With the official announcement of the 2017 Hall of Fame ballot, it’s time to open the doors for the third year of SnakePit balloting. This uses the same qualification score - a 75% vote is necessary - as Cooperstown, but so far seems to have been tougher to get into. Over the previous two seasons, six players were elected into the real thing, but just half as many (Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and Ken Griffey Jr) to the SnakePit one. Will that change this year?
The ballot contains the same 19 new names as we added to the Cooperstown list this season, and the same total number (34) of possible choices.