MLB candidates for HOF induction: who gets in??

keets

There are some good names on the list so I wonder who will get in?? Several of the payers stand-out for me but no one strikes me as a shoe-in first ballot. Tell me what you think.

Al H.

Chris Carpenter
Johnny Damon
Livan Hernandez
Orlando Hudson
Aubrey Huff
Andruw Jones
Chipper Jones
Jason Isringhausen
Carlos Lee
Brad Lidge
Hideki Matsui
Kevin Millwood
Jamie Moyer
Scott Rolen
Johan Santana
Jim Thome
Omar Vizquel
Kerry Wood
Carlos Zambrano

Time4aGansett

Chipper isn't a shoe in?

JoeBanzai

Thome should be a no brainer.

grote15

Chipper and Thome are stone cold mortal locks.

grote15

Guerrero and Hoffman got very close last time.

keets

I would think that Jones and Thome are as close to shoe-in's as you'd expect, but I stop and remind myself who's doing the voting. just as there are voters who will hold out and no one gets a unanimous vote there are some guys who think "not on the first ballot" and hold out.

it's a bad system.

dallasactuary

Chipper should sail in easily, and I'm sure he will. Thome should get in, but with a lower % than Jones. After that, nobody on that list is a HOFer. Andruw Jones and Scott Rolen are close - Rolen looked like a lock at age 29 - and it wouldn't bother me terribly if they got in, but they don't deserve to.

garnettstyle

Pathetic

ernie11

Chipper, Thome, Guerrero and Hoffman.

BaltimoreYankee

I think Carlos Zambrano is a lock.

keets

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Chipper Jones (82%)
Vlad Guerrero (78%)
Jim Thome (76%)

Hoffman would be in if it was for April - August. Close but no cigar for me since I feel like he fell apart down the stretch every year (I perennially owned him in rotisserie baseball).

1951WheatiesPremium

El Caballo was awesome but I fear he will suffer the same fate as Albert Belle (who should be in already).