January 24, 2018-
Today the Baseball Writers' Association of America released their vote for the MLB Hall of Fame. Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman will be enshrined into the baseball hall of fame. Needing 317 votes out of the 422 ballots first time ballot members Jones (97.2%) and Thome (89.8) easily made the hall. On the ballot for the second time Vladimir Guerrero (92.9) also was an easy vote for the hall. Trevor Hoffman at (79.9) was on the ballot for the third time. With both Jones and Thome being voted in we now have 54 first time ballot hall of fame players. Falling short again for the ninth time Edgar Martinez of the Mariners was 20 votes shy this year and next year will be his last year of eligibility.
Name Vote (pct) #ballot
Chipper Jones 410 (97.2) 1
Vladimir Guerrero 392 (92.9) 2
Jim Thome 379 (89.8) 1
Trevor Hoffman 337 (79.9) 3
Edgar Martinez 297 (70.4) 9
Mike Mussina 268 (63.5) 5
Roger Clemens 242 (57.3) 6
Barry Bonds 238 (56.4) 6
Curt Schilling 216 (51.2) 6
Omar Vizquel 156 (37.0) 1
Larry Walker 144 (34.1) 8
Fred McGriff 98 (23.2) 9
Manny Ramirez 93 (22.0) 2
Jeff Kent 61 (14.5) 5
Gary Sheffield 47 (11.1) 4
Billy Wagner 47 (11.1) 2
Scott Rolen 43 (10.2) 1
Sammy Sosa 33 (7.8) 6
Andruw Jones 31 (7.3) 1
Jamie Moyer 10 (2.4) 1
Johan Santana 10 (2.4 ) 1
Johnny Damon 8 (1.9) 1
Hideki Matsui 4 (0.9) 1
Chris Carpenter 2 (0.5) 1
Kerry Wood 2 (0.5) 1
Livan Hernandez 1 (0.2) 1
Carlos Lee 1 (0.2) 1
Orlando Hudson 0 1
Aubrey Huff 0 1
Jason Isringhausen 0 1
Brad Lidge 0 1
Kevin Millwood 0 1
Carlos Zambrano 0 1
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