Source: throwingthings.blogspot.com --- Tuesday, November 22, 2016
VOTING SHALL BE BASED UPON THE PLAYER'S RECORD, PLAYING ABILITY, INTEGRITY, SPORTSMANSHIP, CHARACTER, AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEAM(S) ON WHICH THE PLAYER PLAYED: The National Baseball Hall of Fame has released its new ballot for modern players . It has fifteen new names, including Ken Griffey Jr. and Trevor Hoffman, and seventeen returning players. And voters only get to select ten of them. I have set up a Doodle poll  for the ALOTT5MA community to vote. All the stats are here . Please vote for no more than ten names, because that's what the BBWAA does, remembering that anyone who falls below 5% will be dropped from next year's ballot, so vote strategically if you must. I have long believed that players accused/admitted of PED usage should be voted into the Hall if their accomplishments so merit, and with their Hall plaques "teaching the controversy" where appropriate. My 2017 ballot reflects this. with players new to the ballot noted with an asterisk: Bagwell, Bonds, Clemens, Hoffman, E Martinez, Mussina, Raines, Ramirez*, I Rodriguez*, Schilling. I did not end up voting strategically this year -- in some years, I've left off Bonds/Clemens out of the assumption they wouldn't make it anyway, but there's no one I really wanted to vote for that I couldn't. I was able to return them and Edgar Martinez to my ballot where I've had to exclude them in years past due to the 10-person limit. I'm not sure that I need to explain my votes fo ...

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