For the first time since 1960, there will be no new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
No player on the Hall’s 2021 BBWAA ballot reached the 75 percent threshold needed for enshrinement in Cooperstown. The results of the writer’s voting were announced by Hall of Fame president Tim Mead on MLB Network on Tuesday night. The leading vote-getter was controversial pitcher Curt Schilling, who was named on 71.1 percent of the ballots, 16 votes shy of the minimum needed for selection. Schilling was followed by all-time home run leader Barry Bonds’ (61.8 percent) and 354-game winner Roger Clemens (61.6) in the voting. All three former All-Stars were in their ninth year of eligibility on the ballot, leaving them one more chance next winter. Players get 10 shots at enshrinement via the writers’ voting before moving on to consideration by one of the Hall’s various era-based veterans committees.
Former Indians Omar Vizquel, 49.1% and Manny Ramierez, 28.2%, were also up for induction but failed to improve their standing with the voters.