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A quick run-through of the four polarizing 10th-year candidates whose progress towards 75% has stalled.

The dynamo of five straight NL East champions has a stronger case on the traditional merits than the advanced stats.

A defensively elite third baseman and an offensive force as well, he's posted huge gains on back-to-back ballots and is trending towards eventual election.

No candidate for president of the United States has ever come close to winning 71 percent of the popular vote. Oh sure, George Washington, the GOAT of presidents, won unanimously twice, but that was in the dead-ball era of presidential elections, when there was no popular vote; the only votes were cast by the electoral college until 1824. The record holder among modern presidents is Lyndon B. Johnson, who in 1964 racked up an impressive 60.3 percent of the total vote cast. But that was nowhere near the 71.1 percent that Curt Schilling got in the recent Hall of Fame voting. The difference was...

It’s been just a little over a day since the Rockies officially traded away the face of the franchise, Nolan Arenado, and the wound is still fresh. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time a star player has been traded away from the Rockies and it probably won’t be the last. Many comparisons are being made to Matt Holliday and Troy Tulowitzki who were both shipped out of Denver in their prime, but I would like to shed some light on another comp: Scott Rolen. Prior to the trade deadline of the 2002 season, Scott Rolen was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the St. Louis Cardinals. In...