Hallbound...2018!!!

The votes are in...

• Chipper Jones 410 (97.2%);
• Vladimir Guerrero 392 (92.9%);
• Jim Thome 379 (89.8%);
• Trevor Hoffman 337 (79.9%);
• Edgar Martinez 297 (70.4%);
• Mike Mussina 268 (63.5%);
• Roger Clemens 242 (57.3%);
• Barry Bonds 238 (56.4%);
• Curt Schilling 216 (51.2%);
• Omar Vizquel 156 (37.0%);
• Larry Walker 144 (34.1%);
• Fred McGriff 98 (23.2%);
• Manny Ramirez 93 (22.0%);
• Jeff Kent 61 (14.5%);
• Gary Sheffield 47 (11.1%);
• Billy Wagner 47 (11.1%);
• Scott Rolen 43 (10.2%);
• Sammy Sosa 33 (7.8%);
• Andruw Jones 31 (7.3%);
• Jamie Moyer 10 (2.4%);
• Johan Santana 10 (2.4%);
• Johnny Damon 8 (1.9%);
• Hideki Matsui 4 (0.9%);
• Chris Carpenter 2 (0.5%);
• Kerry Wood 2 (0.5%);
• Livan Hernandez 1 (0.2%);
• Carlos Lee 1 (0.2%);
• Orlando Hudson 0;
• Aubrey Huff 0;
• Jason Isringhausen 0;
• Brad Lidge 0;
• Kevin Millwood 0;
• Carlos Zambrano 0;

Congratulations to Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, Chipper Jones, and Jim Thome for being elected into the Hall of Fame. On this year's ballot, a player needed to receive 317 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 (22 votes). Edgar Martinez and Fred McGriff will be on their tenth and final ballot going into 2019.

Chipper Jones is also the 24th member of Topps' All-Star Rookie Team to be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a player (2 are in as managers).

According to the Baseball Hall of Fame website, of the 422 ballots that were cast, one of them was blank.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama