Joe DiMaggio

What hat will Jason Heyward wear when he's elected to the baseball Hall of Fame?

If there's anything I've learned from this group, it's that when a rookie starts out the season with a great couple weeks, he will make the Hall of Fame. So what hat will Heyward wear on his HOF plaque, Braves or Yankees?

Public Comments

1. Braves. No question.
2. Definitely Yankees. New York will sign him to the first Billion dollar contract as soon as he becomes a free agent.
3. Braves. And I know you are being facetious but you must admit he does look really good right now. He certainly doesn't play like your typical rookie. I watched quite a few Braves games so far and he looks really good.
4. I think the Braves. Nelson Cruz is leading the league in homeruns and RBI's a few weeks into the season, so he's probably going to win the MVP. Oh, and what hat do you think Steven Strasburg and Bryce Harper are going to where into the Hall?
5. It's still the first part of the season and he still could tank, although I do not wish this upon him. That being said, if he does as well as he has been, the Yankees will be looking for him, of course. Their payroll only supports the best. But, if Heyward has any morals, or thanking to the team that had faith in him first, I would hope he would stay with the Braves. I'm so tired of seeing guys start out with a team, only to end up on the Yankees. My team, the Tamp Bay Rays, will have two free agents at the end of the year, Crawford and Pena, so let's see which of the two goes to the Yankees. Come on, there has to be at least one of them doing so, right? Baseball is sometimes warped only because of the Yankees. It's much like politics.
6. Huh? Tons of guys have had a great half in their rookie year or even a great rookie season then gone one to do nothing special the rest of their careers. First they have to adapt. A rookie comes up and they are an unknown quanity. So they get fed cheap fastballs. Then when they do enough damage pitchers start studying them. Weaknesses are found and unless the player can adapt to changes in how they are being pitched they will fade heavily. Then if they can survive and adapt they have to not fall for their own press clippings. Too many players quit working so hard after they get a fat contract, some before that. It takes increadible amounts of effort and work to be good enough to play in hte majors and even more to star there. The work ethic has to be embedded deep in a player for them to have long term success. Then they have to not be seriously injured. Injuries have destroyed many promising careers and cut short some of the greatest's careers. Micky Mantle and Ken Griffy Jr are great examples ofof careers cut short by injury. Last in modern baseball they have to not price themselves out of the market. It is way way way too early to call Heyward a star much less a HOFer. If we see 3 good years out of him in his first 4 then it's time to think about it a little but until a player ha 210+ years under their belt it's generally a bad idea to even consider it. It's all moot anyway. Until there is real PED enforcement nobody playing today will remain in the hall if elected unless it's a special PED era section. For every PED user like Bonds, A-Rod, McGwire and Sosa we know of. there are three others who didn't get caught. 50 yrs from now how is anybody going to sort the PED from the non-PED users?
7. Don't get too ahead of yourself
8. Lol, good one. In serious note, the real answer will come up in ten years since we can't be sure as of now. It's way too early to tell.
9. calm down there
10. ha ha, im going out on a limb here & say that the Pirates sign him to a 15 year deal for $350 million & he leads them to 10 straight world series sweeps!
11. Can he complete a full year, hell a full month in the majors before were calling him a HOF'er
12. He will wear either a Fireman's hat or a police hat. The Atlanta Fire Department will make him honorary Fire Chief after he saves 100 orphans from a burning building. And the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will make him an honorary member after he solves the Ben Roethlisberger case in his spare time. He will be the biggest hero in the history of the State of Georgia. It obviously does not matter what he does on the baseball field. Everyone's already talked about all the great baseball feats he hasn't yet accomplished. So I say we should spend more time talking about all of the non-baseball things he'll do. Maybe he'll start his own Fortune 500 company with his spare change. Or he could swim all the way to Australia and kill a shark with his bare hands. In that case, he should wear a sharkskin hat in the Hall of Fame.
13. If he's around in 5 years, one of the 2 NY teams will sign him.
14. Yankees, of course!