Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot 2021

The 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was released yesterday, with new names on the ballot and returning ones.

By Michael Foulks,Sports O'clock Writing Team Member

(photo credits: Whec ty)

New players to the ballot:

- Mark Buehrle

- A.J. Burnett

-Michael Cuddyer

-Dan Haren

-LaTroy Hawkins

-Tim Hudson

-Aramis Ramirez

-Nick Swisher

-Shane Victorino

-Barry Zito

Returning players to the ballot:

-Curt Schilling: 9th year, 2019; 70.0%

-Scott Rolen: 4th year, 2019; 35.3%

-Manny Ramirez: 5th year, 2019; 28.2%

-Andy Pettitte: 3rd year, 2019; 11.3%

-Roger Clemens: 9th year, 2019; 61.0%

- Billy Wagner: 6th year, 2019; 31.7%

-Jeff Kent: 8th year, 2019; 27.5%

-Bobby Abreu: 2nd year, 2019; 5.5%

-Barry Bonds: 9th year, 2019; 60.7%

-Gary Sheffield: 7th year, 2019; 30.5%

-Andruw Jones: 4th year, 2019; 19.4%

-Omar Vizquel: 4th year, 2019; 52.6%

-Todd Helton: 3rd year, 2019; 29.2%

-Sammy Sosa: 9th year, 2019; 13.9%

Prediction:

-Curt Schilling elected at 75%

-Barry Bonds/Roger Clemens miss out by 3%

-Bobby Abreu, Nick Swisher, A.J. Burnett, LaTroy Hawkins, Michael Cuddyer fall off the ballot

Announcement will be made on January 26th, 2021.

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