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On his conference call Wednesday, Blyleven cited one of them by name: Rich Lederer, who writes at the blog BaseballAnalysts.com, and who took up Blyleven's Hall-of-Fame cause seven years ago.
His long, frustrating Hall of Fame wait over, Blyleven takes high road Dave Sheinin 2011
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Blyleven's career stats have gotten a boost in recent years by sabermetricians who have new ways to evaluate baseball numbers.
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The election of Blyleven, 59, represents a victory of sorts for baseball's increasingly influential sabermetrics community -- a cadre of bloggers, journalists and numbers-crunchers for whom Blyleven's continued omission from Cooperstown became a cause celebre in recent years, and one that apparently gained significant traction among voters.
Alomar, Blyleven elected to Baseball Hall of Fame Dave Sheinin 2011
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Getty Images Bronson Arroyo #61 of the Cincinnati Reds Arroyo has given up 44 home runs, six shy of Bert Blyleven's major-league record for homers allowed in a season.
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Blyleven's career stats have gotten a boost in recent years by sabermetricians who have new ways to evaluate baseball numbers.
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More than anyone else, Lederer is responsible for educating voters about Blyleven's career.
His long, frustrating Hall of Fame wait over, Blyleven takes high road Dave Sheinin 2011
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But there were also advanced metrics, such as WAR and ERA+, that placed Blyleven's career in a different light.
His long, frustrating Hall of Fame wait over, Blyleven takes high road Dave Sheinin 2011
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In fact, once adjusted for number of batters faced, Blyleven's season doesn't even rank as one of the most home-run prone in history.
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Alomar is one of the greatest second basemen to ever play the game, and Richard Lederer has spent so much time and effort convincing us of Blyleven's greatness that I'm tempted to kick Christy Mathewson out of the Hall if it means getting Bert in.
Jonah Keri: Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and Being an Expos Fan 2010
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Andre Dawson (65.9%) and pitcher Bert Blyleven (61.9%) were next, as Blyleven's percentage jumped from 48% in 2007.
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