HOF 2022: Torii Hunter and Joe Nathan.

[strumdatjag]

Torii Hunter barely made it over the 5% threshold to stay on the Hall of Fame  ballot next year. Joe Nathan was just below the required 5%. 
The steroid issue is less of an issue since Clemons, Bonds and Sosa didn’t make it in their last year for the writers to vote any of them in.   
Curt Schilling only got a little more than half of the votes, and claims it was due to his conservative political views.  If that is true, then it’s a shame.    
 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, strumdatjag said:

Curt Schilling only got a little more than half of the votes, and claims it was due to his conservative political views.  If that is true, then it’s a shame.    

Did he actually say that? If so, giant eyeroll.

Schilling came *this close* to gaining entry to Cooperstown last year with 71% of the vote. It's likely he would have made it this year but he literally asked to have his name withdrawn from further consideration after last year's vote.

So yeah, voters went ahead and... honored his request...

https://www.newsweek.com/curt-schilling-shuns-baseball-hall-fame-withdraws-name-ballot-1564704

[Rosterman]

Joe Nathan is one of the last GREAT relief pitchers.

 

[strumdatjag]

I don’t think Torii Hunter gets enough traction in future years.  Joe Nathan would have had slightly better odds if he got through this year 

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

3 hours ago, strumdatjag said:

Curt Schilling only got a little more than half of the votes, and claims it was due to his conservative political views.  If that is true, then it’s a shame.   

Although some forms of "conservatism" have developed in a direction such that certain people have different claims about fundamental truth and reality than others, I doubt the claim that "conservative" is the issue here.

Schilling has endorsed the lynching of journalists (and even if he claimed to be kidding, people really believing that is the kind of thing that threatens a free press); his public statements have casually compared people he doesn't like or agree with to Nazis, while he aligns himself with current white supremacists. Surely not everything that "Curt Schilling claims" is so egregious, but some things go beyond reasonable differences of political orientation.

This on top of the fact, as Brock stated, that he openly asked to be taken off the ballot. Perhaps less as a matter of principle than in the hope that committees could reconsider him for the Hall in the future without having seen him lose votes this year.