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Ron Cook: Here's why I submitted another blank ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame

The Baseball Writers Association of America will reveal its voting results Tuesday night for the 2023 Hall of Fame class. There is a good chance that, for the second time in three years, no player will get the necessary 75% of the votes to be inducted. In 2022, only David Ortiz made the cut.

That tells me — a voter for 35 years — two things:

One, it is a relatively weak class of candidates. The eligible player with the best chance for induction is Scott Rolen. He was a nice player, to be sure. But a Hall of Famer?

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