How much juice can the National Baseball Hall of Fame hold? We're going to find out.
The sea change in the voting for the Hall of Fame can't be ignored. It first became apparent when Mike Piazza, long suspected of needing performance-enhancing drugs to slug more homers than any other catcher, got into Cooperstown with 83 percent of the vote in 2016.
Now the revolution is projected to continue in 2017.
The latest Hall of Fame class won't be revealed until January 18, but all the votes were in on December 31. And thanks to Ryan Thibodaux, the tireless Samaritan who aggregates Hall of Fame ballots, we already know how the votes are trending:
@ 172 ballots/~39.