Hall of Fame Ballot Thoughts?

The leading lights among the 14 first-timers on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot are position players . . . Albert Belle, Will Clark, and Ozzie Guillen and pitchers . . . Orel Hershiser and Dwight Gooden. (Note: three of five are former members of the Tribe. Oh, yeah. Cleveland is the Hall of Fame City.)

The rest of the first-timers include pitchers Rick Aguilera, Alex Fernandez, Doug Jones, and John Wetteland and position players Gary DiSarcina, Gary Gaetti, Gregg Jefferies, Hal Morris, and Walt Weiss.

This is a pretty sorry set of first-timers. I mean, I like many of these players but the Hall of Fame? Walt Weiss?

Who's the best candidate among the first-timers? (Not the most likely, because I don't think any of these guys gets in, not very soon, anyway.)

Btw, the complete ballot: Aguilera, Belle, Bert Blyleven (should be in), Clark, Dave Conception (should be in), Andre Dawson (should be in . . . c'mon, he's the Hawk), DiSarcina, Fernandez, Gaetti, Steve Garvey (nope!), Gooden, Goose Gossage (should be in and would definitely get my vote), Guillen, Hershiser, Jefferies, Tommy John (not in the Hall? but he invented that surgery!), Jones, Don Mattingly (ninophile and I would both vote for Donnie Baseball), Willie McGee, Hal Morris, Jack Morris (Jack Morris is a no-brainer here, especially if he goes in as a Tiger), Dale Murphy, Dave Parker (I'd vote for Parker but he shouldn't be in), Jim Rice (a close one), Lee Smith (no!), Bruce Sutter (the most likely inductee this year), Alan Trammell (no brainer), Weiss, and Wetteland.