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2013 Hall of Fame

No Players Elected for First Time Since 1996

Name Votes (Pct.) Yrs on ballot
Craig Biggio 388 (68.2%) 1
Jack Morris 385 (67.7%) 14
Jeff Bagwell 339 (59.6%) 3
Mike Piazza 329 (57.8%) 1
Tim Raines 297 (52.2%) 6
Lee Smith 272 (47.8%) 11
Curt Schilling 221 (38.8%) 1
Roger Clemens 214 (37.6%) 1
Barry Bonds 206 (36.2%) 1
Edgar Martinez 204 (35.9%) 4
Alan Trammell 191 (33.6%) 12
Larry Walker 123 (21.6%) 3
Fred McGriff 118 (20.7%) 4
Dale Murphy 106 (18.6%) 15
Mark McGwire 96 (16.9%) 7
Don Mattingly 75 (13.2%) 13
Sammy Sosa 71 (12.5%) 1
Rafael Palmeiro 50 (8.8%) 3
Bernie Williams 19 (3.3%) 2
Kenny Lofton 18 (3.2%) 1
Sandy Alomar Jr. 16 (2.8%) 1
Julio Franco 6 (1.1%) 1
David Wells 5 (0.9%) 1
Steve Finley 4 (0.7%) 1
Shawn Green 2 (0.4%) 1
Aaron Sele 1 (0.2%) 1
Jeff Cirillo 0 (0%) 1
Royce Clayton 0 (0%) 1
Jeff Conine 0 (0%) 1
Roberto Hernandez 0 (0%) 1
Ryan Klesko 0 (0%) 1
Jose Mesa 0 (0%) 1
Reggie Sanders 0 (0%) 1
Mike Stanton 0 (0%) 1
Todd Walker 0 (0%) 1
Rondell White 0 (0%) 1
Woody Williams 0 (0%) 1


A winning candidate did not emerge from the Hall of Fame balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and verified by Ernst & Young. There were 569 ballots cast, the third highest total in the history of the voting, but none of the 37 candidates in the 2013 vote gained mention on the required 75 percent for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Craig Biggio, who totaled 3,060 hits and was a seven-time All-Star while playing three positions (catcher, second base, outfield), topped the ballot with 388 votes – 39 shy of the 427 needed for election. His total reflected 68.2 percent of the electorate, which consists of BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years of Major League Baseball coverage. Five blank ballots were among those submitted. Other players named on more than half the ballots were pitcher Jack Morris with 385 (67.7 percent), first baseman Jeff Bagwell with 339 (59.6), catcher Mike Piazza with 329 (57.8) and outfielder Tim Raines with 297 (52.2).

Commenting on the election, Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson said, “The standards for earning election to the Hall of Fame have been very high ever since the rules were created in 1936. We realize the challenges voters are faced with in this era. The Hall of Fame has always entrusted the exclusive voting privilege to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. We remain pleased with their role in evaluating candidates based on the criteria we provide.”

This is the eighth election by the BBWAA that did not produce a Hall of Famer and the first since 1996. That year, the top three vote getters were Phil Niekro (68.3), Tony Perez (65.7) and Don Sutton (63.8). All were subsequently elected; Niekro in 1997, Sutton in 1998 and Perez in 2000. The other BBWAA elections without a winner were in 1945, 1946, 1950, 1958, 1960 and 1971.

Biggio and Piazza were each on the ballot for the first time, Morris for the 14th year, Bagwell the third and Raines the sixth. Players remain on the ballot for up to 15 years provided they receive five percent of the vote in any year. There were 19 candidates who failed to make the cut this year (29 votes) – 18 of the 24 players who were on the ballot for the first time, plus outfielder Bernie Williams, who was on the ballot for the second time. First-year candidates who received sufficient support to remain in addition to Biggio and Piazza were pitchers Curt Schilling and Roger Clemens and outfielders Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa. Outfielder Dale Murphy, in his 15th and final year on the ballot, received 106 votes (18.6).

Other holdovers that will remain on the ballot in addition to Biggio, Morris, Bagwell, Piazza and Raines are first basemen Mark McGwire, Fred McGriff, Don Mattingly and Rafael Palmeiro; pitcher Lee Smith; shortstop Alan Trammell; designated hitter-third baseman Edgar Martinez and outfielder Larry Walker.

As part of the Induction Weekend ceremony Sunday, July 28, at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., in which three Pre-Integration Committee electees – umpire Hank O’Day, New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and 19th-century player Deacon White – will be inducted, the Hall of Fame will recognize 12 individuals previously counted among its roster of members who never had a formal induction due to wartime restrictions. They are BBWAA electees Lou Gehrig (1939) and Rogers Hornsby (1942), along with the entire class of 1945 selected by the Committee on Old Timers: Roger Bresnahan, Dan Brouthers, Fred Clarke, Jimmy Collins, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Hughie Jennings, King Kelly, Jim O’Rourke and Wilbert Robinson. Paul Hagen, the J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner for baseball writing, and the late Tom Cheek, the Ford C. Frick Award winner for broadcasting, will be honored during the Awards Presentation Saturday, July 27, at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown.

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To be fair, who would they elect?

Biggio is good but the BBWAA is never going to vote him in 1st ballot because BBWAA is a bunch of crusty old men who believe in myths and dragons and bullshit. BBWAA is never going to vote in the big names of this class.
 
Not shocking.

I had Biggio at about 60-63 percent.

68 is strong, and leads me to believe he gets in eventually.

Jack Morris has no business in the Hall, Schilling maybe but he's such a dickhead I can't root for him.

Nobody else gets in IMO.
 
To be fair, who would they elect?

Biggio is good but the BBWAA is never going to vote him in 1st ballot because BBWAA is a bunch of crusty old men who believe in myths and dragons and bullshit. BBWAA is never going to vote in the big names of this class.

Truth
 
Jack Morris has no business in the Hall

This should be one of Martin Luther's Thesis.

And then he should nail it to the door of every media personality in every market.

"Oh, but he was such a good big game pitcher!" Yeah? Well so was Chad Ogea, should we put him in the HOF too?
 
Whoever voted for Aaron Sele should have their vote taken away. Clearly the vote was because they are friends with the dude. C'mon he was an allstar twice, highest finish in the cy young was 5th and has a career 4.61 era.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seleaa01.shtml

Also, what the hell was Ryan Klesco's name doing on there?
 
Because of their low "scores", Lofton and Sandy can no longer be voted in.
 
Sandy and Lofton weren't HOF'ers anyway. Not even close.
 
Sandy and Lofton weren't HOF'ers anyway. Not even close.

Take a closer look at Lofton's numbers, specifically his WAR (104th All-Time) and you can make a better case for him than some of the guys above him on the current ballot.

Very underrated and one of the top 10 center fielders of All-Time.

BUT, his game is not as well respected by Hall of Fame voters and most likely in my lifetime it never will be.

He's certainly a better option than Jack Morris, with a career 3.90 ERA, two 20-win seasons 11 years apart. Five All-Star appearances (Lofton-6) and 145th ranked pitcher WAR.

He had a 3.80 ERA in the post-season which is mediocre and the whole reason he's even involved in the discussion at this point. It's a joke, really.
 
Hey now...I'm gonna rather enjoy the highlight of the HoF be trying to explain to the world that Deacon White was one of the last living people who legitimately believed the earth was flat

According to Lee Allen's "The National League Story," the good Deacon tried to convince his teammates of the world's flatness using the impeccable logic that the world obviously doesn't move because, if it did, how could an outfielder catch a fly ball?
 
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Remember when Dale Murphy wasn't a hall of famer?

Good times.
 
Only core member of those 90s Indians teams even close to HOF material is Vizquel.

The player that's 7th in all time home runs that's never been linked to steroids isn't? o_O
 
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The player that's 7th in all time home runs that's never been linked to steroids isn't? o_O

Key words there. I'm not saying that Thome was in fact juicing, but given the era and the prevalence of the stuff I think the voters will focus a skeptical eye on his accomplishments. I think that skepticism will be enough to keep him out of the HOF for a very long time. But I do stand corrected - his numbers do appear to make him Hallworthy, if one assumes he was one of the few power hitters from his era that wasn't PEDing it.
 
Key words there. I'm not saying that Thome was in fact juicing, but given the era and the prevalence of the stuff I think the voters will focus a skeptical eye on his accomplishments. I think that skepticism will be enough to keep him out of the HOF for a very long time. But I do stand corrected - his numbers do appear to make him Hallworthy, if one assumes he was one of the few power hitters from his era that wasn't PEDing it.

Thome got his power from baling hay not PED's.
 

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