https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/552540232584036353Jeff Passan @JeffPassan 3s4 seconds ago
Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Fame. It's the biggest BBWAA class since 1955.
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/552540232584036353Jeff Passan @JeffPassan 3s4 seconds ago
Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Fame. It's the biggest BBWAA class since 1955.
Jeff Passan @JeffPassan 1m1 minute ago
Randy Johnson gets in at 97.1 percent. Pedro Martinez at 91.1 percent. John Smoltz at 82.9 percent and Craig Biggio at 82.7 percent.
Red(s)HawksFan said:Who the fuck voted for Darin fucking Erstad?
He is in. Who cares about the percentage. We all know there are ahole voters.Snodgrass'Muff said:It's 91.1%, not 90.1. Too low either way.
Red(s)HawksFan said:Who the fuck voted for Darin fucking Erstad?
RedOctober3829 said:How could 49 people not even vote for Pedro Martinez? That is inexcusable.
Aaron Boone (Career WAR below 10) got twice as many as Erstad who had a career WAR of 28.3.Red(s)HawksFan said:Who the fuck voted for Darin fucking Erstad?
RedOctober3829 said:How could 49 people not even vote for Pedro Martinez? That is inexcusable.
Nothing can wipe the smile off my face from Pedro's induction, but I agree, that is a complete fucking joke that no amount of explaining away as a 'strategic vote' can justify.RedOctober3829 said:How could 49 people not even vote for Pedro Martinez? That is inexcusable.
How is there 10 more deserving players on that ballot than Pedro Martinez? Give me a break.Red(s)HawksFan said:
Excusable for the people who left him off strategically to give a vote to someone else deserving because of the 10 candidate limit. Inexcusable for the voters who had room on their ballot and left him off. I'm guessing there's more of the latter than the former.
Lose Remerswaal said:Randy Johnson 97.3% 500
Pedro Martinez 91.1% 455
John Smoltz 82.9% 454
Craig Biggio 82.7% 384
Mike Piazza 69.9% 306
Jeff Bagwell 55.7% 302
Tim Raines 55.0% 215
Curt Schilling 39.2% 206
Roger Clemens 37.5% 202
Barry Bonds 36.8% 166
Lee Smith 30.2% 148
Edgar Martinez 27.0% 138
Alan Trammell 25.1% 135
Mike Mussina 24.6% 77
Jeff Kent 14.0% 71
Fred McGriff 12.9% 65
Larry Walker 11.8% 64
Gary Sheffield 11.7% 55
Mark McGwire 10.0% 50
Don Mattingly 9.1% 36
Sammy Sosa 6.6% 30
Nomar Garciaparra 5.5% 21
Carlos Delgado 3.8% 14
Troy Percival 0.7% 2
Aaron Boone 0.4% 2
Tom Gordon 0.4% 1
Darin Erstad 0.2% 1
Others have 0
Yes. 5% is the cut-off, so Nomar still on.E5 Yaz said:Does this mean Carlos Delgado falls off the ballot?
rodderick said:
Who the fuck voted for Aaron Boone?
TheYaz67 said:And bye-bye to Donnie Baseball on his last ballot...
RedOctober3829 said:How is there 10 more deserving players on that ballot than Pedro Martinez? Give me a break.
Emplooyee of the week at the Falmouth Wal-Mart, three weeks in a row.Red(s)HawksFan said:Who the fuck voted for Darin fucking Erstad?
jsinger121 said:He is in. Who cares about the percentage. We all know there are ahole voters.
JohntheBaptist said:
These number are wrong--the vote total came before the name, so you cut off Unit's total and attributed the number to the next guy in the list. Players needed 412 to get in, and as you have it here Biggio reads at 384. Pedro had the 500 vote total, Smoltz 455, etc.
edit--Unit's total was 534. The vote total after each name then is actually for the guy below him.
RedOctober3829 said:How could 49 people not even vote for Pedro Martinez? That is inexcusable.
E5 Yaz said:Why these numbers are lower than what the tracker revealed, I think, comes down to the old guard types and outlier voters being less likely to agree to reveal their choices
Merkle's Boner said:I may be totally off base here, and I would love to hear from someone more versed in Statistics than me, but isn't it unlikely to ever get 100% agreement from a population of over 500, and isn't it also possible that you will always get some quack who votes for something or someone crazy. Calling Nate Silver?
But they won't change it.Ed Hillel said:Schilling is going to be interesting to watch as this goes on, especially if they start letting voters vote for more players.
Closer bias.foulkehampshire said:I don't get Smoltz over Schilling. Career work is pretty similar, but Schilling had a better peak and has 3 rings.
Personality bias?