2016 Baseball Hall of Fame Nominees

41.6 percent of ballots had a full 10 names

 

I wonder how big an impact this had on the voting and the percentages?

 

It may be a needle in a haystack search, but I've narrowed the non-Griffey voters to 234 so far

 

Look at the responses to that tweet. Marc was among those whose vote was taken away this year. He hasn't covered a baseball beat since 1985. I went looking and found a couple of articles that made reference to him losing the vote as well. Also, would be odd to see just those three on his ballot. Marc always wrote in Pete Rose.

I'm curious where Spector got that. Marc now works for the Rockland County Times and he customarily wrote about his ballots there. I checked just to see if he wrote something about this year's voting and see nothing on the site.

 

Remember -- and this is no way excuses the three idiots who didn't vote for Griffey -- but their rationale is often that if Mays, Aaron, Ruth, Cobb, etc. were not unanimous choices, then making Griffey a unanimous choice would put him in some sort of higher realm. It's the same sort of asshat thinking that leads voters not to put deserving first-time candidates on their ballot.

 

As oop pointed out:

"Marc Maturo, a reporter covering New York baseball for Gannett in the 1970s and `80s, was among those who lost voting rights. He said he would have voted for Bonds, Clemens, Griffey and Raines."

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens Will Get Boost Due To Hall Of Fame Vote Changes

 

And anybody who left Griffey off for that reason should lose his or her vote.

 

It's reasonable to leave Griffey off if you thought there were 10 other HOFers on the ballot.

 

Let's see if the voters who left Griffey off even admit to it, or remain in hiding.

 

No, it's not. It's playing a damn game with the voting. If you believe someone to be a Hall of Famer, they should be on the ballot. If the inclusion of Griffey bumps your No. 10 off the bottom of the ballot, then chances are pretty fucking good that your No. 10 was not a worthy Hall of Famer anyway, and trying to keep him on the next ballot is not a good enough reason to do that.

 

Why not? I can find 11 arguably worthy players on the ballot.