Hall of Fame Ballot

The BBWAA released the Hall of Fame ballot for 2019:

Major League Baseball’s all-time saves leader, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, two batting champions, a Most Valuable Player Award winner, a multi-record-holding postseason pitcher, a pesky leadoff hitter and an infielder with the highest career fielding percentage at two positions are among 20 new candidates on the 2019 Hall of Fame ballot that is being mailed this week to more than 400 voting members of the BBWAA.

Results will be announced by Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson on Jan. 22, 2019, live on MLB Network.

Pitchers Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay and Andy Pettitte; infielders Todd Helton, Michael Young, Miguel Tejada and Placido Polanco and outfielder Juan Pierre will join 15 holdovers from the 2018 balloting in which infielders Chipper Jones and Jim Thome, outfielder Vladimir Guerrero and relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

I suspect Edgar Martinez will finally make it on his last try, and Mike Mussina might get the nod as well. I can see Halladay making it on the first ballot after his untimely death.

The real interesting person is Mariano Rivera. There are some that think he should be a first ballot Hall of Famer, while other feel that relief pitchers don’t belong in the Hall. I think he will go in eventually, but it will take two or three years.

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