The Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker is illuminating the voting process, not spoiling it. emmabaccellieri on how NotMrTibbs and his team are improving the conversation
for names like Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz. Add those factors to a voting process that is already much scrutinized and increasingly sour—and, voilà, you have the experience of the last six weeks. The discourse started burning on Nov. 27, with the first publicly announced ballot of the winter, and new ones have been shared at an average rate of three per day to keep fueling the fire.
Ortiz, in his first year on the ballot, is currently tracking toward induction, though he could slip as more votes are counted. His case will continue to be debated in the two weeks before the results are announced on Jan. 25.Which, sure, can get a bit tiresome. The same arguments crop up again and again. There are still two weeks left until the results will be announced on Jan.
Even just a decade ago, the scope of the discussion was considerably more limited, with public ballots harder to find and far less detail to look at. What changed? Mostly the enterprising work of the team behind the. It’s transformed how the election information is shared—which has, in turn, transformed how baseball thinks and talks about the voting process.
Started in 2013 by a Bay Area–based fan named Ryan Thibodaux, the tracker collects every ballot that is released publicly and maintains them in a spreadsheet, noting each candidate’s vote total, his change from the year before and other details. It’s a big part of what allows the current discussions to happen with such specificity and, by extension, with such vigor—not just to poke at individual ballots but to place them in context.
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