2015 HOF Ballot, CPF Edition

[MFS62]

Cast my tenth vote for Walker.

Later

[Edgy MD]

I'm assuming that, so far, 27 posters voted in this thread. Therefore, a candidate would need 21 votes for HOF admission based on the current voting (75% of 27 votes = 20.25; 20 votes constitutes 74% of the vote). So far, six candidates received enough votes for admission: Randy Johnson (27) Mike Piazza (27) Pedro Martinez (26) Craig Biggio (25) John Smoltz (22) Tim Raines (21) ______________ Jeff Bagwell (18) Barry Bonds (13) Alan Trammell (13) Roger Clemens (11) Edgar Martinez (10)

Good work.

Anybody didn't vote for Johnson or Piazza, please raise your hands. Else, we'll indeed assume that our leaders' totals do indeed represent our denominator.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Also... I'm kind of curious who left off Pedro, just, y'know, because.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Also... I'm kind of curious who left off Pedro, just, y'know, because.

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I didn't vote in this thread, but if I did, or if I had a real HOF ballot, I might omit Pedro. Here's why: if I decide that there are more than 10 deserving candidates --- and Pedro would surely be one of those deserving candidates, he's a no-doubter, inner circle HOF'er --- I'd winnow my list of candidates to 10 based on how long each candidate was HOF eligible, descending order. I'd give players like Raines and Trammell and (Edgar) Martinez priority over newer eligibles, like Pedro.

[Edgy MD]

I kinda did that.

[Zvon]

My list went:

Craig Biggio
Randy Johnson
Jeff Kent
Edgar Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Mike Piazza
Curt Schilling
Gary Sheffield
Lee Smith
John Smoltz


That was off the top of my head. I didn't go comparing numbers or anything like that. If I seriously checked career stats and whatnot my list might be a little different, but not much.

[Gwreck]

I was surprised to see so few votes for Edgar Martinez.

I thought Jay Jaffe's piece for SI was a very good read on Martinez's worthiness of induction: http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/12/23/jaws-2015-hall-of-fame-ballot-edgar-martinez

[Edgy MD]

I'm Larry Walker. Sucks to be me.

Guy	Votes	Pct.
Randy Johnson	30	100.0%
Mike Piazza	30	100.0%
Pedro Martinez	29	96.7%
Craig Biggio	28	93.3%
John Smoltz	25	83.3%
Tim Raines	21	70.0%
Jeff Bagwell	19	63.3%
Barry Bonds	14	46.7%
Alan Trammell	14	46.7%
Roger Clemens	11	36.7%
Edgar Martinez	11	36.7%
Curt Schilling	10	33.3%
Jeff Kent	4	13.3%
Gary Sheffield	4	13.3%
Lee Smith	3	10.0%
Mark McGwire	2	6.7%
Carlos Delgado	1	3.3%
Fred McGriff	1	3.3%
Mike Mussina	1	3.3%
Sammy Sosa	1	3.3%
Rich Aurilia	0	0.0%
Aaron Boone	0	0.0%
Tony Clark	0	0.0%
Jermaine Dye	0	0.0%
Darin Erstad	0	0.0%
Cliff Floyd	0	0.0%
Nomar Garciaparra	0	0.0%
Brian Giles	0	0.0%
Tom Gordon	0	0.0%
Eddie Guardado	0	0.0%
Don Mattingly	0	0.0%
Troy Percival	0	0.0%
Jason Schmidt	0	0.0%
Larry Walker	0	0.0%

[Edgy MD]

.280 / .383 / .546 // .929

Who wouldn't sign up for that line from their first baseman any year? Well, that's Carlos Delgado, over 17 years.

But he has one vote.