Buster Olney is abstaining from Hall of Fame voting

A backlog of overqualified players has resulted from voters casting their ballots on morality grounds rather than baseball merit in ways that never took place until a couple of years ago; Worse than anything, the BBWAA grants voters lifetime voting privileges, regardless of whether or not the voter covers baseball now or has for decades, resulting in an electorate filled with scores and maybe hundreds of people who know virtually nothing about the candidates they are considering. And now that set of circumstances has led one of the most knowledgable and qualified voters out there - Buster Olney of ESPN - to abstain from voting for the Hall of Fame .

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