One (or More) of These Players Could Be Voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame

When the announcement is made at 05:00 PM CST on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, to let the world know who has been inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, I will be at home, again, getting ready to transition from one job to the next. But I'll still have the MLB Network on to watch the results live.

With any luck, more than one person on this list of 35 players will be rewarded with the ultimate honor...enshrinement into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. For the final time, here is the list of players (with years on ballot and % of ballots in the 2017 election) being considered:

• Rick Ankiel
• Jason Bay
• Lance Berkman
• Barry Bonds, 7th, 56.4%
• Roger Clemens, 7th, 57.3%
• Freddy Garcia
• Jon Garland
• Travis Hafner
• Roy Halladay
• Todd Helton
• Andruw Jones, 2nd, 7.3%
• Jeff Kent, 6th, 14.5%
• Ted Lilly
• Derek Lowe
• Edgar Martinez, 10th, 70.4%
• Fred McGriff, 10th, 23.2%
• Mike Mussina, 6th, 63.5%
• Darren Oliver
• Roy Oswalt
• Andy Pettitte
• Juan Pierre
• Placido Polanco
• Manny Ramirez, 3rd, 22.0%
• Mariano Rivera
• Scott Rolen, 2nd, 10.2%
• Curt Schilling, 7th, 51.2%
• Gary Sheffield, 5th, 11.1%
• Sammy Sosa, 7th, 7.8%
• Miguel Tejada
• Omar Vizquel, 2nd, 37.0%
• Billy Wagner, 3nd, 10.2%
• Larry Walker, 9th, 34.1%
• Vernon Wells
• Kevin Youkilis
• Michael Young

Until the announcement is made (and I WILL be home when this happens), only the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the accounting firm that tabulated the votes knows who will join Lee Smith and Harold Baines in Cooperstown on Sunday, July 21, 2019.

Good luck to everyone.

Sincerely,

ayBee Anama