After weeks of speculation and PED debates, the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame were introduced earlier this week. Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. will be inducted in July and Mariners and Mets fans will celebrate as we did with Pedro Martinez in 2015. However, there’s a Red Sox icon that fell off the ballot this year: Nomar Garciaparra.
This was Garciaparra’s second year on the ballot, receiving 30 of 549 votes on his first one. To the average Red Sox nation member or even any baseball fan, it was kind of obvious that Garciaparra wasn’t going to be a Hall of Famer.