Anthony Calamis

Adam Rubin HOF Ballot: Beltrán, Jones, Manny, A-Rod, Rollins, Utley, Wright

Ballot #4 is from Adam Rubin. Seven holdovers earn his vote once again. No adds or drops for returning candidates and no first-year candidates selected. Beltrán remains a perfect 4/4

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And just to do some math - he had 157 yes and 237 no last year. Even if there are 75 new voters all yes and 25 removed voters all no, that’s only putting him at 232/444, more than 22% away. He’ll no matter what need a seismic shift of changed minds, which doesn’t seem like a 1-year leap.

It’s not like every new voter is going to support Utley, though - he already missed the first newbie.

I think it’s basically you need to be a 100-WAR type legend if you have major PED issues and he doesn’t think Manny crosses that bar. He’s made mention of Manny in every column since ARod debuted that I can remember, and probably the 4-5 before that.

It’s small Hall, need to clear the bar by a mountain if you have PED issues

Henning has been very consistent on the ARod vs Manny distinction - he also voted for Bonds and Clemens but not Sosa or McGwire or so far Pettitte. He’s basically voting for “top-20 players ever” with PED ties but nobody else with PED ties.

Ballot 3 from Lynn Henning: Beltrán & A-Rod

Ballot #3 is from Lynn Henning. He checks his two holdovers, with no adds or first-timers. His column: www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...

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William Ladson’s HOF Ballot: Beltrán, Buehrle, Hernández, Jones, Pettitte

Ballot #2 is from William Ladson, a first-time voter. Beltrán, Jones, and Pettitte improve to 2/2 in the early going, while Félix and Buehrle grab their first vote each

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Jorge Morejón's ballot: Beltran, Jones (+1), Pettitte, K-Rod, Vizquel

Ballot #1 in the 2026 Hall of Fame voting cycle is from Jorge Morejón. Andruw Jones receives the first net gained vote of the cycle. Jones finished last year 8.8% shy of election. Morejón's column: www.martinoticias.com/a/opini%C3%B...

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Manny could be in the Andruw category too

Wainwright (1.98/2.42) and Ramírez (3.61/4.21) are actually scaled pretty well in that light as far as % of total annual shares awarded

This year there were 1770 MvP points available and unanimous would be 420, so 4.21 shares (which is 59/14, also) were awarded. Cy, 510 points were available, with 210 being unanimous, so 2.428 shares awarded

I think it mostly speaks to the number of shares available - MVP voting is 14-9-8-7-etc so 59 points for every ballot and a max of 14, more than 4 shares available. Cy is 5 spots 7-4-3-2-1 and was less in older years. 2.4~ shares available.

Sosa got 7.8% more than Pettitte in 2022, 3.3% more in 2021, 2.6% more in 2020, and Pettitte got 1.4% more in 2019. They were on the ballot together 4x and Sosa got more votes 3x.

Sosa maxed out at 18% on a ballot Pettitte got even less on. That seems important to me. McGwire was on the ballot at almost Pettitte’s 2025 levels of support for awhile until ballotgeddon happened. Those things need to be considered, IMO. It’s not a binary ballot, and voting pools change.

Manny also has DV charges, I think.

I hear this a lot, but I’m not really sure how true it is relative to Bonds and Clemens? There are some examples, sure, but it bears repeating 73% of voters didn’t vote for Pettitte last year and that 65-66% of voters DID vote for Bonds and Clemens their last year.

The 2026 Hall of Fame ballot: Bobby Abreu, Carlos Beltrán, Ryan Braun, Mark Buehrle, Shin-Soo Choo, Edwin Encarnación, Gio González, Alex Gordon, Cole Hamels, Félix Hernández, Torii Hunter, Andruw Jones, Matt Kemp, Howie Kendrick, Nick Markakis, Daniel Murphy, Dustin Pedroia, Hunter Pence, Andy Pettitte, Rick Porcello, Manny Ramírez, Álex Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Omar Vizquel, David Wright

The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago by @baseballhall.org (baseballhall.org/news/2026-bb...). Results will be announced Jan. 20th. Game on!

He is not in, actually. He’s on the ballot in the first post you’re replying to and got 39% less last year in his 7th ballot chance than Bonds’ max vote percentage.

283.3% total here, so 2.83/3 votes used/94ish% space used per person on almost 150 voters and nobody would be elected.

Thanks! I totally missed that was happening

Sacramento? Or did I miss something?

It seems very unlikely all 8 make 5 votes so in 3 years I’m hopeful they get Whitaker and Evans back in the room and there are a couple of these guys in so it’s a really fresh ballot

Flip side of that is with the new rules and future eligibility now a question rather than a given, it makes sense to litigate it now and then take a break in 3 years

Kent kind feels like he’ll get the McGriff/Lee Smith unanimous stamp.

Those are the 11 people who made the ballot. The 16 voters get announced after Thanksgiving usually

I was following when Brown debuted and there was just almost no conversation. I was bummed he got 5%’d, he has the same ERA+ and a better ERA than Schilling. If he came up now without PED ties he would eventually get in.

Freeman is only at a 142 OPS+, not that is changed a ton

Me neither but that spot came up in the 9th too (although IKF walked then got thrown out on the great Edman throw) so it could have mattered a lot in that inning

Even with Bo DH, are they gonna trust him in a 7th inning pinch running spot?