Opinions about baseball writers’ Hall of Fame ballots are endless.
It’s easy to know the right answers until the empty squares are yours to check, or not.
I don’t have the honor/responsibility/headache yet, so I try to keep that in mind before hollering about Cooperstown conversations.
Most BBWAA voters care about the process, and whether they are small-Hall disciples or fill-every-box believers, they are fulfilling a complicated challenge. The overall process, which tends to get overshadowed by a few outlandish opinions every year, generally works pretty well, when you accept the fact that no group assigned to make sausage is going to always complete the job mess-free.