As the Cooperstown Hall of Fame and the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announce the results of the 2021 vote, the perception is growing that no candidate would receive 75% support from the jury for the niche of the immortals of the American ball. to access.
Hall of Fame president Tim Mead will announce the voting results Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. ET on a television show. If anyone gets the necessary votes, they will be honored at the glorification ceremony on Sunday, July 25 at the Clark Sports Complex in Cooperstown, along with last year’s class of Derek Jeter, Larry Walker, Ted Simmons and the late Marvin Miller. first CEO of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
Additionally, as part of the festivities, the 2020 Ford C. Frick Award-winning storytellers (Ken Harrelson) and 2021 (Al Michaels) and the 2020 JG Taylor Spink Award-winning writers (the late Nick Cafardo) and 2021 (Dick Kaegel).
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Hall of Fame ceremony was canceled last year, something that had not happened in six decades. Cooperstown had no induction ceremonies in 1950, 1958, and 1960 after the ballot resulted in no new electives, and no elections were held in 1940, 1941, and 1943. In 1942, Rogers Hornsby was elected, but there was no ceremony due to travel restrictions in the United States in connection with the Second World War.
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The ballot paper that BBWAA members eligible to vote for in the Hall of Fame last November included Bobby Abreu, Barry Bonds, Mark Buehrle, AJ Burnett, Roger Clemens, Michael Cuddyer, Dan Haren, LaTroy Hawkins, Todd Helton , Tim Hudson, Torii Hunter, Andruw Jones, Jeff Kent, Andy Pettitte, Aramis Ramírez, Manny Ramírez, Scott Rolen, Curt Schilling, Gary Sheffield, Sammy Sosa, Nick Swisher, Shane Victorino, Omar Vizquel, Billy Wagner and Barry Zito.
From the group, Buehrle, Burnett, Cuddyer, Haren, Hawkins, Hudson, Hunter, Aramis Ramírez, Swisher, Victorino and Zito are debutants, with the rest returning, including Bonds, Clemens, Schilling and Sosa for a ninth and penultimate chance.
According to the compilation Ryan Thibodeaux conducts annually, none of the candidates achieves the required 75%, when it is revealed how 176 writers voted, about 44% of the jury. Last year, 397 writers exercised their voting rights on a total of 409 ballots sent through the Hall of Fame.
With the votes published, the players with the highest votes are Schilling (74.4%), Bonds (72.2%), Clemens (71.6%), Scott Rolen (62.5%) and Todd Helton (51.1 %). None of the Latin American candidates comes close to those percentages. Andruw Jones from Curaçao was scored on 40.9% of the vote, followed by the Venezuelan Omar Vizquel (40.3%), the Dominicans Manny Ramírez (33.7%) and Sammy Sosa (22.2%), the Venezuelan Bobby Abreu (11.9%) and Aramis Ramírez from Querétaro. (0.6%).
Since the Hall of Fame was established in 1936 (the first ceremony took place three years later), the writers did not choose a new immortal in eight trials. That happened in 1945, 1946, 1950, 1958, 1960, 1971, 1996 and 2013.
The last time there was no new pick was the first year on the ballot for Bonds, Clemens, Schilling and Sosa, which are almost one stroke away from a BBWAA strike.