This year, again, I am using all ten spots. In my opinion, it’s pretty hard not to right now. Based on space, I have only left Bonds/Clemens on from those tied fairly directly to steroids. To me, their awards, stats, etc. are too exceptional to leave off.
The backup of players into the Hall over the last handful of years will unfortunately cause some players to fall off the list who otherwise wouldn't have. As I have said before, I don't believe you can ignore that time period so I am of the belief that we should be voting in the statistically deserving players, regardless...but it's ultimately not going to happen based on the requirements around the number of players that can be on a ballot, etc.
Who’s to blame? Most significantly, MLB for ignoring the steroids until they were forced to and for raking in the money along the way. But, I also blame a decent percentage of the Baseball Writers for continuing to think they are bigger than the game.
My 2015 MLB Hall of Fame vote is as follows:
Jeff Bagwell
Craig Biggio
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Randy Johnson
Jeff Kent
Pedro Martinez
Fred McGriff
Mike Piazza
John Smoltz
Smoltz is the tough one for me this year. I think there is a chance he misses in his first year of eligibility but I am pretty confident he ultimately will be voted into the Hall, next year at the latest.
My guess at players with >=60% of the vote this year (1/4/15):
Johnson 96%
Martinez 89%
Biggio 81%
Smoltz 78%
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Piazza 68%
Bagwell 62%
Bonds 60%
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