Bronx Bomber Ball

Hideki Matsui joined the Yankees at the Major League level in 2003, and for three years, he didn’t stop playing -- picking up Rookie of the Year recognition in 2003, and was voted to the All-Star team in 2003 and 2004.  Photo Credit: New York Times

Along with being Yankee enthusiasts, the staff here at the BBB is comprised of avid baseball fans across the entirety of the sport. With that being said, we decided to complete a mock Hall of Fame voting using the 2018 candidates. Similar to the official voting, our ballots could only comprise of up to ten candidates, but choosing less than ten candidates was surely an option. Any player with a mark above 75% would be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, if the voting rested in our hands. Here are the results of the sixteen ballots casted:   Photo Credit: Getty Images Name Vote Percentage Vladimir Guerrero 100 Trevor Hoffman 100 Chipper Jones 100 Edgar Martinez 87.5 Mike Mussina 87.5 Roger Clemens 75 Jim Thome 75 Barry Bonds 56.25 Curt Schilling 43.75 Larry Walker 37.5 Andruw Jones 31.25 Manny Ramirez 25 ...

The Yankees, who boast the best farm system in the league, got significantly younger this season while also seeing many veteran players traded away or retiring from the game. One such player was Mark Teixeira, who walked away from baseball after 14 seasons spent with four different teams. The first baseman was acquired by the Bombers before the 2009 season, where he would spend the last eight seasons of his Hall of Fame-caliber career. Tex had many memorable plays over the course of his 958 regular season and 36 postseason games in pinstripes. Below, I, in chronological order, will recount some of my favorite Mark Teixeira moments. Feel free to comment and tweet me any I may have missed that you will always remember! Photo Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke