Monday, January 9, 2012

Hallbound...2012!!!


Your 2012 Baseball Hall of Famer: Barry Larkin!!!
The votes are in...
  • Barry Larkin 495 (86.4%);
  • Jack Morris 382 (66.7%);
  • Jeff Bagwell 321 (56.0%);
  • Lee Smith 290 (50.6%);
  • Tim Raines 279 (48.7%);
  • Edgar Martinez 209 (36.5%);
  • Alan Trammell 211 (36.8%);
  • Fred McGriff 137 (23.9%);
  • Larry Walker 131 (22.9%);
  • Mark McGwire 112 (19.5%);
  • Don Mattingly 102 (17.8%);
  • Dale Murphy 83 (14.5%);
  • Rafael Palmeiro 72 (12.6%);
  • Bernie Williams 55 (9.6%);
  • Juan Gonzalez 23 (4.0%);
  • Vinny Castilla 6 (1.0%);
  • Tim Salmon 5 (0.9%);
  • Bill Mueller 4 (0.7%);
  • Brad Radke 2 (0.3%);
  • Javy Lopez 1 (0.2%);
  • Eric Young 1 (0.2%);
  • Jeromy Burnitz 0;
  • Brian Jordan 0;
  • Terry Mulholland 0;
  • Phil Nevin 0;
  • Ruben Sierra 0;
  • Tony Womack 0;
Congratulations to Barry Larkin for being elected into the Hall of Fame in what was third year on the ballot!!!

To get in this year, a player had to appear on 430 ballots. The players whose names are italicized will appear on next year's ballot, having surpassed the five percent rule to stay on (30 votes).

According to the Baseball Hall of Fame website, 573 ballots were cast. Nine of the ballots returned were left BLANK!!!

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama

2 comments:

hiflew said...

I am so sick of the guys with the blank ballots. It was a fine statement to make ONCE as a protest, but now they need to eliminate them as future voters.

Anonymous said...

I think a blank ballot is entirely appropriate, if you don't think there are any worthwhile candidates. I don't think I would have voted for any of these guys... I consider Larkin to be a marginal HOFer.