Edgar Martinez is finally a Hall of Famer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It has been 5,224 days since Edgar Martinez walked to the plate for the final time, the crowd of 45,658 at Safeco Field that afternoon singing the familiar “Edddd-gar, Edddd-gar” chant. Finally, the greatness of what he accomplished in the 8,674 times he stepped in the batter’s box has been acknowledged. The phone call has come with Cooperstown on the other end. A spot in the Plaque Gallery has been secured.

Edgar Martinez is a Hall of Famer.

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On the ballot for the 10th and final time, Edgar received 85.4 percent of the vote – 363 votes out of 425 ballots – far exceeding the required 75 percent needed from members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America for entrance to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Edgar can now put behind him the disappointment that he has dealt with on this day each of the previous nine years. The expressed optimism of the past few years has come to fruition and Edgar now begins his pre-induction journey that will culminate at Hall of Fame Weekend in upstate New York this July.

Ten years after the street which runs alongside the ballpark he called home was given his name, Edgar will join the man whose statue looks out over that street as the only players to go into the Hall of Fame wearing a Mariners cap. For Ken Griffey Jr., admittance to Cooperstown was swift, the vote just three votes shy of unanimous in his first year on the ballot. For Edgar, it was a climb with an almost unheard-of summit.

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[RainCaster]

1. Yayyyyyyy!

That took far too long, Edgar is a great guy and deserved this long ago.

[El Supremo]

2. And the GROAT only got about 16%.

That's The Greatest Rocky Of All Time, Todd Helton.

Oh well, he'll make it later.

[JDC]

5. He'll get in.

When I think of some of the truly greats that went through, they have had some unbelievable talent play there. In that group Juan Pierre and Dexter Fowler top my list of the best players to wear the uniform at Coors field. And that includes Holliday and Walker.

[mrs_p]

3. He is my favorite ball player

I even have a painting of him we bought off the streets of Seattle. Got it framed. Only few people in my circle outside of home (western WA) have even known who he is. I am so happy for him.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Thanks for posting that!

I don't hear a lot about Mariners baseball on the east coast, and especially not in the off-season. I lived near Seattle in the glory years, when we had Edgar, Tino Martinez, Jay Buhner, Randy Johnson, and Ken Griffey, Jr. and got to see them play in person.

Edgar is a class act, and I'm glad to see him get the honor that he so richly deserves!