The Raines Delay

From The Rogue's Baseball Index

The Raines Delay is a phenomenon in which a player who is eligible for the Hall of Fame does not get voted in, despite the uproar of sabermetrically inclined bloggers and Joe Posnanski. The old school Hall of Fame voters like The George Will are too busy watching Ken Burns' Baseball and charting batting averages into their ledgers in pencil to realize the value of these on base wizards and strikeout masters.

The Raines Delay is the time that it takes for the sabermetricians to gain ground. Typically this time period corresponds to the time it takes the traditional thinkers to forget how un-Hall of Fame-like the player in question seemed during his actual career.

Examples:

• Burt Blyleven
• Edgar Martinez
• Tim Raines