Baseball reveals its next class of Hall of Famers in the dead of winter, providing a little bit of warmth to those anxiously awaiting spring training.
The votes of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America were due back on Dec. 31, and many writers already have released their ballots, including the three Tribune voters: Mark Gonzales, Teddy Greenstein and me.
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According to the latest results of the Hall of Fame tracker, a public service conducted by a die-hard fan named Ryan Thibodaux, the likely entrants in 2019 are Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina, all of whom were above the 75 percent threshold needed for induction as of Monday night.