This afternoon, the Baseball Corridor of Fame announced its eight nominees for the 2024 Period Committee. Beforehand often called the Veterans Committee, the Period Committee is a 16-person panel that considers nominees exterior the purview of induction for gamers by way of the Baseball Writers Affiliation of America.
The 2024 class issues managers, executives and umpires whose major contributions to the sport have come since 1980. Final yr’s committee targeted on gamers inside that very same timeframe and elected Fred McGriff. Subsequent winter’s nominees will probably be people who most impacted the game earlier than 1980.
Listed here are the candidates this winter:
- Cito Gaston (supervisor)
- Davey Johnson (supervisor)
- Jim Leyland (supervisor)
- Ed Montague (umpire)
- Hank Peters (government)
- Lou Piniella (supervisor)
- Joe West (umpire)
- Invoice White (government)
The managers are seemingly most acquainted to current followers. Gaston led the Blue Jays for 13 seasons over two stints. His first stretch on the helm, spanning 1989-97, was very profitable. Gaston first took over in Might ’89 when the membership dismissed Jimy Williams after a 12-24 begin. They completed with a 77-49 file beneath Gaston’s watch, claiming the AL East title. That kicked off a stretch of 4 division wins in a five-year span. Whereas they have been bounced within the ALCS in 1989 and ’91, the Jays gained back-to-back World Sequence in 1992 and ’93.
Johnson managed virtually 2500 video games in 17 seasons between 1984-2013. He started with the Mets, main them to 108 wins and their dramatic World Sequence victory over the Pink Sox by his third season. Whereas that was the one title of his managerial profession, Johnson led the Mets to 6 straight profitable campaigns. He led the Reds (1993-95), Orioles (1996-97) and Dodgers (1999-2000) throughout the next decade. Johnson concluded his profession with three seasons on the helm of the Nationals from 2011-13. He led at the very least one playoff staff in 4 of his 5 stops. His groups gained 56.2% of their common season contests.
Leyland had a 22-year profession as a giant league skipper. He managed just below 3500 video games between the Pirates, Marlins, Rockies and Tigers. He led Pittsburgh to a few straight division titles between 1990-92 as a part of an 11-year run within the Metal Metropolis. Throughout his first season managing in Florida, Leyland led a 92-win staff from a Wild Card berth to a championship in simply the fifth season in Marlins historical past. He didn’t discover success throughout a lone season in Colorado however led the Tigers to a pennant in 2006, his first season on the helm in Detroit. Leyland managed by means of 2013, profitable three straight division titles from 2011-13 and claiming one other AL pennant in 2012. He’s 18th in profession wins with 1,769 common season victories.
Piniella is simply forward of him on that leaderboard, rating seventeenth with 1,835 wins. The fiery skipper had a 23-year managerial profession between the Yankees, Reds, Mariners, Satan Rays and Cubs. He led the Reds to the 1990 World Sequence throughout his first season in Cincinnati. Whereas that was the one time that considered one of his groups would play within the Fall Basic, he had a number of playoff appearances in Seattle and Chicago. Piniella was on the helm for the ’01 Mariners staff tied for the all-time wins file (116) and led consecutive division winners with the Cubs in 2007-08.
Peters was a high-ranking government for the A’s, Indians and Orioles between 1965-91. He helped assemble the farm system for the A’s groups that gained three World Sequence within the 1970’s, though he was now not with the group when the foremost league staff blossomed. Peters was on the helm with Baltimore for his or her 1979 pennant and 1983 World Sequence victory. He led Cleveland within the late-’80s, serving to set the stage for the Indians’ run of success the next decade.
White, a former star first baseman, served as president of the Nationwide League from 1989-94. He additionally had a prolonged broadcasting run as a part of a profession that spanned 5 a long time. As a participant, he completed in third place in 1964 NL MVP balloting for the Cardinals’ World Sequence winner and is a part of the staff’s Corridor of Fame.
Montague managed over 4,000 MLB video games from 1974-2009. West, one of many sport’s most well-known umpires, officiated a file 5,460 contests between 1976 and his retirement in February 2022.
Nominees want 12 of 16 votes to realize induction. The voting will happen throughout December’s Winter Conferences.
