Slick\u002Dfielding third baseman Scott Rolen was elected to baseball\u0027s Hall of Fame on Tuesday with five votes to spare above the 75% needed.
“You don’t think about this. You think about doing the best you can,” Rolen said. “I never thought the Hall of Fame was going to be the answer.”
Rolen’s five-vote margin tied for the 12th-smallest among players elected by the writers and his 76.3 per cent of the vote was the 10th lowest. Rolen increased from 63.2 per cent last year and 10.2 per cent in his first ballot appearance in 2018..That became the lowest first-ballot percentage of a player later elected. The previous mark had been Duke Snider’s 17 per cent in 1970. Snider was voted in with 86.5 per cent in 1980.
Several others also saw large increases: Andruw Jones moved from 41.1 per cent to 58.1 per cent, Gary Sheffield from 40.6 per cent to 55, in his next-to-last possible appearance and Jeff Kent from 32.7 per cent to 46.5 in his final year. Kent can be considered by the contemporary baseball era committee in future years.Article content
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