Your Hall of Fame ballot

[LHG]

What, you've never heard of Bill McGuire? He caught Randy Johnson once. Definite HOF

obxyankeefan gave it some weight but he fell short on his ballot.

 

[Stokes1931]

My list:

Bonds
Clemens
Griffey
Piazza
Bagwell
Hoffman
Mussina
Raines
Trammell
Kent

Smith is tempting, as is Wagner. I like BWags, but not first year.

How in the name of the deity is Randy Winn on this list?!?

Cannot go for Eckstein because of 2002. Grudges last a long time.

Sheff is also tempting, but not yet. Is there anyone (not named Griffey, McGwire, Sosa, Thome, ARod, Pujols or Bonds) that is in the 500 HR club that isn't in the HOF? I guess Palmeiro and Manny are in the club but not HOF. Don't think Manny is quite eligible, yet, though.

 

[calsnowskier]

Thome

 

[obxyankeefan]

obxyankeefan gave it some weight but he fell short on his ballot.

I also voted for Barnwell because of spell check.

 

[Voltaire26]

My Vote:

Trammell
Bonds
Clemens
Griffey
Bagwell
Raines
McGwire
Sosa
Hoffman

 

[LHG]

I also voted for Barnwell because of spell check.

I don't know how you could vote for Barnwell over McGuire. Barnwell never caught Randy Johnson.

 

[LHG]

With ten ballots in, it looks like voting has come to a close. Here are the final(?) results:
Bonds - 100%
Clemens - 100%
Griffey - 100%
Bagwell - 100%
Raines - 90%
Mussina - 80%
Piazza - 80%
Trammell - 60%
Kent - 60%
Schilling - 40%
McGwire - 40%
Hoffman - 40%
Sosa - 30%
Walker - 20%
Martinez - 10%
McGriff - 10%
Edmonds - 10%
No votes - Anderson, Ausmus, Castillo, Eckstein, Garciaparra, Glaus, Grudzielanek, Hampton, Kendall, Lowell, Sheffield, Smith, Sweeney, Wagner, Winn

That means 7 players would make it in the 2016 HOF class (Bonds, Clemens, Griffey, Bagwell, Raines, Mussina, Piazza) and Trammell and McGwire would join the 15 no votes received to drop off the ballot (no love for Sheffield at all?). Only 8 players would move over to 2017's ballot, joined with Manny Ramirez, Ivan Rodriguez, Vladimir Guerrero, Mike Cameron, Javier Vazquez, J.D. Drew, Jorge Posada, Magglio Ordonez, Tim Wakefield, Derrick Lee, Edgar Renteria (he gets in based on one hit, right?!), Melvin Mora, Carlos Guillen, Jason Varitek, Orlando Cabrera, Aaron Rowand, Chan Ho Park, Pat Burrell, Freddy Sanchez (even though he just retired last week), Jeff Weaver, Arthur Rhodes, Gary Matthews, Russ Ortiz, Julio Lugo, Cristian Guzman, Bob Howry, Bengie Molina, Fernando Tatis, Jose Guillen, Daenys Baez and Russ Springer. (Side note, notice how many former Giants will be on next year's ballot. Counting Bonds and Kent, I tally 10!)

While I find the idea of 7 players inducted on one ballot exciting, I think we all know that it probably be just Griffey and maybe either Raines or Piazza (or maybe both). Bagwell, Hoffman and Kent have an outside chance. With 2017 not offering much (Ramirez' career WAR is 0.1 higher than Raines but I-Rod does have a career WAR 9 points higher than Piazza; however, Guerrero is only other new player with a career WAR higher than 50 and it sits 0.9 points higher than Sosa. Ramirez has the cloud of HGH over him), it will be an interesting couple of years in the voting.