"Terry Francona, Rolen's manager with the Phillies, when asked if Rolen could play shortstop: "He's covering short now."
Yes, Scott #Rolen absolutely deserves to be in the HOF.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35519454/why-scott-rolen-voted-baseball-hall-fame
For once, the longstanding errors get fixed and fortunately the cheaters who desecrated the game don't get rewarded again this year.
But it is remains a national crime that #LouWhitaker is not in the #HallofFame.
"Did they feel like Hall of Famers while active? Probably not."
Actually, yes, Scott #Rolen did, to anyone who follows baseball closely, & we really should stop this annual nonsense
Here's another way to "put #Rolen's 70.1 WAR in perspective." If he'd played for the Yankees & had ~the same career statistically, he'd be a near-unanimous first ballot Hall of Famer like...Derek #Jeter 👇 🧐 🤷♂️
Like Alan Trammell & Lou Whitaker, Rolen's only mistake was not playing in NY
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35510142/mlb-baseball-hall-fame-day-2023-explained
After falling 47 votes short of election in 2022, Scott Rolen will look to make further progress toward eventual enshrinement in Cooperstown as he appears on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Hall of Fame ballot for the sixth time. Rolen once appeared to be a Hall of Fame long
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