so you think you know baseball............

HOF eligible meaning they retired, are on the HOF Ballot, but weren't voted in the HOF?

Roy Halladay retired but he's not on the ballot yet.

Johan Santana may be one...

the only other 2x Cy winner is Tim Lincecum, but i thought he was still playing? Obviosuly Kershaw and Scherzer are still playing too.

 

Well you named all 5 guys that are multiple time winners that aren't eligible yet lol.

HOF-eligible meaning they played at least 10 years and retired at least 5, so are or were on the ballot, yes.

 

Jaun Marichal and Denny McClain? Are they in the HOF?

 

marichal is. mcclain is not. but mcclain isn't eligible for the HOF as it's been past 15 yrs. ??

 

see to me that's wrong. HOF eligible means they are eligible RIGHT NOW and that makes them eligible. "Were" means they were eligible at some point but never got in.

the question says "who are eligible," not "who were eligible."

 

Not sure I understand the question either???????

 

regardless - it's Mcclain and Bret Saberhagen

 

I have no interest in getting into a debate over verb tenses, but it's not my definition, it's the HOF's...

"Players who are eligible have played 10 seasons of Major League Baseball and have been retired from for five full seasons."

The question was worded specifically to exclude the 3 active guys and the 2 guys that haven't been retired for 5 full years yet.

Anyway, Cat or somebody else can take a turn.

 

u dog- all you had to say was "name 2 guys who were eligible for the hof but never made it and won 2 cy young awards." it's not on verb tense. it's how you asked it. hof eligible means guys on the ballot now. not former eligible players that can't be voted into the hof. that's a big difference.

anyways...

this is an easy one - name 3 players, who won 2 mvps, that are not in the hof and no longer eligible for the hof?

not counting barry bonds or all active players!! this excludes a-rod too as he may be technically active still.

 

Writers' ballot isn't the only way in. 10 years as an active player, 5 years retired = eligible. Period. Full stop.

 

Juan Gonzalez
Roger Maris
Dale Murphy

 

Don Newcombe won the very first Cy Young award in 1956. Despite the fact it was a combined AL/NL award at that time, only 3 other pitchers received votes that year. Name them.

(hints, the runner-up was a veteran pitcher near the end of his career who was traded during that season, the other two guys were both future CYA winners and HOF'ers)

 

sal maglie, spahn and whitey ford

 

Newcombe also won NL MVP that year. He had no chance at the AL one even if he played in the NL as Mantle won the Triple Crown that year and won the AL MVP.

 

bueno

 

All 3 guys were up for MVP too which Newcombe won and Hank Aaron were top 4.

 

since 1900 - who has the least amount of HRs to win the Triple Crown and how many was it ?

 

Ty Cobb? That's a guess so I have no idea on a number, but I'm betting it was a turn of the century guy and the number was in the single digits.

 

it's Cobb and it's 9. A few had in the teens for HRs, but before 1900, Paul Hines, the first TC hitter, had a whooping 4 hrs. haha.

 

That is interesting. Never knew he had a home run championship.