SAN DIEGO — Don Mattingly’s wait continues.
The previous Yankees first baseman was handed over for the Baseball Corridor of Fame once more, when he didn’t get the required votes from the Up to date Baseball Period Committee on Sunday on the winter conferences.
Fred McGriff, who was drafted by the Yankees in 1981 earlier than a 19-year profession that earned him the nickname “Crime Canine,” was the one participant elected by the committee.
Mattingly, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro, Curt Schilling, Albert Belle and Dale Murphy all fell brief.
Gamers wanted to get a dozen votes among the many 16-person committee and McGriff was a unanimous alternative.
Mattingly was subsequent with eight votes, whereas Schilling obtained seven votes, Murphy earned six and Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro and Belle all received fewer than 4 votes.
In his 15 years on the Baseball Writers’ Affiliation of America Poll, Mattingly by no means got here near the 75 p.c wanted for enshrinement. Essentially the most he received was 28.2 p.c in his first yr of eligibility in 2001.
“It’s a want [to be a Hall of Famer],” Mattingly stated final week on “The Present with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman” podcast. “I believe each participant, it will be one thing that for those who felt such as you knew you’ve finished sufficient. Clearly individuals have a look at it as being on the borderline, proper? There’s those that voted for you, those that didn’t, completely different committees put you on and issues like that. So clearly you’re a type of guys that’s on the borderline.’’
Mattingly’s taking part in profession was lower brief by a persistent again damage that robbed him of his energy, however he was an All-Star six occasions, gained 9 Gold Gloves at first base and was the American League MVP in 1985, to go together with three different top-10 finishes for the award.
He completed his 14-year profession in 1995 with a .307 common, 2,153 hits, 222 homers and an OPS of .830.
“I don’t understand how else to take a look at it apart from you performed your playing cards, happy with my profession to an extent,’’ Mattingly stated. “I do know it didn’t finish the way in which I wished it to so far as manufacturing or time. However these are additionally playing cards that you simply’ve been dealt and also you do the perfect you may with it.”
Mattingly was among the many trio of noncontroversial gamers on the poll, together with McGriff, who hit 493 homers for six groups in his profession, and Murphy, a two-time NL MVP for the Braves who performed 18 seasons.
Bonds, Clemens and Palmeiro have been all strongly linked to steroid use and Schilling and Belle have lengthy been polarizing figures.
McGriff was drafted by the Yankees in 1981, however was traded to Toronto the following yr as a part of a bundle for Dale Murray in an ill-fated deal, as Murray pitched poorly for the Yankees over components of three seasons.
In the meantime, McGriff went on to star with the Blue Jays, Padres, Braves, Rays , Cubs and Dodgers in a profession that led to 2004.
The lefty-swinging first baseman spent 10 years on the BBWAA poll and peaked at 39.8 p.c in 2019, his closing yr of eligibility.
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