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Joined: Mar 2006
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The full vote (549 ballots cast):
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%
Piazza's pretty well-positioned for next year. The biggest surprise, to me, is probably that Carlos Delgado is the only significant player to fall off the ballot with less than 5%. Mattingly drops off after exhausting his 15 years on the ballot.
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