RedsZone's 2022 BBWAA HOF Ballot Vote

[Kinsm]

On Tuesday, January 25th, the BBWAA will announce the results of its 2022 Hall of Fame balloting. Any electees will be inducted on Sunday, July 24th, at 1:30 p.m. at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown.

^The Class of 2022 Era Committee electees, which features Bud Fowler, Buck O'Neil, Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva, Gil Hodges, and Minnie Miñoso, will also be inducted that day.

Any candidate who receives votes on 75 percent of all ballots cast will earn election to the Hall of Fame. Those who receive fewer than 5 percent of all ballots cast (or whom have been on the ballot for 10 years) will fall off next years' ballot.

Seventeen former players are returning to the 2022 BBWAA ballot after receiving at least five percent of the overall vote in 2021:

Curt Schilling
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Scott Rolen
Omar Vizquel
Billy Wagner
Todd Helton
Gary Sheffield
Andruw Jones
Jeff Kent
Manny Ramirez
Sammy Sosa
Andy Pettitte
Mark Buehrle
Torii Hunter
Bobby Abreu
Tim Hudson

Thirteen additional players will be making their BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot debut in 2022:

Carl Crawford
Prince Fielder
Ryan Howard
Tim Lincecum
Justin Morneau
Joe Nathan
David Ortiz
Jonathan Papelbon
Jake Peavy
A.J. Pierzynski
Alex Rodriguez
Jimmy Rollins
Mark Teixeira

(The following thirteen players also qualified for the final ballot this year for the first time; but they weren't selected by the screening committee for the full BBWAA vote: Michael Bourn, Billy Butler, Marlon Byrd, Coco Crisp, Jeff Francoeur, Omar Infante, Colby Lewis, Kyle Lohse, Javier Lopez, Angel Pagan, Matt Thornton, Juan Uribe, and Ryan Vogelsong.)

***VOTE FOR A MAXIMUM TEN PLAYERS***




The Hall of Fame will announce the results on Tuesday, January 25th, with live coverage on MLB Network beginning at 3 p.m. ET

[Kinsm]

Name	YoB	Yrs	WAR	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SB	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+
Bobby Abreu	3rd	18	60.2	2425	8480	1453	2470	288	1363	400	1476	.291	.395	.475	.870	128
Barry Bonds	10th	22	162.7	2986	9847	2227	2935	762	1996	514	2558	.298	.444	.607	1.051	182
Carl Crawford	1st	15	39.1	1716	6655	998	1931	136	766	480	377	.290	.330	.435	.765	105
Prince Fielder	1st	12	23.8	1611	5821	862	1645	319	1028	18	847	.283	.382	.506	.887	134
Todd Helton	4th	17	61.8	2247	7962	1401	2519	369	1406	37	1335	.316	.414	.539	.953	133
Ryan Howard	1st	13	14.7	1572	5707	848	1475	382	1194	12	709	.258	.343	.515	.859	125
Torii Hunter	2nd	19	50.7	2372	8857	1296	2452	353	1391	195	661	.277	.331	.461	.793	110
Andruw Jones	5th	17	62.7	2196	7599	1204	1933	434	1289	152	891	.254	.337	.486	.823	111
Jeff Kent	9th	17	55.5	2298	8498	1320	2461	377	1518	94	801	.290	.356	.500	.855	123
Justin Morneau	1st	14	27.0	1545	5699	772	1603	247	985	5	573	.281	.348	.481	.828	120
David Ortiz	1st	20	55.3	2408	8640	1419	2472	541	1768	17	1319	.286	.380	.552	.931	141
A.J. Pierzynski	1st	19	23.8	2059	7290	807	2043	188	909	15	308	.280	.319	.420	.739	94
Manny Ramirez	6th	19	69.3	2302	8244	1544	2574	555	1831	38	1329	.312	.411	.585	.996	154
Alex Rodriguez	1st	22	117.5	2784	10566	2021	3115	696	2086	329	1338	.295	.380	.550	.930	140
Scott Rolen	5th	17	70.1	2038	7398	1211	2077	316	1287	118	899	.281	.364	.490	.855	122
Jimmy Rollins	1st	17	47.6	2275	9294	1421	2455	231	936	470	813	.264	.324	.418	.743	95
Gary Sheffield	8th	22	60.5	2576	9217	1636	2689	509	1676	253	1475	.292	.393	.514	.907	140
Sammy Sosa	10th	18	58.6	2354	8813	1475	2408	609	1667	234	929	.273	.344	.534	.878	128
Mark Teixeira	1st	14	50.6	1862	6936	1099	1862	409	1298	26	918	.268	.360	.509	.869	126
Omar Vizquel	5th	24	45.6	2968	10586	1445	2877	80	951	404	1028	.272	.336	.352	.688	82

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/6/2021.

Name	YoB	Yrs	WAR	W	L	ERA	ERA+	WHIP	G	GS	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	SO
Mark Buehrle	2nd	16	59.1	214	160	3.81	117	1.281	518	493	0	3283.1	3472	361	734	1870
Roger Clemens	10th	24	139.2	354	184	3.12	143	1.173	709	707	0	4916.2	4185	363	1580	4672
Tim Hudson	2nd	17	57.9	222	133	3.49	120	1.239	482	479	0	3126.2	2957	248	917	2080
Tim Lincecum	1st	10	19.5	110	89	3.74	104	1.293	278	270	1	1682.0	1506	147	669	1736
Joe Nathan	1st	16	26.7	64	34	2.87	151	1.120	787	29	377	923.1	690	84	344	976
Jonathan Papelbon	1st	12	23.3	41	36	2.44	177	1.043	689	3	368	725.2	572	57	185	808
Jake Peavy	1st	15	39.2	152	126	3.63	110	1.196	388	377	0	2377.0	2134	259	708	2207
Andy Pettitte	4th	18	60.2	256	153	3.85	117	1.351	531	521	0	3316.0	3448	288	1031	2448
Curt Schilling	10th	20	79.5	216	146	3.46	127	1.137	569	436	22	3261.0	2998	347	711	3116
Billy Wagner	7th	16	27.7	47	40	2.31	187	0.998	853	0	422	903.0	601	82	300	1196

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/6/2021.

[Kinsm]

BRef Eligible:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/a...hof_2022.shtml

***REMEMBER: VOTE FOR A MAXIMUM TEN PLAYERS***

[Kinsm]

Link to past year's RedsZone voting for anyone who wants to go back in time...

2021 (74 voters):
https://www.redszone.com/forums/show...OF-Ballot-Vote

2020 (94 voters):
https://www.redszone.com/forums/show...OF-Ballot-Vote

2019 (92 voters):
https://www.redszone.com/forums/show...OF-Ballot-Vote

[Kinsm]

So...I plan to play Nostradamus again this year - a day before the final vote I'll predict the final BBWAA vote.

Between now and then, I'll simply go with a quick guess....that no player gets inducted again this year - and this summer we'll watch Kaat and Oliva get inducted (assuming they don't pass between now and then - they are both 83 years young). That means Schilling, Clemens, Bonds, and Sosa would be relegated to the era committees to get inducted as this is their 10th and final time on the writers ballot.

[cumberlandreds]

I voted for Bonds and Clemons this year, their final year. (not that I have any real say in the vote) I do believe they would have made it if they hadn't juiced it up. But since they did I waited until the final year to vote for them just so they would twist in the wind as long as possible. I'm doing the same treatment to ARod.

[Kinsm]

Future Ballot Reference:

***2023's Ballot (final playing season 2017) will include for the first time, players: Carlos Beltran, John Lackey, Jered Weaver, Jacoby Ellsbury, Matt Cain, Jhonny Peralta, Jayson Werth, J.J. Hardy, Mike Napoli, Aaron Hill, Bronson Arroyo, R.A. Dickey, Erick Aybar, Carlos Ruiz, Ubaldo Jimenez, Francisco Rodriguez, Andre Ethier, Huston Street, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2023 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Today's Game" Era Committee.

***2024's Ballot (final playing season 2018) will include for the first time, players: Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer, Chase Utley, David Wright, Bartolo Colon, Matt Holliday, Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Victor Martinez, James Shields, Brandon Phillips, Denard Span, Chase Headley, Yovani Gallardo, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2024 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Modern Baseball" Era Committee.

***2025's Ballot (final playing season 2019) will include for the first time, players: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Dustin Pedroia, Ian Kinsler, Felix Hernandez, Troy Tulowitzki, Ben Zobrist, Curtis Granderson, Hanley Ramirez, Russell Martin, Adam Jones, Brian McCann, Martin Prado, Carlos Gonzalez, Melky Cabrera, Francisco Liriano, Fernando Rodney, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2025 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Today's Game" Era Committee.

***2026's Ballot (final playing season 2020) will include for the first time, players: Robinson Cano, Justin Verlander, Cole Hamels, Ryan Braun, Alex Gordon, Shin-Soo Choo, Edwin Encarnacion, Howie Kendrick, Nick Markakis, Hunter Pence, Gio Gonzalez, Anibal Sanchez, Matt Kemp, Jason Kipnis, Rick Porcello, Daniel Murphy, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2026 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Modern Baseball" Era Committee.



***Assuming none of the players listed above play in another major league game.

^The "Today's Game" Era Committee will include players no longer eligible for election by the BBWAA, along with managers, umpires, and executives, whose greatest contributions to the game were realized from the 1998 to present day (players must have retired at least 15 years prior to current year's election).

^The "Modern Baseball" Era Committee will include players no longer eligible for election by the BBWAA, along with managers, umpires, and executives, whose greatest contributions to the game were realized from the 1970 to 1987.

[RedsBaron]

So...I plan to play Nostradamus again this year - a day before the final vote I'll predict the final BBWAA vote.

Between now and then, I'll simply go with a quick guess....that no player gets inducted again this year - and this summer we'll watch Kaat and Oliva get inducted (assuming they don't pass between now and then - they are both 83 years young). That means Schilling, Clemens, Bonds, and Sosa would be relegated to the era committees to get inducted as this is their 10th and final time on the writers ballot.

You are probably correct. Schilling should have been inducted years ago. Rolen is deserving of induction. I'd also probably vote for Clemens, Bonds, Sosa and Sheffield, despite the PEDs allegations; each one was a great player and MLB allowed and prospered from PEDs use.

[Coopdaddy67]

Bonds
Clemens
Helton
Jones
Ortiz
Rodriguez
Rolen
Schilling
Sheffield
Wagner

So...I plan to play Nostradamus again this year - a day before the final vote I'll predict the final BBWAA vote.

Between now and then, I'll simply go with a quick guess....that no player gets inducted again this year - and this summer we'll watch Kaat and Oliva get inducted (assuming they don't pass between now and then - they are both 83 years young). That means Schilling, Clemens, Bonds, and Sosa would be relegated to the era committees to get inducted as this is their 10th and final time on the writers ballot.

Perhaps them leaving out Bonds, Clemens and Schilling would lead to the HOF changing how entry is granted. Too many offensively stupid people casting votes as illustrated on NotMrTibbs' twitter account every year.

[kaldaniels]

Future Ballot Reference:

***2023's Ballot (final playing season 2017) will include for the first time, players: Carlos Beltran, John Lackey, Jered Weaver, Jacoby Ellsbury, Matt Cain, Jhonny Peralta, Jayson Werth, J.J. Hardy, Mike Napoli, Aaron Hill, Bronson Arroyo, R.A. Dickey, Erick Aybar, Carlos Ruiz, Ubaldo Jimenez, Francisco Rodriguez, Andre Ethier, Huston Street, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2023 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Today's Game" Era Committee.

***2024's Ballot (final playing season 2018) will include for the first time, players: Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer, Chase Utley, David Wright, Bartolo Colon, Matt Holliday, Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Victor Martinez, James Shields, Brandon Phillips, Denard Span, Chase Headley, Yovani Gallardo, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2024 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Modern Baseball" Era Committee.

***2025's Ballot (final playing season 2019) will include for the first time, players: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Dustin Pedroia, Ian Kinsler, Felix Hernandez, Troy Tulowitzki, Ben Zobrist, Curtis Granderson, Hanley Ramirez, Russell Martin, Adam Jones, Brian McCann, Martin Prado, Carlos Gonzalez, Melky Cabrera, Francisco Liriano, Fernando Rodney, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2025 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Today's Game" Era Committee.

***2026's Ballot (final playing season 2020) will include for the first time, players: Robinson Cano, Justin Verlander, Cole Hamels, Ryan Braun, Alex Gordon, Shin-Soo Choo, Edwin Encarnacion, Howie Kendrick, Nick Markakis, Hunter Pence, Gio Gonzalez, Anibal Sanchez, Matt Kemp, Jason Kipnis, Rick Porcello, Daniel Murphy, among others below 20 career bWAR.

2026 will also have a supplementary ballot due to the "Modern Baseball" Era Committee.



***Assuming none of the players listed above play in another major league game.

^The "Today's Game" Era Committee will include players no longer eligible for election by the BBWAA, along with managers, umpires, and executives, whose greatest contributions to the game were realized from the 1998 to present day (players must have retired at least 15 years prior to current year's election).

^The "Modern Baseball" Era Committee will include players no longer eligible for election by the BBWAA, along with managers, umpires, and executives, whose greatest contributions to the game were realized from the 1970 to 1987.

Makes me sad and old to already see Matt Cain on the 2023 list. I pimped him as a future HOFer many times a while back. Though he was gonna be a horse.

Kinda in the Verlander mold…ironic since Verlander is incorrectly on that list. (He’s pitching this year)

[Strikes Out Looking]

Jeff Kent and Scott Rolen.

I'd vote for Ortiz in his second year (DH isn't worthy of a first year vote, imho)--and I do realize he had the one leaked positive ped test, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt -which I'm not giving the others (I can't really justify it, so I'm not going to debate it).

The others with the good numbers are either pedded or are Curt Schilling. Not worthy of the HOF (at least until Joe Jackson gets in).

[Kinsm]

Makes me sad and old to already see Matt Cain on the 2023 list. I pimped him as a future HOFer many times a while back. Though he was gonna be a horse.

Kinda in the Verlander mold…ironic since Verlander is incorrectly on that list. (He’s pitching this year)

Until Verlander officially plays in another MLB game he'll remain on the 2026 eligible list.

[kaldaniels]

Until Verlander officially plays in another MLB game he'll remain on the 2026 eligible list.

Apologies if you wrote and did all that as it looked so good it seemed like a cut and paste job.

[Kinsm]

No cutting and pasting here Kal, at least not without a source appendage.

[RedsManRick]

More is lost by keeping Bonds, Clemens, A-Rod, etc. from the HOF on the basis of their steroid use than is gained by keeping them out. History won't look on their careers as any lesser for having not been elected. Their statistics still count and their greatness as players still broadly recognized and appropriately caveated. However, by their absence they will maintain their place taking up an outsized part of the HOF conversation. Falling off the ballot will not remove them from the conversation nearly as much as electing them would.

Don't let them speak at the inauguration ceremony. Put an asterisk on their plaque denoted them as having been caught cheating and/or implicated in the steroid era. Put them in a special Hall of Shame wing for all I care. But elect them for the sake of posterity, for properly telling the story of the era, and let us move on from it.

For the record, I'm a big Hall guy and I voted:

*** No Brainer
** Confident
* Could be convinced otherwise

Bonds ***
Clemens ***
Kent *
Ortiz * (strong historical narrative value)
Manny **
Pettite **
A-Rod ***
Rolen **
Schilling ***
Sheffield *

Under future consideration
Wagner * (I personally think closers are overrated, but if the broader community will elect them, he needs to be in)
Abreu *
Jones *
Sosa *