HOF Results are in

Monday, January 12 2009 @ 02:27 PM EST

Contributed by: John Northey

And the winners are... Rickey Henderson (94.8%) and Jim Rice (76.4%).

Via MLB's site we get the following results - 405 votes needed to make it.  + indicates they increased vs last year, - indicates they dropped in percent voted, -- indicates first time on ballot.

Very Happy Guys...
--Rickey Henderson: 511 out of 539 (28 idiots out there)
+Jim Rice: 412 - 7 over what was required

Close but no cigar...
+Andre Dawson: 67.0% - 361 votes, needed 44 more
+Bert Blyleven: 62.7% - 338 votes, needed 67 more

Need work to get there...
+Lee Smith: 44.5% - 240 votes
+Jack Morris: 44.0% - 237 votes

Will take a long time to get there...
-Tim Raines: 22.6% - 122 votes
-Mark McGwire: 21.9% - 118 votes

Hope the vet committee likes you...
-Alan Trammell: 17.4% - 94 votes
-Dave Parker: 15.0% - 81 votes
-Don Mattingly: 11.9% - 64 votes
-Dale Murphy: 11.5% - 62 votes
+Harold Baines: 5.9% - 32 votes

So long and thanks for all the memories...
+Tommy John: 31.7% - 171 votes, final time on ballot
--Mark Grace: 4.1% - 22 votes
--David Cone: 3.9% - 21 votes
--Matt Williams: 1.3% - 7 votes
--Mo Vaughn: 1.1% - 6 votes
--Jay Bell: 0.4% - 2 votes
--Jesse Orosco: 0.2% - 1 votes

Don't let the door hit you on the way out...
Ron Gant, Dan Plesac, Greg Vaughn - 0 votes each

Next year will have the 11 guys between 5 and 74.9% (not counting Tommy John who has reached the 15 year limit) plus Roberto Alomar, Barry Larkin, Fred McGriff, and a few other guys who cracked 10 years of service such as Ellis Burks, Greg Colbrunn, Andres Galarraga, Eric Karros, Ray Lankford, Edgar Martinez (sorry, he ain't getting in), Mark McLemore, David Segui, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile, Kevin Appier, and Pat Hentgen.  Some of those guys probably won't even make the HOF ballot cut but those appear to be the biggest guys available for them to debate, thus a ballot of no more than 11 returning players and 15 new guys = 26 total on the ballot.  I'm betting on the first guy with a Jays cap getting elected along with an ex-Expo in Dawson next year.  Larkin will get in the next year along with Blyleven.  McGriff, Galarraga, and maybe Edgar Martinez, Robin Ventura, and/or Todd Zeile will crack the 5% needed to stick on the ballot.

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