Bryce Whitlow has worked as a paraeducator in Sunapee for two years, but outside of his day job, he’s the man behind a social media page called “MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good” that has taken online baseball media by storm.

Whitlow, 23, started the page from zero. He thought that, maybe, if he was lucky, 500 people would enjoy the content he created, highlighting players who had solid Major League Baseball careers but would not make it into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Now, his page on Instagram @mlbhallofgood sits at around 129,000 followers. In large part it’s thanks to MLB players taking notice, sharing his content and graciously, or hilariously, accepting their inductions into the Hall of (Pretty) Good.

“There are plenty of guys who spent 10 years in baseball, made an All-Star team and hit 100 home runs or something. They don’t get talked about anymore. And so I just wanted to create a place where we could talk about them all the time,” Whitlow said.

To make it into the Hall of (Pretty) Good, a player has to be within a certain range of statistical measures without winning a Cy Young or an MVP award, have retired from the sport and has received 65% of the vote in an online poll by the followers of Whitlow’s page.

One key statistic is the player having under 35 Wins Above Replacement, a stat often shorthanded to WAR, that quantifies a player’s value and overall contribution to their team compared to a hypothetical average. It means that a player has to have been better than average, but not too great — just pretty good.

“I’ve always loved obscure or underappreciated baseball players,” Whitlow explained. “I’ve always appreciated the star guys. But growing up, I always wanted to buy the jersey or the baseball card of a guy who I thought was underappreciated, and so this was created as a way to show them some love.”

The most recent inductee, with 96% of 40,945 votes, is Shane Victorino. “The Flyin’ Hawaiian” is well-regarded and fondly remembered by Boston Red Sox fans for his contributions to the 2013 World Series-winning team and had a huge grand slam to send the team past the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS.

Victorino was part of an iconic squad of bearded Red Sox players, who were the antithesis of the clean-shaven New York Yankees and had a gritty nature.

Whitlow said that a large part of his following are young men like him, between 18 and 24 years old, who are nostalgic for the players from the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s that they grew up watching.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

After receiving 96% of 40,945 votes, Shane Victorino has officially been elected to the Hall of Pretty Good! pic.twitter.com/pDXLclPvDA

— MLB Hall of Pretty Good (@hallofgoodpod) June 30, 2025

Another Red Sox player in the Hall is Jackie Bradley Jr., who was part of the 2018 Red Sox championship team and whose memory feeds into that same nostalgia of players that fans fell in love with for not just their baseball but character and personality.

For now, Whitlow will continue looking for hidden gems from all 30 MLB teams, players who may have been forgotten in the statistical records but are still vividly remembered by baseball fans for their consistently pretty good careers.

Whitlow posts on social media nearly every day, highlighting new possible nominees and sharing bits of baseball history. He runs a podcast of the same name, where he delves in-depth into the nominations and shares different stories about notable players.

Former players and larger media outlets have started picking up on nominations and inductions, celebrating the accomplishments of dozens of retired players, and poking fun at the strict nature of the regular Hall of Fame. All in all, the page has drummed up conversations that were previously relegated to niche online forums and brought some casual fun back into the online baseball landscape.

“I think it’s just a place where you can be fun and just be nostalgic about your favorite players. I know the Hall of Fame people get really uptight and argumentative about it, and that’s not really what I want this to be. I just want it to be a fun thing,” Whitlow added.

On June 18, he threw out the first pitch at a New Hampshire Fisher Cats game, but his journey to step on the mound at the Toronto Blue Jays’ Double-A affiliate has been a long time coming.

A portion of the ticket sales from that night went to Mary’s Food For Thought, a charity that provides meals to families in need in Sunapee, particularly during the summer.

Whitlow does not plan on stopping anytime soon and will continue pushing his page forward to foster a space for baseball nerds to geek out in online spaces.