Wanted to see Rose get in while he was alive but hope he gets voted in but I’m knot sure how the veteran committee will treat him. I think Shoeless Joe definitely gets in.
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Managers (as Pete was at the time) decide to throw individual games in order to rest their players to potentially increase the odds of winning the overall series(5 to 7 games) against another team.
Baseball players work for a living, they play almost everyday, so they don't have enough time to rest between games.
The whole calculus behind it is complex and requires much experience, so the below example is mostly talking out of my ass, as I also am more outside baseball.
So the idea is, if you anticipate your opponent fielding their best pitcher, you might want to field your worse pitcher and tell your players not to play too hard so they can rest to play as hard as possible for the rest of the series.
Personally, as a casual fan, I would be highly annoyed to pay good money for a game, only to see my team basically throw it. The only inside-baseball fan I have known in meatspace was a season ticket holder, and that probably has a lot more to do with why they like it.
Betting to win on a game might make you try to win a game you could have used to increase the odds of winning the whole series. A bit like a long distance runner making a bet that they will have the best time on lap 2, but exhausting themselves on that lap so hard they get last place overall in the whole race.
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation.