When the Today’s Game Committee met just over a week ago, it did the thing it’s done repeatedly over the past several years. It voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame the two most obvious candidates on its ballot, Atlanta Braves president John Schuerholz and former MLB commissioner Bud Selig.
Beginning with the 2011 induction, what’s colloquially known as the "veterans committee" has voted in just two players, both dead, while voting in three managers, four executives and an umpire. Six of the 10 selections have been candidates up for consideration for the first time by any Hall of Fame voting body: Selig, Schuerholz, Pat Gillick, Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox,
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There’s an easy explanation for why this has happened.