
"Frenchie" Fournier
"Dark Horse" Allen
"Ray of Light" Brown
"Cookie" Parrish
"Rabbi" Baum----staggering number of all them: 0 (# of WS Titles)
Will Haggan
"Shephard" McBean
"Nasty Ned" Fargo
"Bull" Zegri

Fascinating numbers fhomess. It's interesting to see that both of them aren't in the Hall, yet "The Professor", Mr. 100% has a lower FWP and is in. Hmmm...

Another observation, this has to be the Year of the Nickname

Lol... If my math is correct, 14 of the 22 players on the ballot have nicknames.

Dark Horse Allen
Shepard McBean
Krosser
Fournier
Brown
Parrish
Haggan
Baum (Go 2nd half of the A's Bombers!)
Archer...The Kid Nichols of TWB
Hertzog

Yes, but as I've said before....the numbers don't factor in CHARISMA :D

Slap Hertzog
Willard Schwartz
Thunder Tumbridge
Rabbi Baum
Will Haggan

fhomess wrote:

> Can someone explain to me why Mark Krosser
> always gets more votes than Dave McBean?
> In my book, these guys deserve to go in
> together. McBean was the equal to Krosser
> and people are missing that fact.

I can't speak for other people, but my thoughts are here back in the Time Warp HOF Ballot 1941.

On the Proffesor, he is in for his peak:

Won Pitcher of the Year Award in 1924
Won Pitcher of the Year Award in 1925
Won Pitcher of the Year Award in 1926
Won Pitcher of the Year Award in 1928
Won Pitcher of the Year Award in 1929

ERA
1924 - 2nd
1925 - 1st
1926 - 3rd
1927 - 5th
1928 - 2nd
1929 - 2nd

WHIP
1924 - 1st
1925 - 1st
1926 - 1st
1927 - 2nd
1928 - 2nd
1929 - 2nd

Wins
1924 - 2nd
1925 - 1st
1926 - 1st
1927 - 7th
1928 - 1st
1929 - 1st

His actually better than his ERA placements reflect as he was hurt by his bandbox home park - 3.04 ERA at home and 2.76 on the road. It actually was typically a bigger split than that as his amazing pitching at home in 1925 makes the numbers "close" when they typically weren't:

1925
Home - 18-0 with an 1.87 ERA
Road - 13-6 with an 3.92 ERA

To cross reference with the ERA+ tossed up for Bowie, Krosser and McBean, here are Nagel's in that six year run:

1925 - 180
1929 - 171
1928 - 168
1924 - 163
1926 - 153
1927 - 135

They're better than McBean's peak. Where Nagel run into "problems" is that the rest of his "good" to "average" season fall off fairly fast:

1923 - 139
1922 - 115
1932 - 111
1918 - 110
1920 - 104
1930 - 102
1919 - 102

McBean had five 119+ seasons in addition to his Top 6, three of those five being 130+. Of course there is the slight problem that McBean missed about 1/3rd of his starts in those three seasons, which does cut into the "value" of those season even if the "quality" was better.

Again, people voted for Nagel for the peak. Five POY in six years. I'll grant that his peak isn't one of the four or so best in TWB - Murph and Smith almost certainly would top him, and I suspect that Presto and Dodge would as well. But it's better than McBean and Krosser, and no worse than even if not better than Bowie's. I think we'd all agree that those three are all-time greats. When you're peak is better than three of the all-time greats, that pretty much is the definition of a HOFer, no?

I like McBean. I certainly could support his Vet Committee candidacy. His lack of even a single ERA title or even a WHIP title troubles me. He's right there "among" the best pitchers in the NL for a good amount of time, but really not the best.


John