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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
So, again, a lot of 'politics' and who likes you and who doesn't.
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Adding to this, there's politics on both the writer's ballot and the commitee processes, which looks at the players the writers passed over.
C.C. Sabathia was probably not your typical first-ballot Hall of Famer, but he was well liked by the writers, so he's in the first try.
Curt Schilling has a much superior career to Sabathia, but he goes 10 years on the writer's ballot and doesn't get in because of non-baseball reasons.
In December of 2022, the Contemporary Era Committee has a chance to get Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens into the HOF after the writers passed over them. They both get less than four votes out of 16 total.
Instead, the Contemporary Era Committee votes in Fred McGriff because he's a good guy and everybody likes him!