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He played baseball.... He knew baseball.. He loved baseball.. 10 yrs.. he was baseball

Should have been in ... 1983 regular vote....

Don Mattingly please ⚾️

I think the service time is a little overstated for Skenes. Whether his talent was MLB ready or not, he never pitched close to the workload a full MLB season has. For him to come up in May was necessary to allow him to pitch through the end of the season - giving him that time to ramp up. To say Skenes doesn't deserve the award due to being 2-4 starts short just incentivizes teams from bringing up phenom rookies sooner. Pittsburgh is going to be penalized for this award because he didn't meet the service time requirement, but was good enough to win anyway. The Pirates may have been better overall if they just left Skenes in the minors for the whole year and instead gave him the full 2025. Would you have preferred that? If this were an MVP conversation, the games-played would have more weight to it, especially since pitchers already have the CYA. But there is no pitcher ROTY award for Skenes, so they are forced to compete against each other, even when their roles are not exactly comparable. That being said, it wasn't as much of a snub as it appears on narrative alone. Merrill may have been super clutch, while playing a premium position, but the 156 games he played this year only garnered him 4.4 baseball-reference WAR (5.3 fangraphs WAR). Skenes, without the whole month of April, accumulated 5.9 baseball reference WAR (4.3 fangraphs WAR). Skenes was able to accumulate more of a results-based, cumulative stat (bWAR) than Merrill, in fewer games played. The value there kinda offsets the games-played factor. Also, the Kerkering over Skenes because he pitched the whole year is hilarious lol 133.0 IP "not a full year" but 63.0 IP "pitched the whole year"

If Roki Sasaki knows business and takes the smart route, he should sign with the Yankees. He alone will be the only Japanese star and his Jerseys will likely sell more in the east coast. This allows him to leverage the Yankee market to attract more endorsements.

John olerud is a hof

Keith Hernandez not being in the HOF is an absurdity. Olerud getting less than 1% of the vote is absurd. But he played in the peak of devastating first base sluggers and most of those guys didn’t get in either. Seems like a bit of HOF bias. All those guys did was defend well beyond their compatriots, give you well above average seasons without giving you superstar monster seasons, and WIN. EVERYWHERE. THEY. WENT. That HAS to count for something, yet it seems it doesn’t. They made their teams instantly better all the time, no matter the situation. Not a lot of players can say that.

Give him a new contract . Don't lose him like Chicago did.he might keep hitting to 36

Compare Scott Rolen with Jim Edmonds. No comparison, if Scott Rolen is a HOF, Jim Edmonds easily is based on defense & offense.

He didn't play big league ball so WGAF?

Racial pandering to the tenth degree! His stats don’t matter! He didn’t play MLB

Stop talking. Shut up! Show highlights. Facts. You talk way too much.

I know that Brian McCann was not one of the best catchers ever, but he had a solid career. Seven time all-star, six-time silver slugger, he hit 282 career home runs, but his WAR is very low, just 32 career WAR. I do believe he'll get some consideration. Great video!

As a Mariners fan, I wouldn't be shocked if Felix Hernandez doesn't get in. His prime years were definitely cut short by his health. That being said, imagine if he was on a team with better run support. Winning the Cy Young with a 13-12 record speaks volumes about how filthy the dude was in his prime. Also if Ichiro isn't Unanimous we riot.

Kirby’s batting average ranks in the top 5 since 1960, for players with at least 2,500 at bats. And of those 5 players, only Kirby and Roberto Clemente hit 200 homers.

Both white and black baseball players played winter ball in the Caribbean. To, as he says, make money. They weren't paid millions and millions until free agency cam about in the 70s. Barnstorming is still barnstorming and while there is some seriousness to it, there is also an exhibition quality to it and frequently the "local" team were a bunch of folks from the local factory. That's part of why barnstorming stats aren't included. That said, who can say that when, in a barnstorming game, pitcher X did or didn't bear down against hitter Y. Honus Wagner said it was an honor to be compare to Pop Lloyd (look him up). But Satchel Paige wasn't even the greatest Negro League pitcher. In a poll, the Negro League players themselves voted "Smokey" Joe Williams as the greatest Negro League pitcher. Satchel Paige was more of a showman and self promoter so he gets more press.

Best pitcher in the league!

bro you just yapping

worst 8 minutes i have ever watched

It was supposed to be about the best players but since some of the best players want to opt out then make it about the most exciting players yeah the best one should be there

Buddy your opinion don't mean nothing

He deserves to be there He's the most exciting guy to watch in the league

that made no sense all. if elly was there then skenes should be there. pretty sure skenes has done alot more this year than elly had done last year at AS break.

You have no idea what the All Star Game is even about. It’s about showcasing the best and for MLB to gain more viewers and gain more revenue. It’s all about the $$$$

He’s gonna win the Cy Young

Ok dude.

Did Kent ever play with the Pirates?

MLB was stupid to have barred black players. They would have made far more money had they hired able Negro League players. Spectators don't care about the color of players, they care about how the players play!

as far as records, it's mixing apples and oranges...absolutely he belongs in the HOF...shamefully the wrong people ruled baseball in not allowing.. a massive stain on baseball and it's records and society in general...what were we thinking or not thinking?

who cares, we all goin to go back in time to check? just the blacks trying to take shots at white baseball players, they cant stand to see a white athlete be great....... blacks always try and knock down whitey...

They're always hollering about the 27' Yankees, but I'll put up the 31' Homestead Grays againdt them or anyone in the MLB.

Josh Gibson was built like Bo Jackson.

Josh Gibson more overrated than derek jeter.

People will always exaggerate what doesn't need to be just to live vicariously or sound important. Gibson could've hit a ball 550' and people will swear they were there and it went 700' (on the fly) or this person threw a 90-mph screw-knuckle-curve and struck out Babe Ruth five times during an exhibition game in Podunk, Iowa. They didn't turn pro because they were 35 and died in a corn-shucking accident a year later

JOSH WAS WAAAAAAAAAAY BETTER THAN RUTH. IF ANYTHING, RUTH WOULD BE COMPARED TO JOSH GIBSON.

WE LOVE GIBSON IN PUERTO RICO. LEGEND

NO...SMDH YOU CANT LEAVE THE HOME RUNS OUT SMH. THE BROTHER HIT OVER 800 HOMERS. HE SHOULD DEFINITELY GET CREDIT FOR IT.

THE HELL WITH THE BEST CATCHER EVER... JOSH IS THE G.O.A.T OF BASEBALL. THE BEST TO EVER DO IT.

For me the real MLB began when the league integrated the negro and latino players.

Well the legendary Sixto Escobar have 485 feet in CF plus group of pines and Gibson hit a homerun over the pones a 500 ft blast,the pitcher was Freddie Thon .

Go Birds 🦅

Josh never said he hit a ball out of yankee stadium he did say he hit it deep into the blechers

Ruth played 16 barnstorming games vs black all stars and batted .455 with 12 home runs…. These were against ALLSTARS.

PHILLY SUCKS!!!!!

It's a slippery slope when you start comparing numbers between leagues, unfortunately. I have no doubt that Gibson was among the greatest hitters of his generation, but comparing his 43 numbers to Ty Cobb doesn't really work. Same with comparing his amount of HRs to Ruth. Ruth did a ton of barnstorming as well, for instance. By all accounts, Gibson was an incredible talent, and that's enough for me.

Most definitely. No question. This from a Phillies phan. CMON NOW! FIX THIS.

Baseball is all about believing the false myth or story. If Ruth called his shot, then Gibson hit one outside the old Yankee Stadium. Ruth never called that shot and Gibson never hit one outside of Yankees Stadium, yet I believe both.

That artwork sucks

Segregation robbed us(those of us who watch old baseball games) the opportunity to see Gibson play... It breaks my heart to know segregation the rule before Jackie Robinson. It is interesting it happened shortly after Gibson's untimely death from a brain tumor. I do appreciate the X-files episode that was a tribute to him.

Wow how awesome was it for Satchel and Josh to become good friends and ending up playing with and against each other during the prime of their careers. That’s like ‘99 Pedro playing with ‘01 Bonds but still not being quite as good as Satch and Josh. That’s hella extra super crazy to think about. Now also remember, if Satchel said Josh was “SuperHuman”, it only means that Satchel had to be “SuperHuman” himself. I could only imagine the unbelievable legendary stories that were being told just from this short period of time. And the fact of how all of these the stories being told by so many different ppl have somehow remarkably stayed on key only makes them more logical to believe. Nowadays you can’t even get a story to stay the same for a week and that’s even with having the internet to document every last single thing. Just proves that Life can be very unknowingly interesting at times. Make sure you take it all in! (⏸️)