Good morning, baseball fans!
As always these days, it’s a slow time for baseball news. So we’re circling back on the Hall of Fame ballots. This time, we’ll be looking at one of our own local beat writers, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area, who submitted his first ballot this year, which included votes for former San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds (his final appearance on the ballot) and Tim Lincecum (first appearance).
Pavlovic explains his ballot choices in a wonderful piece here that you should definitely read as well. He explains that Bonds was an obvious choice, and that he doesn’t find it rational to exclude players from the PED era, when it’s clear that that was just a part of the game at that time.