OK boys, it's baseball HOF ballot time of year!!!

[Manch.]

Who do you vote for, and who do you think gets in?


Here are the first-time eligible players, in alphabetical order:
Rich Aurillia
Aaron Boone
Tony Clark
Carlos Delgado
Jermaine Dye
Darin Erstad
Cliff Floyd
Nomar Garciaparra
Brian Giles
Tom Gordon
Eddie Guardado
Randy Johnson ✔
Pedro Martinez ✔
Troy Percival
Jason Schmidt
Gary Sheffield
John Smoltz ✔
Now, here are the holdovers, listed in order of the percentage of the vote they received last year.
Craig Biggio, 74.8 ✔
Mike Piazza, 62.2
Jeff Bagwell, 54.3
Tim Raines, 46.1
Roger Clemens, 35.4
Barry Bonds, 34.7
Lee Smith, 29.9 ✔
Curt Schilling, 29.2 ✔
Edgar Martinez, 25.2
Alan Trammell, 20.8
Mike Mussina, 20.3
Jeff Kent, 15.2
Fred McGriff, 11.7
Mark McGwire, 11
Larry Walker, 10.2
Don Mattingly, 8.2
Sammy Sosa, 7.2



This post was edited on 11/25 2:01 AM by Manch.

 

[Manch.]

My votes are checked off and I will add commentary and also guess who gets in when I have more time.

 

[seminoleed]

Smoltz for sure, to complete the troika.

 

[NY_22_Nole]

Agree with your checked choices - I would add Garciaparra, Piazza, Bagwell, Raines, Edgar Martinez and Mattingly. I assume you are leaving some of those names off because of PED's (McGwife, Bonds, etc.)- I would agree on those also.

 

[NoleMoreTears]

Never understood leaving off the "supposed" PED guys.

1. They are the best of their generation - that's still the simplest definition of HOF
2. PEDs have been around forever - more potent ones in the late 90's sure, but nobody seemed to bother about Mike Schmidt's greenies
3. If almost everyone was using, as some players suggested, then the playing field is actually somewhat level.
4. Several of these players were well on their way to HOF before using.

I can't stand Barry Bonds but he deserves entry. Ditto for Clemens and McGwire.

For the current crop I like Smoltz obviously, and Pedro and Randy.

I'll be curious to see how ever-ready Eddie does. He was incredibly underrated.

 

[DFSNOLE]

I agree with those you checked but would add Piazza and Raines.
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[Nolebra Kai]

Pedro Martinez
Randy Johnson
John Smoltz
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Mike Piazza