Hallbound...2017!!!

The votes are in...

• Jeff Bagwell 381 (86.2%);
• Tim Raines 380 (86%);
• Ivan Rodriguez 307 (76.0%);
• Trevor Hoffman 327 (74.0%);
• Vladimir Guerrero 317 (71.7%);
• Edgar Martinez 259 (58.6%);
• Roger Clemens 239 (54.1%);
• Barry Bonds 238 (53.8%);
• Mike Mussina 229 (51.8%);
• Curt Schilling 199 (45.3%);
• Lee Smith 151 (34.1%);
• Manny Ramirez 105 (23.8%);
• Larry Walker 97 (21.9%);
• Fred McGriff 96 (21.7%);
• Jeff Kent 74 (16.7%);
• Gary Sheffield 59 (13.3%);
• Billy Wagner 45 (10.2%);
• Sammy Sosa 38 (8.6%);
• Jorge Posada 17 (3.8%);
• Magglio Ordonez 3 (0.7%);
• Edgar Renteria 2 (0.5%);
• Jason Varitek 2 (0.5%);
• Tim Wakefield 1 (0.2%);
• Casey Blake 0;
• Pat Burrell 0;
• Orlando Cabrera 0;
• Mike Cameron 0;
• J.D. Drew 0;
• Carlos Guillen 0;
• Derrek Lee 0;
• Melvin Mora 0;
• Arthur Rhodes 0;
• Freddy Sanchez 0;
• Matt Stairs 0;

Congratulations to Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan Rodriguez for being elected into the Hall of Fame. On this year's ballot, a player needed to receive 332 votes to reach or exceed the 75% needed for induction.

The players whose names are italicized will appear on next year's ballot, having surpassed the five percent rule to stay on (23 votes). Lee Smith was on his fifteenth and final ballot. He will now wait for the Veteran's Committee to decide his fate in the future.

According to the Baseball Hall of Fame website, 442 ballots were cast.

No one has mentioned this yet, but all three of this year's inductees are members of Topps All-Star Rookie Team. The "Rock" was on the 1981 ASRT, while both Bagwell and "Pudge" were part of the 1991 team. I think I'm going to visit the Wikipedia page and make a few edits...

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama

Update: Wednesday, January 17, 2017, 07:10 PM CST

After a bit of digging, it looks like of the 442 ballots that were cast, two of them were blank.