Baseball Hall of Fame: How the voting broke down

San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum delivers a pitch during spring training at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale Ariz., on Saturday, March, 1, 2015. The former Giants pitcher has dropped off the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot after receiving only nine votes.
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum delivers a pitch throughout spring coaching at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale Ariz., on Saturday, March, 1, 2015. The previous Giants pitcher has dropped off the Baseball Corridor of Fame poll after receiving solely 9 votes.

One participant is celebrating his upcoming enshrinement into the Baseball Corridor of Fame. Some will stay to see one other spherical of voting by baseball’s writers. For others, it’s one short-lived look on the poll.

Boston Crimson Sox slugger David Ortiz was the one participant “to obtain assist from greater than 75% of the Baseball Writers’ Affiliation of America citizens on the 2022 poll, that means Ortiz might be inducted regardless of his personal ties to performance-enhancing medication,” writes Kerry Crowley of this information group.

San Francisco Giants celebrity Barry Bonds fell quick for the tenth and closing time. “The 66% of votes Bonds earned in 2022 marked his greatest exhibiting but, however the former Giants left fielder’s Corridor of Fame destiny will now be determined by a committee,” Crowley writes.

“The 66% of votes Bonds earned in 2022 marked his greatest exhibiting but, however the former Giants left fielder’s Corridor of Fame destiny will now be determined by a committee.”

Gamers who obtain lower than 5 p.c of the votes might be dropped from the next 12 months’s poll.

Right here’s how the votes broke down in 2022:

x-David Ortiz 307 votes (77.9 p.c)

Barry Bonds 260 (66)

Roger Clemens 257 (65.2)

Scott Rolen 249 (63.2)

Curt Schilling 231 (58.6)

Todd Helton 205 (52)

Billy Wagner 201 (51)

Andruw Jones 163 (41.1)

Gary Sheffield 160 (40.6)

x-Alex Rodriguez 135 (34.3)

Jeff Kent 129 (32.7)

Manny Ramirez 114 (28.9)

Omar Vizquel 94 (23.9)

Sammy Sosa 73 (18.5)

Andy Pettitte 42 (10.7)

x-Jimmy Rollins 37 (9.4)

Bobby Abreu 34 (8.6)

Mark Buehrle 23 (5.8)

Torii Hunter 21 (5.3)

Obtained fewer than 20 votes (lower than 5):

x-Joe Nathan 17 (4.3)

Tim Hudson 12 (3)

x-Tim Lincecum 9 (2.3)

x-Ryan Howard 8 (2)

x-Mark Teixeira 6 (1.5)

x-Justin Morneau 5 (1.3)

x-Jonathan Papelbon 5 (1.3)

x-Prince Fielder 2 (0.5)

x-A.J. Pierzynski 2 (0.5)

x-Carl Crawford 0 (0)

x-Jake Peavy 0 (0)

x-first 12 months on poll

Related Press contributed to this report.

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