Don mattingly and steve garvey are two big names getting a second shot at the hall of fame through the modern baseball era committee ballot.
Mattingly hall of fame.
Don mattingly is once again up for consideration for the national baseball hall of fame as one of 10 finalistsvying for induction on the 2020 modern baseball era ballot.
His bbwaa ballot eligibility is used up in 15 ballots he never got more than 28 support.
By paul casella paul casella december 4 2019 don mattingly is once again up for consideration for the national baseball hall of fame as one of 10 finalists vying for induction on the 2020 modern baseball era ballot.
As hernandez and mattingly demonstrate as do a host of other borderline hall of fame players for the yankees and mets who didn t get some magic new york bump new york guys who are not.
So the only way he can get in the hall of fame now is for the modern game era committee formerly known as the veterans committee to elect him.
Eight of them are in the hall of fame a ninth ichiro suzuki will be in a few years and the other two.
The problem is that their cases remain just as weak as.
He led the majors with 684 rbis and 257 doubles and was third in overall hits.
But when looking back at it it s hard not to think about what could have been.
Mattingly will learn his fate on sunday when the results will be announced on mlb network at 8 p m.
Mattingly will learn his fate on sunday when the results will be announced on mlb network at 8 p m.
The fact that we re still debating whether don mattingly belongs in the hall of fame means he had a great career.