Best Podcast in Baseball 9.31: Hall of Fame Fallout with Jay Jaffe

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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With another year of Hall of Fame voting and angst over, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens ushered off the ballot, and David Ortiz welcomed into Cooperstown, Jay Jaffe, senior writer at FanGraphs.com and Hall of Fame aficionado, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss what it all means. Does Ortiz's first-ballot induction set the stage for a new precedent when it comes to specialists like relievers or players with ties to performance-enhancing drugs, however vague or intangible? Does Scott Rolen's second significant jump in as many years put him on deck for induction in 2023, and does that mean Cooperstown is starting to feel the glove? If so, Yadier Molina -- first ballot? Jaffe, author of The Cooperstown Casebook and essential reading every Hall of Fame season at FanGraphs, joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss their ballots, the trends, the frustrations, and where several prominent current and former Cardinals fit on the road to bronze at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:17.2	Rather than Molina being a kind of a polarizing Jack Morris type candidate, where people are arguing over the eye test and old school stuff, I think the advanced statistics do clearly support the idea that Molina, the equivalent of a Hall of Fame catcher.
0:43.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closet by
0:46.5	Design of St. Louis.
0:47.5	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joining this week, the perfect guest
0:51.8	for this week, because to quote Tony Larusa, he'd be tied for
0:55.7	first in the knowledge of not just the Hall of Fame history, but the Hall of Fame voting
1:00.0	process. And that's senior writer at Fangraph's Jay Jaffe, author of the Cooperstown casebook,
1:06.2	and you saw him everywhere this week. I mean, you were on an athletic YouTube program with Ken
1:12.3	Rosenthal. Then the next day, Jay, I saw you pop up an MLB network. You were like the go-to guy,
1:17.4	and I appreciate you taking the time to let me come in here as, you know, I guess on day three
1:23.6	it is and pester you with more of the same questions. Yeah.
1:28.1	Thanks, Derek.
1:28.9	It's good to be here.
1:29.6	Good to talk to you.
1:30.4	I know from our conversations beyond the podcast that you're somebody who's passionate
1:35.0	about the Hall of Fame and appreciates the minutia as well.
1:38.9	So it seems like a no-brainer to talk about because we've been talking about the
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