Hall of Fame 2013 vote announced Jan 9

One of the toughest years to vote if you are a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America has to be this year in reference to the ballot of players that are eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Each year the writers elect a player or players to the Hall based on the career of a certain player. This year happens to be the first year that so many of the players that were implicated in the steroids era have appeared on the ballot.

If you read the list of players, you would assume that they would sail right into the Hall of Fame based on the numbers that they put up in their careers. Not so simple though, with the allegations that a lot of those numbers have been earned by players that were reinforced with 'super human' strength often at their own peril for the substances that they used to get there.

The vote though must go on, and on Wednesday of this week we will learn just who is 'elected' to the Hall and have their names forever enshrined into the lore of baseball greatness. Players must get a 75 percent margin to get into the Hall of Fame, and there are a number of 1st year eligible players on the ballot this year. Some of the names you'll remember right away, with the home run races that they excited fans with only a few short years ago, when even baseball had to know that something was happening on the field and in the clubhouses that fueled this but they chose to turn the other cheek and let players allegations finally surface to shed light on the problem with steroids in baseball.

Who will it be? Will the baseball writers turn their cheek on the scandal and ignore it as the very game of baseball did when it was happening? Is it the baseball writers that will have to play the referee in such matters now that no policy exists for these players that have now been out of baseball for at least 5 years and virtually nothing has been done further by the Major League Baseball to govern what happens to these players? Time will tell, and on Wednesday we'll all find out.


The list of eligible players ranked from their homeruns:

									Batting Stats
Rk		YoB	%vote	Yrs	WAR	WAR7	JAWS	Jpos	G	HR ▾	RBI
1	Barry Bonds	1st		22	158.1	71.1	114.6	50.7	2986	762	1996
2	Sammy Sosa	1st		18	54.8	42.2	48.5	55.4	2354	609	1667
3	Mark McGwire	7th	19.5%	16	58.7	40.1	49.4	51.5	1874	583	1414
4	Rafael Palmeiro	3rd	12.6%	20	66.1	36.6	51.3	51.5	2831	569	1835
5	Fred McGriff	4th	23.9%	19	48.2	33.2	40.7	51.5	2460	493	1550
6	Jeff Bagwell	3rd	56.0%	15	76.7	46.7	61.7	51.5	2150	449	1529
7	Mike Piazza	1st		16	56.1	40.7	48.4	40.7	1912	427	1335
8	Dale Murphy	15th	14.5%	18	42.6	39.0	40.8	54.8	2180	398	1266
9	Larry Walker	3rd	22.9%	17	69.7	43.1	56.4	55.4	1988	383	1311
10	Shawn Green	1st		15	31.4	29.5	30.4	55.4	1951	328	1070
11	Edgar Martinez	4th	36.5%	18	64.4	41.8	53.1	53.4	2055	309	1261
12	Reggie Sanders	1st		17	36.7	25.2	30.9	55.4	1777	305	983
13	Steve Finley	1st		19	40.4	30.4	35.4	54.8	2583	304	1167
14	Craig Biggio	1st		20	62.1	40.6	51.3	54.4	2850	291	1175
15	Bernie Williams	2nd	9.6%	16	45.9	35.7	40.8	54.8	2076	287	1257
16	Ryan Klesko	1st		16	24.6	20.4	22.5	51.5	1736	278	987
17	Don Mattingly	13th	17.8%	14	39.8	34.4	37.1	51.5	1785	222	1099
18	Jeff Conine	1st		17	16.2	15.2	15.7	50.7	2024	214	1071
19	Rondell White	1st		15	25.5	19.9	22.7	54.8	1474	198	768
20	Alan Trammell	12th	36.8%	20	67.1	43.3	55.2	52.1	2293	185	1003
21	Julio Franco	1st		23	39.7	29.1	34.4	54.4	2527	173	1194
22	Tim Raines	6th	48.7%	23	66.2	41.1	53.7	50.7	2502	170	980
23	Kenny Lofton	1st		17	64.9	42.0	53.5	54.8	2103	130	781
24	Sandy Alomar	1st		20	11.6	11.8	11.7	40.7	1377	112	588
25	Jeff Cirillo	1st		14	32.0	28.7	30.3	53.4	1617	112	727
26	Royce Clayton	1st		17	16.4	15.5	15.9	52.1	2108	110	723
27	Todd Walker	1st		12	8.3	8.9	8.6	54.4	1288	107	545
28	Woody Williams	1st		15	28.1	20.2	24.2	57.8	443	4	43
29	Lee Smith	11th	50.6%	18	27.6	19.7	23.7	32.3	1023	1	2
30	Jose Mesa	1st		19	9.6	12.1	10.8	32.3	1023	0	0
31	Mike Stanton	1st		19	13.3	14.3	13.8	32.3	1178	0	3
32	Roberto Hernandez	1st		17	17.2	16.7	16.9	32.3	1010	0	0
33	Aaron Sele	1st		15	17.5	17.6	17.5	57.8	404	0	1
34	David Wells	1st		21	49.2	29.0	39.1	57.8	660	0	5
35	Curt Schilling	1st		20	76.1	46.7	61.4	57.8	571	0	29
36	Roger Clemens	1st		24	133.9	64.0	99.0	57.8	709	0	12
37	Jack Morris	14th	66.7%	18	39.3	30.8	35.1	57.8	568	0	0

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/7/2013.