Mike Trout and What Might Have Been

Here’s a new way of breaking down the Hall of Fame from anything I’ve done before… and I’m only doing it today to talk about just how heartbroken I am over the news that Mike Trout is hurt yet again. This time it’s his knee; he needs surgery. The Angels were quick to say that they don’t believe it to be season-ending.

You know things are getting repetitive on the injury front when the first thing that anyone says is, “We don’t think it’s season-ending.”

But we’ll get back to Trout in a minute.

Here’s what I want to do: I want to show you who was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America in every decade since the 1960s. I’ll bold those who were elected first-ballot. There are a couple of points to this, and, in time, we’ll get it back around to Mike Trout.