After a career tarnished by the use of performance-enhancing drugs, Barry Bonds was never considered a likely Hall of Fame inductee. After all, 75% of the voters must vote a player in, and Bonds has been lucky to even hover around the 50% mark.
However, Bonds managed to make some gains in the voting department this year. Bonds shot up almost 10% from where he was in 2015--from 44.3 to 53.8 in just one year. The trend comes at a time when baseball writers seem to be changing the steroid mentality, as we've seen with the rising polling numbers of Roger Clemens, another controversial candidate.