Curt Schilling watches the MLB game between the San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on August 3, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images)
The baseball Hall of Fame won’t have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits on-the-field or off for enshrinement in Cooperstown on this year s ballot.
Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were the closest in voting by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America released Tuesday, and the trio will have one more chance at election next year. It s the first time the BBWAA didn t choose anyone since 2013.
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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2001, file photo, San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds smiles as he begins to round the bases after he hit his 73rd home run of the season, against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a baseball game in San Francisco. The baseball Hall of Fame wonât have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits â on-the-field or off â for enshrinement in Cooperstown on this year s ballot. Curt Schilling, Bonds and Roger Clemens were the closest in voting by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America released Tuesday, and the trio will have one more chance at election next year. It s the first time the BBWAA didn t choose anyone since 2013. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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CLEVELAND For the first time since he joined the Hall of Fame ballot in 2018, former Indians shortstop Omar Vizquel did not see a jump in his vote total.
Vizquel received 197 of 401 votes cast (49.1 percent) by tenured members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, as announced Tuesday on MLB Network. In 2018, he earned 37 percent of the vote before jumping to 42.8 percent in ’19. When he received 52.6 percent of the vote in ‘20, it appeared as though he was on a steady climb to reach the 75 percent threshold within the next few years before this slight setback. Vizquel now has six more years to attempt to reach that mark.
For the first time since 2013, no player received enough votes to make it into Cooperstown. What were the surprises and disappointments and what does it say about the ballot?