Today brings the announcement of the 2018 induction class for the MLB Hall of Fame. Again, as last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, those of us who want to see Edgar elected will be holding our collective breath, hoping against hope that certain voters will see the light, will have seen it fit to check off Edgar’s name on their ballots. Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s tracker, those of us who care have spent this long, cold, exquisitely boring offseason studying the tracker intently, watching our hopes rise and fall in real time.
Edgar Martinez and Pulling the Arc of the Hall of Fame Towards Justice
