Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent were not elected into the Hall of Fame. If you had been following Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall of Fame tracker, this probably doesn’t come as a shock to you. As of this morning, Kent sat at 16.8 percent of the vote while Bonds remained at 71.2 percent of the required 75 percent.
Kent had already been eliminated from induction this year, but Bonds was close enough that you could hope that the undisclosed votes could push him over the top. Then you remember that the people who don’t disclose their ballots tend to know less about baseball than the average fan.