Players Eligible for 2018 Hall of Fame Ballot

[MattEmily]

I thought it was time to post about this thread since we're a month away from the vote and I believe 2 months away from the announcement results.

Now this will only cover the players that are on the writers' ballot.

The ones that are marked in green will be on the ballot for the first time.

The ones that are marked in red are in danger of losing their chance to remain on the ballot due to being on the ballot for 14-15 years except for in the case of recent additions (prior to the 2015 election) who will only remain on the ballot for 10 years.

NOTE: due to a BB coding error I won't be using colors to denote which ones are first year and which ones are on the ballot for the last time.

NOTE: A player must be named on at least 75% of the ballots to be elected.
Players will be removed from future ballots if they are named on fewer than 5% of ballots.
Players will also be removed from future ballots if they've been on the ballot for 15 years (changed to 10 years prior to the 2015 election)

1. Guillermo Mota = starts the list of players who are on the ballot for the first time
2. Scott Podsednik
3. Brad Lidge
4. Brian Fuentes
5. Jason Isringhausen
6. Miguel Batista
7. Francisco Cordero
8. Carl Pavano
9. Jeff Suppan
10. Adam Kennedy
11. Hideki Matsui
12. Aubrey Huff
13. Jack Wilson
14. Ben Sheets
15. Carlos Lee
16. Kerry Wood
17. Kevin Millwood
18. Orlando Hudson
19. Livan Hernandez
20. Chris Carpenter
21. Omar Vizquel
22. Jamie Moyer
23. Carlos Zambrano
24. Johnny Damon
25. Johan Santana
26. Andruw Jones
27. Scott Rolen
28. Jim Thome
29. Chipper Jones = last player who is on the ballot for the first time
30. Manny Ramirez
31. Vladimir Guerrero
32. Billy Wagner
33. Trevor Hoffman
34. Gary Sheffield
35. Jeff Kent
36. Mike Mussina
37. Sammy Sosa
38. Curt Schilling
39. Barry Bonds
40. Roger Clemens
41. Larry Walker
42. Fred McGriff
43. Edgar Martinez

Source: https://www.baseball-reference.com/a...hof_2018.shtml