The Baseball Hall of Fame website has a list of “future eligibles,” players who will have the right time away from the game to be included on ballots in the next few years. Here, take a look. Some are iffy picks—there always will be now, I think—but there’s a lot where I’m pretty much like, “yeah, no brainer.”
On that note, we turn our attention to the second of three former Pirates on this year’s ballot, Aramis Ramírez. Ramírez, who played for the Bucs from 1998 to mid-2003, isn’t a no-brainer but doesn’t quite hit the “really?