Baseball Hall of Fame voting for this year

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Paul Molitor and Dennis Eckersley were both voted to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. Every voter gets to vote for 8 players. Players need to be on at least 75% of the ballots to be elected.

Here is how the voting broke down this year...

The complete vote (506 ballots, 380 votes needed to gain election, 26 to remain on the ballot):

Player, Votes, Pct.

Paul Molitor, 431, 85.2%
Dennis Eckersley, 421, 83.2%
Ryne Sandberg, 309, 61.1%
Bruce Sutter, 301, 59.5%
Jim Rice, 276, 54.5%
Andre Dawson, 253, 50%
Rich Gossage, 206, 40.7%
Lee Smith, 185, 36.6%
Bert Blyleven, 179, 35.4%
Jack Morris, 133, 26.3%
Steve Garvey, 123, 24.3%
Tommy John, 111, 21.9%
Alan Trammell, 70, 13.8%
Don Mattingly, 65, 12.8%
Dave Concepcion, 57, 11.3%
Dave Parker, 53, 10.5%
Dale Murphy, 43, 8.5%
Keith Hernandez, 22, 4.3%
Joe Carter, 19, 3.8%
Fernando Valenzuela, 19, 3.8%
Dennis Martinez, 16, 3.2%
Dave Stieb, 7, 1.4%
Jim Eisenreich, 3, 0%
Jimmy Key, 3, 0%
Doug Drabek, 2, 0%
Kevin Mitchell, 2, 0%
Juan Samuel, 2, 0%
Cecil Fielder, 1, 0%
Randy Myers, 1, 0%
Terry Pendleton, 1, 0%
Danny Darwin, 0, 0%
Bob Tewksbury, 0, 0%

 

[EatMorePossum]

Surprised there isn't more support behind Gossage. He kind of made the relief pitcher a glamorous role. Molitor definately belongs, and Eck is certainly a worthy inductee as well.

 

[esorlxaw]

I can't believe Sandberg didn't get more votes, but going against The Eck and Molitor....tough guys to beat.

 

[kat2220]

I remember them all and am surprised that Gossage and Rice didn't get more votes. Congrats to the Great Eck and Paul!

 

[majestyx]

I have to agree with EMP. I'm surprised that "Goose" didn't get more votes than he did!

 

[17_Fan]

Molitor was an automatic for induction on his first ballot. 3000 hits will do that. I always felt that he could have challenged Pete Rose's hit record had he been able to stay off of the DL. He spent more time on the DL than a lot of players spend in the bigs. Paul had the quickest swing (wrists) in baseball, so he could wait on a pitch longer than anyone else.