Baltimore Orioles slugger, Chris Davis, announced his retirement today, citing issues with his hip.  He last played in this year’s spring training opener.

Davis first reached the Majors with the Texas Rangers in 2008 but was traded to Baltimore during the 2011 Season.  After blasting 33 Home Runs in 2012, Davis exploded with league-leading 53 Home Runs and 138 RBIs.  An All-Star that season, Davis finished third in MV voting and was also a Silver Slugger.  Davis again won the Home Run Title in 2015 with 47 taters.

As prolific as Davis was with the long ball, he was Strikeout prone (1,852 over his career), and his Batting Average began to plummet in recent years.  He batted well under .200 in his last three seasons and he set the record for the most consecutive hitless at bats with 54.  

He is eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2025, though he is unlikely to get in.  We do think he will enter the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame one day.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish the best to Chris Davis in his post-playing career.

The world of hockey lost one of the best Goalies of all-time, as it was revealed that Tony Esposito passed away at the age of 78 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The younger brother of Phil Esposito, Tony Esposito first made the NHL as a member of the Montreal Canadiens in 1968/69 where he appeared in 13 Games.  The Chicago Blackhawks claimed the pioneer of the butterfly style the following year in the Intra-League Draft, and the Windy City would be the last professional stop of his career.

Esposito won the Calder in 1960-70, as well as his first Vezina, of which he won two more in the following four seasons.  A dominating backstop, Esposito led the NHL in Saves five times, Save Percentage twice and Shutouts three times.  

Internationally, Esposito represented Canada in the winning 1972 Summit Series and 1977 Canada Cup, and the United States in the 1981 Canada Cup.  

Considered one of the great ambassadors in Chicago hockey, Esposito was beloved by the community and his peers.  A six-time All-Star, Esposito’s number 35 was retired by the team.

Esposito was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, friends and family of Tony Esposito.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021-22 revision of our top 50 Cleveland Cavaliers.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note, that this is our first revision in two years, though little has changed.

As always, we present our top five immediately, though nothing has changed in this upper-tier.

1. LeBron James

2. Mark Price

3. Brad Daugherty

4. Zydrunas Ilgauskas

5. Larry Nance

You can find the entire list here.

Kevin Love, moved up one spot to #9..

Notably, Collin Sexton, almost made the list, but his horrible defense kept him from making our top fifty.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

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 news to us that Larry Tannenbaum, the Chairman of the Toronto Raptors, announced that Kyle Lowry will eventually have his number 7 retired by the team.

In an interview with the Athletic, Tannenbaum had this to say about Lowry, who signed with Miami this offseason:

"He will retire as a Raptor and his number will absolutely go up there. The honor will be the first one [for the Raptors] and I love Kyle. I love his leadership. I love his intelligence. I love his passion. I truly love Kyle... When he made the decision [to leave Toronto and join the Heat], he called me and we talked about it and I was so happy for him because I know one day he's going to come back."  

This is of course, tentative, and we look forward to reporting when this is official, and when his Lowry’s name is hung from the rafters of the Air Canada Center.  

In our recent revision of our all-time Top 50 Toronto Raptors, Lowry moved up to number one.

We would like to congratulate Kyle Lowry for this impeding honor.