Scott Rolen vacuumed almost every ball that got hit in his direction in a 17-year major-league career spent with four teams, including the Phillies.
Tuesday night, he reeled in enough votes to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
In his sixth year on the ballot, Rolen received 76.3% of the vote from nearly 400 longstanding members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, narrowly surpassing the three-quarters majority required for election, the Hall of Fame announced. He will be the 18th third baseman to be inducted after a remarkably meteoric rise in balloting from 10.2% in 2018 to 17.2% in 2019, 35.3% in 2020, 52.9% in 2021, and 63.2% in 2022.
