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The speedster was one of the most electrifying player of the 2000s, but a bad free agent contract and post-career legal troubles have overshadowed his legacy.

He won't win any popularity contests, but the backstop carved out a 19-year major league career.

The slugging first baseman was a cornerstone of the Phillies' five-year run atop the NL East, but injuries shortened his career.

In today’s Five-Tool Newsletter, we look at some lesser-talked-about players debuting on the ballot. Plus, baseball’s first labor war, trivia and a mailbag.

Tim Lincecum won’t make the Hall of Fame, but that shouldn’t take away from the Giants ace’s initial dominance.

A former MVP whose career path was altered by concussions.

The prodigious slugger was home run royalty, but his career was cut short by neck woes.

Plus the DH and the Hall of Fame, a Willie Wilson-Juan Pierre comp, Manny Acta on Billy Wagner, and more.

The real thing.

For all of his natural abilities and accomplishments, the shortstop's connections to PEDs will keep him outside Cooperstown for the foreseeable future.