How many times do you need to be great to become immortal?
More than ever before, that's the question that has weighed on my mind this winter as I follow the progress of the 2025 Hall of Fame voting. Actually, it's two questions: How many great seasons does a player need to put up before he's a Hall of Famer? And once he has recorded those seasons, can he then play his way out of the Hall?
There is no perfect way to answer the first question, though with the second question, I've emphatically landed on "no" as the answer.