TORONTO — Now that Joey Votto's Major League Baseball career is officially over, there's only one question remaining: will he become the third Canadian enshrined in Baseball's Hall of Fame? Although there's no doubt that the 2010 National League MVP
TORONTO — Now that Joey Votto's Major League Baseball career is officially over, there's only one question remaining: will he become the third Canadian enshrined in Baseball's Hall of Fame?
But gaining entry into Cooperstown is a more exacting process, with players inducted into the Hall of Fame through election by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Players become eligible five years after retirement and are elected if they're named on 75 per cent or more of all ballots cast. A player who is named on fewer than 5 per cent of ballots is dropped from future elections.
But Votto's career began in 2007, four years after Michael Lewis's highly influential book"Moneyball" came out, a tome that helped reshape how baseball executives and fans interpreted statistics. He also rose to prominence as MLB reckoned with the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport, leading to many surefire Hall of Famers like Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro and Roger Clemens to be all but eliminated from consideration.
JAWS, a statistic that averages a players' career WAR with the WAR of their seven-year peak and therefore rewards consistency, is perhaps Votto's strongest stat. His 55.7 JAWS is safely above the 53.4 average for players in Cooperstown that played the same position.
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