Johnson, Martinez, Smoltz and Biggio have been elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

[Ironman_8]

Good for all of them. Great choices!

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...y-johnson-craig-biggio-john-smoltz-voted-hall

Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio have been elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Baseball writers elected four players for the first time since 1955, with Martinez, Johnson and Smoltz earning induction on the first try Tuesday. Biggio made it on the third attempt after falling two votes shy last year.

 

[OneZero]

Biggio! About time.

 

[Ironman_8]

Full voting results:

http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2015


Ballots Cast: 549 Needed for Election: 412
Votes Player Percentage
534 Randy Johnson 97.3%
500 Pedro Martinez 91.1%
455 John Smoltz 82.9%
454 Craig Biggio 82.7%
384 Mike Piazza 69.9%
306 Jeff Bagwell 55.7%
302 Tim Raines 55.0%
215 Curt Schilling 39.2%
206 Roger Clemens 37.5%
202 Barry Bonds 36.8%
166 Lee Smith 30.2%
148 Edgar Martinez 27.0%
138 Alan Trammell 25.1%
135 Mike Mussina 24.6%
77 Jeff Kent 14.0%
71 Fred McGriff 12.9%
65 Larry Walker 11.8%
64 Gary Sheffield 11.7%
55 Mark McGwire 10.0%
50 Don Mattingly 9.1%
36 Sammy Sosa 6.6%
30 Nomar Garciaparra 5.5%
21 Carlos Delgado 3.8%
4 Troy Percival 0.7%
2 Aaron Boone 0.4%
2 Tom Gordon 0.4%
1 Darin Erstad 0.2%
0 Rich Aurilia 0.0%
0 Tony Clark 0.0%
0 Jermaine Dye 0.0%
0 Cliff Floyd 0.0%
0 Brian Giles 0.0%
0 Eddie Guardado 0.0%
0 Jason Schmidt 0.0%

 

[trytrytry]

nice collection of players there. very rare for 4 to be voted in on year...

 

[packer2012]

As I have said before... until they relax and get Bonds and Rose in there.... and others..... but, I feel, especially those two..... they should simply blow the son-of-a-bitch up.

And.... why are some of those hammerheads down at the bottom even on the list? If it is because someone voted for them at some time...... that person should lose their vote!

 

[packer2012]

Piazza probably deserves induction.... even those he was a total putz defensively!

 

[texansfan]

Happy for Biggio

 

[sportsfantatic44]

Piazza not getting in again is a total joke.

 

[CHOPTALK]

Whoever voted for Aaron "fucking" Boone should lose voting privileges . Especially considering the fact that there is a 70% chance that same person did not vote for Bonds who was the most dominant hitter in the history of baseball.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

Piazza not getting in again is a total joke.

agreed...

 

[REDEYE]

Biggio doesn't belong imo.... What did he do that was so outstanding ? he played 20 years..... big deal

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

As I have said before... until they relax and get Bonds and Rose in there.... and others..... but, I feel, especially those two..... they should simply blow the son-of-a-bitch up.

And.... why are some of those hammerheads down at the bottom even on the list? If it is because someone voted for them at some time...... that person should lose their vote!

I agree; the bottom dozen on that list shouldn't even be allowed to buy a ticket to the HOF.

 

[texansfan]

Great job on voting in Biggio.

 

[doubledeuce22]

I think most reasonable people realize piazza was a juice guy.

 

[Albatross]

Nobody will ever do what Smoltz did as a pitcher. Badass!

 

[barman]

The HOF should annually disqualify any voter who:

Fails to vote Yes for a player who receives 95%+ of overall votes

and/or

Votes for any player who receives only 5% of overall votes

 

[barman]

Great job on voting in Biggio.

Biggio a lifetime ACLU member

Is he the first Astro in HOF?

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Votes should be on record with the voters being mentioned....

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Good for all of them. Great choices!

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...y-johnson-craig-biggio-john-smoltz-voted-hall

Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio have been elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Baseball writers elected four players for the first time since 1955, with Martinez, Johnson and Smoltz earning induction on the first try Tuesday. Biggio made it on the third attempt after falling two votes shy last year.

Good to see you around Ironman8.......Any of those voters who didn't vote for Randy or Pedro should not be voting....

 

[Ironman_8]

Good to see you around Ironman8.......Any of those voters who didn't vote for Randy or Pedro should not be voting....

Appreciate it. Nothing surprises me as far as HOF voting is concerned.