We have been doing this since the days of Barbaro and Taylor Hicks. Since Pluto ceased to be a planet and Hank Aaron ceased to stand alone above Babe Ruth.
In January 2006, Bruce Sutter reached the Hall of Fame on his 13th shot. The splitter maven was the lone player to reach 75 percent of the Baseball Writers Association of America vote, though seven others on that ballot — including Jim Rice — eventually earned induction through various routes.
It was a grumble-heavy election by the standards of the day. Sutter was only the fourth relief pitcher to make the Hall and the first without a single start in his career.