VOTING RESULTS
The full voting results, out of 425 total votes:
Mariano Rivera – 425 (100%) Roy Halladay – 363 (85.4%) Edgar Martinez – 363 (85.4%) Mike Mussina – 326 (76.7%) Curt Schilling – 259 (60.9%) Roger Clemens – 253 (59.5%) Barry Bonds – 251 (59.1%) Larry Walker – 232 (54.6%) Omar Vizquel – 182 (42.8%) Fred McGriff – 169 (39.8%) Manny Ramirez – 97 (22.8%) Jeff Kent – 77 (18.1%)
Scott Rolen – 73 (17.2%)
Billy Wagner – 71 (16.7%)
Todd Helton – 70 (16.5%)
Gary Sheffield – 58 (13.6%) Andy Pettitte – 42 (9.9%) Sammy Sosa – 36 (8.5%) Andruw Jones – 32 (7.5%) Michael Young – 9 (2.1%) Lance Berkman – 5 (1.2%) Miguel Tejada –5 (1.2%)
Roy Oswalt – 4 (0.9%)
Placido Polanco – 2 (0.5%) Received zero votes: Rick Ankiel; Jason Bay; Freddy Garcia; Jon Garland; Travis Hafner; Ted Lilly; Derek Lowe; Darren Oliver; Juan Pierre; Vernon Wells; Kevin Youkilis
That will mark a decade of the Hall reckoning with the Steroid Era, and it will be fascinating to see how the final-year dramas of Bonds and Clemens play out alongside the debut of the beloved Ortiz.
Fortunately, it will not be ballot backlogs keeping them out; if 26 percent of the electorate determine their well-documented connections to performanceenhancing drugs are too strong to ignore, well, that’s a legitimate stance, albeit one many disagree with.
That’s a problem for a few Januaries from now. For now, fans have a star-studded and emotional July afternoon in Cooperstown to relish.
And the best Hall of Fame in sports can take some solace in the fact that many wrongs can, eventually, be made right.