Hall of Fame Voting Reviewed

With the Hall elections complete I want to take a moment to look at the voting. As always there is something of interest within the voting patterns. The weak crop of first timers certainly helped as many players got a push forward.Each player is listed with the total number of votes received this year, the percentage this year and the change (up or down) with last year’s percentage listed (2012 from Nick Cafardo, 2011 votes from Baseball-Reference);Barry Larkin 495 (86.4% up from 62.1%)Larkin had the largest jump in voting for an inductee since Herb Pennock in 1947. The 86.4% is actually a good total ranking 40th of the 110 BBWAA inductees. Ken Rosenthal on MLB suggested that next year voters would vote for Jack Morris out of fear of being the voter who keeps him out.That seems to have been at work here for Larkin and in my opinion speaks poorly of the voters. If you feel a player does not belong, you should not feel “bullied” into voting for a player but be able to articulate ...