Good morning, Camden Chatters.
It’s Hall of Fame voting season, and this year’s batch of eligible inductees was announced yesterday. Among the new candidates, most of the national media attention is going to Derek Jeter — because of course it is — but here in Birdland, the bigger story is that longtime Orioles second baseman and leadoff hitter Brian Roberts is listed on the ballot.
This year’s newcomers are players who last played in 2014 and spent at least 10 years in the majors, but not all such players even make it through the screening process to get their names listed (Erik Bedard and Nate McLouth, for instance, didn’t make the cut despite fitting the criteria).