Baseball Hall of Fame: How the voting broke down

One player is celebrating his upcoming enshrinement into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Some will live to see another round of voting by baseball’s writers. For others, it’s one short-lived appearance on the ballot.

Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was the only player “to receive support from more than 75% of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America electorate on the 2022 ballot, meaning Ortiz will be inducted despite his own ties to performance-enhancing drugs,” writes Kerry Crowley of this news organization.

San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds fell short for the 10th and final time. “The 66% of votes Bonds earned in 2022 marked his best showing yet, but the former Giants left fielder’s Hall of Fame fate will now be decided by a committee,” Crowley writes.

“The 66% of votes Bonds earned in 2022 marked his best showing yet, but the former Giants left fielder’s Hall of Fame fate will now be decided by a committee.”

Players who receive less than 5 percent of the votes will be dropped from the following year’s ballot.

Here’s how the votes broke down in 2022:

x-David Ortiz 307 votes (77.9 percent)
Barry Bonds 260 (66)
Roger Clemens 257 (65.2)
Scott Rolen 249 (63.2)
Curt Schilling 231 (58.6)
Todd Helton 205 (52)
Billy Wagner 201 (51)
Andruw Jones 163 (41.1)
Gary Sheffield 160 (40.6)
x-Alex Rodriguez 135 (34.3)
Jeff Kent 129 (32.7)
Manny Ramirez 114 (28.9)
Omar Vizquel 94 (23.9)
Sammy Sosa 73 (18.5)
Andy Pettitte 42 (10.7)
x-Jimmy Rollins 37 (9.4)
Bobby Abreu 34 (8.6)
Mark Buehrle 23 (5.8)
Torii Hunter 21 (5.3)

Received fewer than 20 votes (less than 5):

x-Joe Nathan 17 (4.3)
Tim Hudson 12 (3)
x-Tim Lincecum 9 (2.3)
x-Ryan Howard 8 (2)
x-Mark Teixeira 6 (1.5)
x-Justin Morneau 5 (1.3)
x-Jonathan Papelbon 5 (1.3)
x-Prince Fielder 2 (0.5)
x-A.J. Pierzynski 2 (0.5)
x-Carl Crawford 0 (0)
x-Jake Peavy 0 (0)

x-first year on ballot

Associated Press contributed to this report.