The Contemporary Era Baseball Committee recently announced that former All-Star and MVP second baseman Jeff Kent has been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Congratulations are in order, but ... this year's ballot was weak.
If the committee was serious about making it an interesting ballot, they should have included former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Kenny Lofton in the conversation. If he had been on the ballot, the results might have looked very different.
Kenny Lofton's time in Pittsburgh was a relatively uneventful stint. Lofton suited up for 84 games in 2003 for the Bucs, batting .