Congratulations to Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio who were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I am honored that I was able to watch them playing.
Few interesting facts:
1. First time since 1955 (Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons and Dazzy Vance) that four players were inducted.
2. First time ever that three pitchers got inducted. Last year there were two (Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine) but it needs to go back all the way to 1992 to see multiple pitchers being inducted (Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers.)
3. Randy Johnson received 97.3%, the 8th highest all time. It may not mean much, but still says something about his dominant career. Seven players who received more percentage of votes were: Tom Seaver (98.9%), Nolan Ryan (98.7%), Cal Ripken Jr. (98.5%), Ty Cobb (98.2%), George Brett (98.2%), Hank Aaron (97.8%) and Tony Gwynn (97.6%). Greg Maddux is now the 9th with 97.2%. Maybe Jeter can push Maddux to the 10th. We'll see.
4. Out of curiosity, I added up all the votes, and got 4623. On average, voters marked 8.42 players. I did the same for 1992 (since it was conveniently open; see #2) I got 2609/430 = 6.07. It makes sense because people were keep saying 10 was not enough. [edit: according to Jay Jaffe of SI, it is the highest.] [edit2: according to another tweet of Jay Jaffe, 51% of the voters used all 10.]
5. According to tangotiger, Of BBWAA voters who show preference: 93% chose Smoltz over Mussina; 90% Smoltz over Schilling; 71% Schilling over Mussina. I personally think all of them are Hall of Famers.
6. Next year, Ken Griffey Jr. will be added to the candidates. Hopefully Moose gets better than 24.6% next year.
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