Comments on: The Veterans Committee Nominees: “After-1942 Election” http://seamheads.com/2008/09/24/the-veterans-committee-nominees-after-1942-election/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Hoban http://seamheads.com/2008/09/24/the-veterans-committee-nominees-after-1942-election/comment-page-1/#comment-3586 Mike Hoban Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:48:02 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/09/24/the-veterans-committee-nominees-after-1942-election/#comment-3586 Keith, Actually, Minoso was eligible. He was one of the 21 original candidates. This group was reduced to 10 by the Screening Committee. How they could have chosen most of these players over Minnie is beyond me. I agree that Torre has been underrated as a player. Mike<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3586','Mike Hoban'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3586','Mike Hoban','Keith,\r\n\r\nActually, Minoso was eligible. He was one of the 21 original candidates. This group was reduced to 10 by the Screening Committee. How they could have chosen most of these players over Minnie is beyond me.\r\n\r\nI agree that Torre has been underrated as a player.\r\n\r\nMike'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Keith,

Actually, Minoso was eligible. He was one of the 21 original candidates. This group was reduced to 10 by the Screening Committee. How they could have chosen most of these players over Minnie is beyond me.

I agree that Torre has been underrated as a player.

Mike

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]]> By: Keith http://seamheads.com/2008/09/24/the-veterans-committee-nominees-after-1942-election/comment-page-1/#comment-3582 Keith Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:46:31 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/09/24/the-veterans-committee-nominees-after-1942-election/#comment-3582 Minoso was part of the special Negro League election a couple of years back, which may have made him ineligible for the after-1942 election. You know, as overrated as Torre is as a manager, he was even more underrated as a player. Although he "only" played 900 games at catcher, he threw out 41% of would-be basestealers in that time. He also has more career batting runs than any catcher not named Mike Piazza.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3582','Keith'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3582','Keith','Minoso was part of the special Negro League election a couple of years back, which may have made him ineligible for the after-1942 election. \r\n\r\nYou know, as overrated as Torre is as a manager, he was even more underrated as a player. Although he \"only\" played 900 games at catcher, he threw out 41% of would-be basestealers in that time. He also has more career batting runs than any catcher not named Mike Piazza.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Minoso was part of the special Negro League election a couple of years back, which may have made him ineligible for the after-1942 election.

You know, as overrated as Torre is as a manager, he was even more underrated as a player. Although he “only” played 900 games at catcher, he threw out 41% of would-be basestealers in that time. He also has more career batting runs than any catcher not named Mike Piazza.

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