Hallbound...2015!!!

The votes are in...

• Randy Johnson 534 (97.3%);
• Pedro Martinez 500 (91.1%);
• John Smoltz 455 (82.9%);
• Craig Biggio 454 (82.7%);
• Mike Piazza 384 (69.9%);
• Jeff Bagwell 306 (55.7%);
• Tim Raines 302 (55.0%);
• Curt Schilling 215 (39.2%);
• Roger Clemens 206 (37.5%);
• Barry Bonds 202 (36.8%);
• Lee Smith 166 (30.2%);
• Edgar Martinez 148 (27.0%);
• Alan Trammell 138 (25.1%);
• Mike Mussina 135 (24.6%);
• Jeff Kent 77 (14.0%);
• Fred McGriff 71 (12.9%);
• Larry Walker 65 (11.8%);
• Gary Sheffield 64 (11.7%);
• Mark McGwire 55 (10.0%);
• Don Mattingly 50 (9.1%);
• Sammy Sosa 36 (6.6%);
• Nomar Garciaparra 30 (5.5%);
• Carlos Delgado 21 (3.8%);
• Troy Percival 4 (0.7%);
• Aaron Boone 2 (0.4%);
• Tom Gordon 2 (0.4%);
• Darin Erstad 1 (0.2%);
• Rich Aurilia 0;
• Tony Clark 0;
• Jermaine Dye 0;
• Cliff Floyd 0;
• Brian Giles 0;
• Eddie Guardado 0;
• Jason Schmidt 0;

On this year's ballot, a player needed to receive 412 votes to reach or exceed the 75% needed for induction. For the first time since 1955, four players have been elected by the BBWAA into the Baseball Hall of Fame. This will also be the first time that three pitchers have been voted into the Hall by the writers in the same year. Pedro Martinez is now the first player born in the 1970's to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame (Pedro was born in 1971).

The players whose names are italicized will appear on next year's ballot, having surpassed the five percent rule to stay on (28 votes). Don Mattingly was on his fifteenth and final ballot, and will now wait for the Veteran's Committee to decide his fate in the future.

According to the Baseball Hall of Fame website, 549 ballots were cast.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama