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Related: About this forumThe huge 2015 Hall of Fame Ballot:
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 percent
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
Results of the Hall of Fame voting will be revealed at 2 p.m. ET on Jan. 6 on MLB Network.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Dye and Biggio possible
Auggie
(31,173 posts)JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Aaron fucking Boone NEVER!!!
Auggie
(31,173 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)I'd think it would probably be a little lower than Clemens and Bonds, maybe 28%.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Tainted by Coors Field.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Johnson, Smoltz, and Sheffield. Probably Pedro, too.
Johnson seems first ballot to me. Maybe the other guys have to wait a year.