As per usual, the Baseball Hall of Fame announcement show took two hours to ramp up before they finally announced the balloting results. You can see Ryan Thibodaux’s invaluable public-ish ballot tracker here, but it was unclear whether the leaders, Scott Rolen and Todd Helton, had enough to squeak in.
Calling it! The pre-results portion of our program is now complete at 207 ballots. Here's where the candidates stand: pic.twitter.com/Kz8ymSNB5R
Prior to the ballot announcement, we found out that former Cubs slugger Fred McGriff had been elected on the Contemporary Era ballot.