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This is my favorite ballot so far

Amazing ballot

@dszymborski.fangraphs.com What a beautiful ballot you’ve sent in, I certainly appreciate the time you spent on making your choices and the clear process of deciding HOFers. Even though I have a marginally smaller Hall than you (Excluding Pedroia and Buerhle), I really like the choices you made.

Just let everyone in!

The public-facing side of OneDrive appears to be down for the moment but they typically have it back up before long.

Seeing all the new voters and also Beltran already being +2 giving me a lot of confidence he’ll make it. Wish Beltran and Delgado could’ve gone in together.

Same here. This is pretty much my ballot. Maybe Rollins instead of Hamels.

Beautiful ballot.

My line for whether to induct PED players into the Hall is drawn between the formalized drug tests after 2004 and whether a player is suspended or not from the test results. Pettitte was never suspended, so he belonged to the group of Bonds and Clemens, unlike ARod who is suspended for PED usage.

Likeability definitely matters, but Santana would still be on the ballot this year if the ballot on his debut looked more like the 2024 ballot.

In terms of head-to-head merit, yes. In terms of votes, Santana competed with 18 guys who had enough merit to either get in the HOF or stay on the ballot long enough despite PEDs. Wright's debut had 8-11 such guys. That is a lot more room to throw a vote to a player like Wright.

I might feel Rollins over Wright but probably not. Best ballot i have seen yet.

Replace Pettitte with Jimmy Rollins. Outside of that ... this is the best and the closest "full ballot", to the ballot I would do.

This reminded me of what I wanted to look at: who the 20 new voters voted for last year: Beltran 18x Pettite & Utley 13x Jones 12x A-Rod 11x Manny 10x Abreu 6x Felix 4x Buehrle 3x Rollins & Wright 2x Pedroia & Vizquel & K-Rod 1x 9 had 10 vote ballots and all with 6x or fewer wil likely gain.