Hall Of Fame Contemporary Era Committee Welcomes One New Player

The Baseball Hall of Fame Contemporary Era Committee has said 'no' to the faces of the steroid era, and elected just one new member to Cooperstown, and they did it unanimously: Welcome to the Hall, Fred McGriff.

Welcome to Cooperstown, Fred McGriff! https://t.co/SD7Qt6xei4 pic.twitter.com/KBrT6mVUJ4
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) December 5, 2022

Congratulations to Fred McGriff 👏

The newly-elected Hall of Famer joined us on #MLBTonight after learning he was headed to the @baseballhall! pic.twitter.com/iih7VvVf8v
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) December 5, 2022

Players needed at least 12 votes from the 16-person committee to get in. Jon Heyman brings us the final vote tally, and as he notes, widely-suspected PED users Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens finished well short, and are going to find it awfully difficult to make their way into the Hall in the future after results like these.

Results of the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Ballot (12 votes needed for election): Fred McGriff (16 votes, 100.0%); Don Mattingly (8 votes, 50%); Curt Schilling (7 votes, 43.8%); Dale Murphy (6 votes, 37.5%); Belle, Bonds, Clemens and Palmeiro each received fewer than 4
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 5, 2022

The Crime Dog was on 100% of the ballots, getting 16 votes.

Don Mattingly: 8 votes, 50% of ballots
Curt Schilling: 7 votes, 43.8%
Dale Murphy: 6 votes, 37.5%
Albert Belle, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro: <4 votes

McGriff was always one of the 'good guys' in the game; he hit 493 HR with 1,550 RBIs in his storied 19-year career mainly with the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves and Tampa Bay Rays. He was a 5-time all-star and has a World Series ring from his time with the Braves in 1995.

Palmeiro joins Bonds and Clemens in the PED group, while Schilling has been shunned by both baseball writers and this committee due to his extreme political beliefs and dangerous hate speech.

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