No sooner does Alan Trammell fall off the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot than Ivan Rodriguez and Magglio Ordonez go on it. Both played the bulk of their careers in other places and wouldn't go into the Hall of Fame with a Tigers cap, yet both are revered around Detroit.
"I've been thinking about it," Rodriguez told MLB Network Radio on Thursday morning. "I never was a player to think about any of that as far as the numbers and the carryover now. It's going to be four years as a retired player, and with the career that I've got, I've been thinking about it.