Here is the official vote total for induction into the baseball Hall of Fame.

Name2016 votes (percent)Years on ballot
Ken Griffey Jr.437 (99.3)1
Mike Piazza365 (83.0)4
Jeff Bagwell315 (71.6)6
Tim Raines307 (69.8)9
Trevor Hoffman296 (67.3)1
Curt Schilling230 (52.3)4
Roger Clemens199 (45.2)4
Barry Bonds195 (44.3)4
Edgar Martinez191 (43.4)7
Mike Mussina189 (43.0)3
Alan Trammell180 (40.9)15
Lee Smith150 (34.1)14
Fred McGriff92 (20.9)9
Jeff Kent73 (16.6)3
Larry Walker68 (15.5)6
Mark McGwire54 (12.3)10
Gary Sheffield51 (11.6)2
Billy Wagner46 (10.5)1
Sammy Sosa31 (7.0)4
Jim Edmonds11 (2.5)1
Nomar Garciaparra8 (1.8)2
Mike Sweeney3 (0.7)1
David Eckstein2 (0.5)1
Jason Kendall2 (0.5)1
Garret Anderson1 (0.2)1
Brad Ausmus01
Luis Castillo01
Troy Glaus01
Mark Gruzielanek01
Mike Hampton01
Mike Lowell01
Randy Winn01

 

ELECTED: KEN GRIFFY

Ken Griffey Jr. set an all-time record with 99.3 percent of the vote, surpassing Tom Seaver’s mark of 98.8 percent (only three of 440 voters didn’t vote for Griffey). My question… how did Babe Ruth not get elected unanimously? Why is everyone out there saying that Griffey should have been unanimous? Tremendous player. No doubt at all that his overall game was stupendous. Zero doubt. But unanimous? Just stop.

Griffey made 13 All-Star teams.
He was a Gold Glove winner 10 times.
He is 28th all-time in MVP Shares (3.20). He won the award in 1997.
He ranks 57th all-time in WAR (Baseball Reference). He’s 35th amongst position players.

He hit 630 homers, sixth all-time.
He drove in 1,836 runs, 15th all-time.
He is 34th all-time in times reaching base (4,174).
He ranks 55th all-time in OPS (.907).
He hit 30 homers eight times.
He drove in 100 runs eight times.

Per 162 games: .284-38-111-101-11 with a .907 OPS

He was the first player ever elected to the Hall of Fame who was taken first overall in the Entry Draft.

ELECTED: MIKE PIAZZA

Mike Piazza went from nobody to the best hitting catcher of all-time. Piazza was the lowest drafted player every elected to the Hall of Fame. Piazza was taken in the 62nd round (the previous record was 22nd round).  

He made 12 All-Star teams.
He ranks 30th all-time in MVP Shares (3.15).
He won 10 Silver Slugger awards, the most ever for a catcher.
He is 185th all-time in WAR (Baseball Reference). He’s 122nd amongst position players.

Per 162 games: .308-36-113-89-1 with a .922 OPS
A catcher folks with those numbers.
He had 397 homers as a catcher, an all-time record.
He had a .545 SLG as a catcher, an all-time record.
He had a .922 OPS as a catcher, an all-time record.

He hit 30 homers nine times.
He drove in 100 runs six times (he had 90 four other times).
He hit .300 ten times.

He was the greatest hitting catcher ever.

JUST MISSED OUT

Jeff Bagwell, in his sixth year on the ballot, received 71.6 percent of the vote. For more on his candidacy here is my report.

Tim Raines, in his ninth year on the ballot, received 69.8 percent of the vote. For more on his candidacy here is my report.

Trevor Hoffman (more below) and Curt Schilling were the only others with over 50 percent of the vote.

FIRST TIME VOTE GETTERS

Trevor Hoffman was 34 votes short on his first ballot. Hoffman is second all-time with 601 saves. From 1995 to 2009 he failed to record 30 saves once when he threw nine innings in 2003. That’s 14 times in 15 years that he hit 30 saves. He had an 88.8 percent conversion rate for his career.

Jim Edmonds, Nomar Garciaparra and Mike Sweeney will not be on the ballot next year.

UPWARD MOVERS

Barry Bonds picked up 44.3 percent of the vote. He had been under 37 percent each of the last three years.

Roger Clemens picked up 45.2 percent of the vote. He was up about 7.7 percent too. Here are the upward movers listed by the percentage of vote they gained compared to 2014.

18.4 Mike Mussina

16.4 Edgar Martinez

15.9 Jeff Bagwell

15.8 Alan Trammel

14.8 Tim Raines

13.1 Mike Piazza

13.1 Curt Schilling

8.0 Fred McGriff

7.7 Roger Clemens

7.5 Barry Bonds

 

Finally, I belong to the IBWAA - The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. Here is our vote.