Jordan Zimmerman first made it to the majors in 2009 as the fifth starter in the bullpen of the Washington Nationals. However, his debut was short-lived as he underwent Tommy John Surgery after 16 starts and was unable to return until late 2010.

In 2011, Zimmerman was healthy and used his three-pitch arsenal to record a 3.18 ERA, but his record was losing (8-11). The following season, he improved his performance (12-8, 2.94 ERA), but it was in the next two seasons that he became one of the best players in the National League.

Zimmerman was an All-Star in both 2013 and 2014, leading the National League in Wins (19) in 2013, and BB/9 in 2014 (1.3). He finished seventh and fifth, respectively, for the Cy Young award.

After a decent 2015, Zimmerman signed with the Detroit Tigers. However, his performance deteriorated, and he had a 5.63 ERA over 99 games in Detroit. He attempted a comeback with Milwaukee in 2021, but he retired after only two games.

Although Zimmerman's career was not long, and he had less than 100 wins, he is currently in the top one hundred all-time in BB/9 (1.9) and SO/BB (3.67). Zimmerman will not make it to the Hall of Fame, but we appreciate pitchers who rarely allow free passes, especially in an era where walks are celebrated.

Jonathan Lucroy had a successful career that lasted for 12 seasons. However, his best season was in 2014, when he played for the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that drafted him.

Lucroy made his debut for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2010 and mostly played as a catcher. He won the starting job in 2011, but it was in 2014 when he had his best year. In that season, he led the National League in doubles (53), had 176 hits, went to his first All-Star Game, and was fourth in the MVP voting. Although he made it to the All-Star Game once again in 2016, he was traded to Texas after that.

For the rest of his career, Lucroy was mostly used for depth by various teams, including Colorado, Oakland, Los Angeles (Angels), Chicago (Cubs), Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago (AL), Washington, and Atlanta.

In addition, Lucroy was part of the United States team that won the 2017 World Baseball Classic Championship. While his career might not have been enough for him to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, it was still a good one.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is important to us that the

The University of Iowa has already announced its intention to retire the #22 of Caitlin Clark.

This is an incredible achievement for Clark, whose career just concluded, and it places her in rarified air.  Few organizations and institutions seldom make an announcement like this after a player leaves, and it can’t be argued that Clark deserves to be in this group.

Clark, who will presumably be the first overall pick by the Indiana Fever this draft, set the NCAA record for Points (3,951) and carried the Hawkeyes on her back to two straight Finals.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Caitlin Clark for this impending honor.

1959 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you to all of you who have participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted as if the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the first 14 years thus far.

For “1958,” a Preliminary Vote with close to 130 players whose playing career ended by 1952. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters will be asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

Please note that a significant change occurred “years ago”, allowing voters to submit less than the allotted spots. 

31 Votes took place

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates they have been removed from future ballots

This is for the “Senior Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

In the special vote, modern candidates are removed if they have no votes on years 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18.

We will post the 1958 Finalists of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project results next Saturday.

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!