The National Baseball Hall of Fame will welcome David Ortiz as part of its class of 2022.
The Baseball Writers' Association of America's decisions were announced on Tuesday, and the official induction ceremony will occur on Sunday, July 24 from Cooperstown, New York.
A player needs to land on 75 percent of total writer ballots to get in. Joel Sherman of MLB Network and the New York Post provided the figures, with Ortiz getting in as a first-ballot Hall of Famer with 77.9 percent of the vote.
Joel ShermanDavid Ortiz is the lone Hall of Famer, getting in by 11 votes (77.