2015 Baseball HOF ballot released

He left Carlos Delgado completely off his 2003 ballot.

 

Because cards in the clubhouse!

http://www.trentonian.com/article/TT/20090723/SPORTS/307239989

 

Well, I'm just shocked to see yet another example of a voter using his ballot to punish a former player when he clearly knows the guy belongs in the Hall of Fame.

 

LeBatard is the only one I know of. You can basically do whatever you want and they don't take it away.

 

Bagwell is on the waiting list because his votes aren't increasing enough. Piazza, Raines and Schilling all went up by seven percent or more. Bagwell barely moved two percent.

Piazza is almost a lock to go in with Griffey in 2016. Trevor Hoffman's the wild card but it will probably just be the two. Raines is going to get a big push over the next two years because 2017 is his last ballot. I think he is going to jump Bagwell in 2016 to be the top returner in 2017 and will probably go in then because the steroid issue will surround both Manny and Pudge and Vlad isn't a lock first-ballot guy.

Then you get to 2018, when Chipper and Thome are first-timers. Maybe Pudge too if he doesn't get in for 2017. By this time, Bagwell has three shots left and I don't think he gets in on No. 8.
So go to 2019. Rivera is getting in and then it becomes who is left -- Halladay as a first-ballot guy? Did Thome not get in on the first ballot? Is Pudge is on the ballot? Hoffman?

The forecast for Bagwell is either 2019 in his ninth try or at worst, 2020 when Jeter is the main guy. If Ichiro can't get a job, he'd join him.

Bagwell's best path is either for the 12-player ballot rule to take hold or for Griffey, Piazza and Hoffman to go in next year; Raines and Pudge to go in 2017 and have Bagwell get between 65-70 percent. If he's not there, he's not going to gain enough traction before his time runs out.

 

I think Hoffman goes in next season. Just a hunch.

 

They took his HOF vote away? I'd love to hear the details if someone has a link or knows the story.

 

He gave his vote to Deadspin. Old news.

http://deadspin.com/revealed-the-hall-of-fame-voter-who-turned-his-ballot-1496558341

 

Short memory. That's right.

 

I disagree. Don't see him as first ballot with Mariano on the horizon. He will get in, but not for a few more years.

 

If he deserves to get in he desrves to get in. What does Mariano have to do with it?

 

JC, I totally agree, but as this election showed, many voters don't use logic.

I think there are many out there who want slobber all over Riviera and make him the next first-ballot reliever and they may feel putting Hoffman in first steals some of that luster.