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 Wednesday, January 24, 2018, to let the world know who has been inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, I will be at home, 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 33 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:

• Barry Bonds, 6th, 53.8%
• Chris Carpenter
• Roger Clemens, 6th, 54.1%
• Johnny Damon
• Vladimir Guerrero, 2nd, 71.7%
• Trevor Hoffman, 3rd, 74.0%
• Livan Hernandez
• Orlando Hudson
• Aubrey Huff
• Jason Isringhausen
• Andruw Jones
• Chipper Jones
• Jeff Kent, 5th, 16.7%
• Carlos Lee
• Brad Lidge
• Edgar Martinez, 9th, 58.6%
• Hideki Matsui
• Fred McGriff, 9th, 21.7%
• Kevin Millwood
• Jamie Moyer
• Mike Mussina, 5th, 51.8%
• Manny Ramirez, 2nd, 23.8%
• Scott Rolen
• Johan Santana
• Curt Schilling, 6th, 45.0%
• Gary Sheffield, 4rd, 13.3%
• Sammy Sosa, 6th, 8.6%
• Jim Thome
• Omar Vizquel
• Billy Wagner, 3nd, 10.2%
• Larry Walker, 8th, 21.9%
• Kerry Wood
• Carlos Zambrano

When this post comes out, it will be 24 hours before the big announcement. At this time, only the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the accounting firm that tabulated the votes knows who will join Jack Morris and Alan Trammell in Cooperstown on Sunday, July 29, 2018.

Good luck to everyone.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama