2019 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot

On deadline day:

With 137 ballots recorded (there were 422 last year, so that is 32.4 percent of that total):

100 -- Rivera
94.9 -- Halladay
91.2 -- Edgar (plus 12, was 20 votes shy)
83.2 -- Mussina (plus 12, was 49 votes shy)
75.2 -- Clemens (plus 2, was 75 votes shy)
74.5 -- Bonds (plus 2, was 79 votes shy)
73 -- Schilling (plus 8, was 101 votes shy)
65.7 -- Walker (plus 26)
36.5 -- Vizquel (plus 14)
34.3 -- McGriff (plus 22)
27.7 -- Manny (minus 2)
19 -- Helton and Rolen (plus 10)
Everyone else under 15 percent, Wagner is at 14.6 (plus 8) and Pettitte as a first-timer at 8
Of note: Michael Young 3 votes, Oswalt and Berkman 2 votes, Tejada and Polanco 1 vote

 

Who votes for Clemens but not bonds? Did someone publicly explain that?

 

So rivera, halladay and Edgar are in. Mussina is close? Odds? Like 65 percent chance that he gets in?

 

The four people who did have made it known in the past. It's essentnially parsing their conduct

 

Mussina isn't that close. he still needs 17 flips to crack 70 percent. If he gets that far it's a good sign for next year. He's 50-50 right now with percentage dropping against him. At his current pace he's still about 15 votes shy and the non-revealers don't like him at all

 

Fun piece on an all cardinals HOF snub team:

Cardinals would win a lot of games with players snubbed by Hall of Fame

I would probably sub in Ray Lankford for Coleman

 

Curt Flood

 

With owners on the Veterans Committee, Flood is never getting a sniff of HOF consideration. Same with Marvin Miller.

 

which is why he belongs on the snub team

 

yep

 

Payback for Dizzy Dean getting HIS pals in back when.

 

3 minutes of thought, and it’s much better than that team, includes pitchers, and doesn’t include fake Yankees like Damon or Clemens.

Posada
Mattingly
Randolph
Nettles
Arod (cheating a bit)
Charlie keller
Bernie
O’neil
Pettitte
Cone
guidry
Stottlemyre
lyle