2022 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 2020

Elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2022 will proceed according to the rules most recently amended in 2016. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) will vote by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with results expected to be announced in January.

Meetings of the Early Baseball Era Committee and Golden Days Era Committee—two of a group of four bodies generally referred to as the Veterans Committee—who consider players from the 1871–1949 and 1950–1969 eras, respectively, are planned for December 2021, having been postponed from December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Selected inductees to the Hall (if any) and other honorees composing the class of 2022 will be honored in ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York, in July 2022.

Ballot[]

The list of players appearing on the ballot is expected to be released in November, as in past years. There are 17 players being carried over from the prior year's ballot, who garnered at least 5% of the vote in 2021 balloting and are still eligible for election, along with an as-yet unknown number of players selected to appear on this ballot in their first year of eligibility, whose final major league appearance was in 2016.^[2]

Hall of Fame eligible players for class of 2022 ballot Player Votes Percent Change Year Curt Schilling 10th Barry Bonds 10th Roger Clemens 10th Scott Rolen 5th Omar Vizquel 5th Billy Wagner 7th Todd Helton 4th Gary Sheffield 8th Andruw Jones 5th Jeff Kent 9th Manny Ramirez 6th Sammy Sosa 10th Andy Pettitte 4th Mark Buehrle 2nd Torii Hunter 2nd Bobby Abreu 3rd Tim Hudson 2nd Alex Rodriguez 1st Carl Crawford 1st Prince Fielder 1st Ryan Howard 1st Tim Lincecum 1st Joe Nathan 1st David Ortiz 1st Jonathan Papelbon 1st Jake Peavy 1st A. J. Pierzynski 1st Jimmy Rollins 1st Mark Teixeira 1st

This will be the final ballot for Curt Schilling (left) and second ballot for Torii Hunter

Note: First-year players listed above are eligible to appear on the ballot; the list is unofficial until the ballot is formally released; the official ballot may contain more, less, or different first-year players, as decided by a selection committee.

This will be the final ballot for Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa.

Early Baseball Era Committee[]

The Early Baseball Era Committee is slated to meet to consider players from the 1871–1949 era. The committee was established in July 2016;^[3] this will be its first meeting to consider candidates for election to the Hall.

Golden Days Era Committee[]

The Golden Days Era Committee is slated to meet to consider players from the 1950–1969 era. The committee was established in July 2016;^[3] this will be its first meeting to consider candidates for election to the Hall.

Ford C. Frick Award[]

The 2022 Ford C. Frick Award will be officially presented on July 23 in an awards presentation in Cooperstown. According to the rules last amended in 2016, nominees in this balloting will be considered from the Broadcasting Beginnings category—"early team voices and pioneers of baseball broadcasting"—one of three categories considered on a rotating basis.^[3]

BBWAA Career Excellence Award[]

The 2022 BBWAA Career Excellence Award will also be officially presented on July 23 in Cooperstown, honoring a baseball writer "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing". The award was formerly named for J. G. Taylor Spink, longtime publisher of The Sporting News.^[4]

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