Griffey elected to Hall with highest percentage, Piazza in

Griffey’s now official Hall of Fame, 22-year career included a slash line of.284/.370/.538, 630 home runs (6th All-Time), 1,836 RBI (15th All-Time), 13 All-Star Games, 10 Gold Gloves (10 straight from 1990-1999), seven Silver Slugger Awards, four American League home run crowns and a unanimous AL MVP award in 1997.

He was joined in selection by legendary Mets catcher Mike Piazza, another lethal slugger. He has indicated privately that he plans to wear a Mariners cap on his Hall of Fame plaque.

After 2004, Griffey was only able to reach 30 home runs two more times. Piazza made it on his fourth-time chance. Clemens has denied using performance-enhancing drugs, and Bonds said he never knowingly took any banned substances.

For what it’s worth, I did not vote for Piazza.

Jeff Bagwell fell just short of election.

Sanford native Tim Raines, who was in his ninth year of eligibility, missed the cut and will have one more year left of eligibility. Only because, it’s been up for a long time and it’s quite a shock more than anything.

In the final year of his contract, Griffey was on the trade block. Ken Griffey Jr. seems assured of e… A player needs to be named on 75 percent of the ballots to gain election. The identities of the three writers who did not vote for Griffey was not immediately known. Nobody else offered as many home runs or a higher OPS (.922) from the demanding position, and his 140 wRC+ ranks second behind Buster Posey. Griffey led the AL in home runs four times and in total bases and intentional walks twice apiece. Apologies to them, but they weren’t the most interesting candidates on the ballot this year. Piazza admitted using androstenedione early in his career, before the substance was banned by baseball, but he denies ever using steroids. Like Piazza, there’s no question of his HOF credentials.

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Never before had 99 percent of the Hall of Fame voters agreed on one player. Bagwell will surely get in 2017 as will Tim Raines who shot up from 55% to 69.8%. In each of the 2002, 2003 and 2004 seasons, Griffey played fewer than 85 games. I know how hard it is to just be in there and how many players I played with throughout my career and won’t get this phone call. Clearly he’s on the track to Cooperstown. The situation was that I had been getting a lot of inquiries from the pros about his health and what type of personality he had, so I had pretty much daily contact with Ken his senior year.

The Mariners brought him back in 2009, and he helped the team to an 85-77 record – one of three times the team has had a winning record since 2003. McGwire’s candidacy is dead, as this was his 10 season on the ballot.

As for Clemens and Bonds, their stock went up, too. “I thought to myself that we might be just looking at the flawless baseball player”. “It wasn’t that I needed to jump out and surprise people”. They both received in excess of the 75% of the required vote. I might change my mind. Both will be given serious consideration moving forward.

Ex-Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell received 40.9 per cent of the vote. Maybe these three were determined to make sure Griffey would not be the first.

Former Yankees ace Mike Mussina had a huge increase, going from 25 percent a year ago to 43 percent on this ballot.