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#Rockies Todd Helton gets The Call to the Hall of Fame.

Per the BBWAA: The average ballot in the 2024 election contained 7.00 names, up from 5.86 last year, with 24.4 percent of the voters using all 10 slots, up from 13.9 a year ago. There were no blank ballots submitted.

New from me: 5 things we learned from the Hall of Fame election: Beltré’s big night, Mauer power and more theathletic.com/5221736/2024/0…

Mild upset in #HOF forecasting world: By RMSE, the most accurate projections this year belonged to Adam Dore's naive Flip Rate model! Reigning champ Jason Sardell had the lowest median error, however.

Happening right now in Cooperstown! It’s the Hall of Fame press conference with Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer. Live on ⁦MLB Network⁩

"We're at 75% today ... We're at 80% — I was about to block her from my cell phone, but she's lucky I love her so much." 75%? 80%? Such modesty from Beltré!

Our pal Jason Sardell is the guest on today's Effectively Wild!

We just added the tenth post-announcement ballot to the Tracker. Included are two first-time voters and the third known Beltré-only ballot. Scroll down past the pre-announcement ballots to view the post-announcement section: tracker.fyi The BBWAA will release the big

Incredibly sad news: former Tampa Tribune & Tampa Bay Times columnist Martin Fennelly, 65, passed away Friday from a heart attack. Martin was not only the best writer I ever knew, but the smartest, funniest & most compassionate person as well. RIP 💔

Love this: Billy Wagner responded to his HOF miss by showing young players how to handle a gut-punch.

Today we are publishing 303 Hall of Fame ballots. That represents 78.7% of the votes cast, and includes 90 ballots that had not previously been published. bbwaa.com/24-hof-ballots/

👀 From John Shea Las Vegas mayor: A’s should ‘stay in Oakland,’ Fisher’s plan ‘doesn’t make sense’ sfchronicle.com/sports/athleti… via San Francisco Chronicle

The Oakland A’s were killed by greed. Do not allow the people responsible for this to spin it any other way. John Fisher did not have to move this team. Major League Baseball and its owners did not need to be complicit in it. This was a choice. A wrong one. History will sneer.