Welcome to The Afternoon Drive, where the sports staff of the Times Free Press will give you a dose of (random) sports-related information that will hopefully get you thinking about more than just what’s for dinner. This information will be packed into an online list form each weekday, but the opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff as a whole.
Today’s list
The next class of Baseball Hall of Fame inductees is announced this evening. Veteran baseball fan Lindsey Young gives his list of players he’d like to see enshrined, starting with a couple of Braves.
1. Andruw Jones
This is, of course, assuming the former Braves’ center fielder falls short again tonight, with results of known ballots showing he had gotten roughly 67% of votes (75% is required). I don’t care about how he fell off statistically after he reached 30, with Andruw you know if you know, right? He was the Ozzie Smith of the outfield, manning one of the most important positions and winning 10 Gold Gloves. He’s one of only four players all time with 10 Gold Gloves and 400-plus homers. The others? Willie Mays, Mike Schmidt and Ken Griffey Jr. C’mon people, this is easy.