To get there, of course, we still need to generate another list of finalists. Recall that, a few months ago, many of you voted for the five Idle Time baseball greats worthy of Hall of Fame consideration. Now we’ll do the same for football. Expect one more poll like this, for the basketball nominees, sometime in January.
The twenty players on this list of football semifinalists represent each of the sixteen current teams in the league. Once the five finalists have been chosen, we’ll post some Idle Time résumés, like we did for baseball, as reference prior to casting votes.
Idle Time Career
2005: Locusts/Pine Tar Heroin
2005 – present: Pine Tar Heroin
Transaction History
2005 (Debut): drafted by Locusts in first round, 2nd overall; traded to Pine Tar Heroin with SP Horacio Ramirez for 1B Todd Helton and SP Jake Peavy on August 16
2006: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2007: retained by Pine Tar Heroin 2008: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2009: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2010: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2011: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2012: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2013: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
2014: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
Career Stats* / Rank**
Runs: 925 / 1st
Hits: 1560 / 7th
RBI: 994 / 2nd
HR: 332 / 1st
SB: 80 / 74th
AVG: .315 / 3rd (among players with min. 2500 PA)
OPS: .995 / 1st (among players with min. 2500 PA)
*through 2013; real MLB stats (including games that may or may not have been applicable to Idle Time fantasy matchups) **among all MLB players from 2005-2013Continue reading 2014 Finalist: Albert Pujols→
Idle Time Career
2005 – 2007: SoCal Slug/Pelican
2007 – present: (\(;;)/) Things
Transaction History
2005 (Debut): drafted by SoCal Slug in third round, 41st overall
2006: retained by SoCal Sluggers
2007: retained by Pelican (formerly SoCal Sluggers); traded to Homerun Gyros ((\(;;)/) Things) for OF Vlad Guerrero on July 13. 2008: retained by Homerun (\(;;)/) ((\(;;)/) Things)
2009: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2010: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2011: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2012: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2013: retained by (\(;;)/) Things 2014: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
Career Stats* / Rank**
Runs: 924 / 2nd
Hits: 1734 / 2nd
RBI: 1086 / 1st
HR: 320 / 3rd
SB: 31 / 141st
AVG: .327 / 1st (among players with min. 2500 PA)
OPS: .987 / 2nd (among players with min. 2500 PA)
*through 2013; real MLB stats (including games that may or may not have been applicable to Idle Time fantasy matchups) **among all MLB players from 2005-2013Continue reading 2014 Finalist: Miguel Cabrera→
Idle Time Career 2005 – present: Henry Rowengartner
Transaction History 2005 (Debut): drafted by Henry Rowengartner in ninth round, 136th overall
2006: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2007: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2008: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2009: retained by Henry Rowengartner2010: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2011: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2012: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2013: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2014: retained by Henry Rowengartner
Career Stats* / Rank**
Runs: 803 / 9th
Hits: 1307 / 26th
RBI: 730/ 23rd
HR: 202 / 28th
SB: 123/ 29th
AVG: .290 / 42nd (among players with min. 2500 PA)
OPS: .881 / 21st (among players with min. 2500 PA)
*through 2013; real MLB stats (including games that may or may not have been applicable to Idle Time fantasy matchups) **among all MLB players from 2005-2013Continue reading 2014 Finalist: Chase Utley→
Idle Time Career
2006: Homerun Weirdos ((\(;;)/) Things)
2007: Homerun Gyros ((\(;;)/) Things)/23
2008: 23/Homerun (\(;;)/) ((\(;;)/) Things)
2009 – present: (\(;;)/) Things
Transaction History 2006 (Debut): drafted by Homerun Weirdos ((\(;;)/) Things) in sixth round (after five rounds of keepers), 94th overall
2007: retained by Homerun Gyros ((\(;;)/) Things); traded with OF Bobby Abreu to 23 for SP Cliff Lee and OF Vlad Guerrero on May 21
2008: retained by 23; traded to Homerun (\(;;)/) ((\(;;)/) Things) with RP Huston Street for OF Nick Markakis and SP Rich Hill on May 20
2009: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2010: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2011: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2012: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2013: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
2014: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
Career Stats* / Rank**
IP: 1772.0 / 8th
W: 137 / 2nd
L: 77 / 73rd (among players with min. 900 IP)
SV: 0 / NA
K: 1671 / 3rd
ERA: 3.41 / 16th (among players with min. 900 IP)
WHIP: 1.19 / 14th (among players with min. 900 IP)
*through 2013; real MLB stats (including games that may or may not have been applicable to Idle Time fantasy matchups) **among all MLB players from 2005-2013Continue reading 2014 Finalist: Justin Verlander→
Idle Time Career
2006: WHIP-Hop Honeys/Locusts
2007 – present: Locusts
Transaction History
2006 (Debut): picked up as a free agent by WHIP-Hop Honeys on March 15, then dropped for OF Shannon Stewart on April 5; picked up as free agent by Locusts on April 9.
2007: retained by Locusts
2008: retained by Locusts
2009: retained by Locusts
2010: retained by Locusts 2011: retained by Locusts
2012: retained by Locusts
2013: retained by Locusts
2014: retained by Locusts
Career Stats* / Rank**
Runs: 748 / 17th
Hits: 1145 / 58th
RBI: 539 / 72nd
HR: 156 / 61st
SB: 172 / 20th
AVG: .273 / 121st (among players with min. 2500 PA)
OPS: .804 / 84th (among players with min. 2500 PA)
*through 2013; real MLB stats (including games that may or may not have been applicable to Idle Time fantasy matchups) **among all MLB players from 2005-2013Continue reading 2014 Finalist: Ian Kinsler→
The results of last week’s poll are in, and we now have the five baseball finalists for the 2014 Idle Time Hall of Fame induction.
Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Chase Utley, Justin Verlander, and Ian Kinsler will form the baseball column of the tri-sport ballot. They’ll be alongside five players from the football league, and five from basketball.
Like the BBWAA, you can vote for all, some, or none of the finalists. You’ll only vote for sports in which you participate. So, if you’re in all three leagues, you can check off boxes in all three columns. A player will need 75% of the ballots to gain entry into the HoF. Continue reading Hall of Fame 2014: The Baseball Finalists→
Rather than create separate Halls for each of the three Idle Time leagues, we’ve decided to create one Idle Time Fantasy Hall of Fame to immortalize the greatest of the great. The inaugural Hall of Fame class will be voted on this September, sometime during the great Fantasy Convergence, the one time each year when all the stars and all the leagues intersect.
To narrow down the list of nominees, we’ll be posting polls like this. The top five players in each sport will then find themselves on the Official Ballot… and we’ll proceed from there. Voting process and number of elected members still TBD.
The twenty-three players on this list of baseball semifinalists represent each of the sixteen current teams in the league. Check out the individual team pages for a quick summary of their tenure with those clubs.
Transaction History
2008: retained by Pine Tar Heroin
Heroin
Transaction History
2008: retained by Homerun (\(;;)/) ((\(;;)/) Things)
2014: retained by (\(;;)/) Things
Transaction History 2005 (Debut): drafted by Henry Rowengartner in ninth round, 136th overall
2010: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2011: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2012: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2013: retained by Henry Rowengartner 2014: retained by Henry Rowengartner
Idle Time Career
2006 (Debut): drafted by Homerun Weirdos ((\(;;)/) Things) in sixth round (after five rounds of keepers), 94th overall
(;;)/) ((\(;;)/) Things) with RP Huston Street for OF Nick Markakis and SP Rich Hill on May 20
Idle Time Career
April 5; picked up as free agent by Locusts on April 9.
2011: retained by Locusts
Rather than create separate Halls for each of the three Idle Time leagues, we’ve decided to create one Idle Time Fantasy Hall of Fame to immortalize the greatest of the great. The inaugural Hall of Fame class will be voted on this September, sometime during the great Fantasy Convergence, the one time each year when all the stars and all the leagues intersect.
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