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The 2012 Baseball Hall Of Fame Ballot – The Snubbed: Edgardo Alfonzo

I intended this to be an article on my non-existent Hall Of Fame ballot (which will come soon enough) but when I went looking for the "official" ballot to see who was on it, I realized that not every player would be on it that was eligible. Now, I get that a guy like Chris Mabeus wouldn't be listed, but I guess I just kind of assumed that anyone who had any sort of career would be listed. Not so.

There are twenty-seven players on this year's BBWAA ballot, of which thirteen are new to the ballot. According to the BBWAA website, "[a]bout 30 players are selected by a special, six-member screening committee, which pares down the list from all those who meet the eligibility requirements." If any two members of the screening committee nominate a player, he's on the ballot. It doesn't get into much more detail than that, so it's assumed that there is no set limit so-to-speak; the "around 30" number just happens to be what it has come out to in the past. Now, with players such as Phil Nevin and Tony Womack on the ballot, I wondered who didn't make the ballot. Someone needs to spotlight these guys, who had a career that was good enough at one time to have at least a decent amount of teams want to employ them at the major league level.

So I'll do just that. Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com for giving me a reference point. I'll try to do one a day. Today, thanks to alphabetical order, is...