The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has voted Barry Larkin into the Hall of Fame. A year ago - Larkin’s second year on the ballot - the shortstop received 62.1 percent of the votes. This time around, he received 86.4 percent of the votes. That’s a huge, huge jump - the biggest jump out of all the holdovers.
Hall Of Fame Voting: 2012 Vs. 2011
What about the rest of them, though? How did their 2012 results compare to their 2011 results? I have constructed a simple table, for your convenience. Here you are:
| Player | 2011 (%) | 2012 (%) | Change |
| Barry Larkin | 62.1 | 86.4 | 24.3 |
| Jeff Bagwell | 41.7 | 56.0 | 14.3 |
| Jack Morris | 53.5 | 66.7 | 13.2 |
| Alan Trammell | 24.3 | 36.8 | 12.5 |
| Tim Raines | 37.5 | 48.7 | 11.2 |
| Fred McGriff | 17.9 | 23.9 | 6.0 |
| Lee Smith | 45.3 | 50.6 | 5.3 |
| Don Mattingly | 13.6 | 17.8 | 4.2 |
| Edgar Martinez | 32.9 | 36.5 | 3.6 |
| Larry Walker | 20.3 | 22.9 | 2.6 |
| Dale Murphy | 12.6 | 14.5 | 1.9 |
| Rafael Palmeiro | 11.0 | 12.6 | 1.6 |
| Mark McGwire | 19.8 | 19.5 | -0.3 |
Mark McGwire was the only holdover to lose support, and he barely lost any support. All of the rest of them gained, with Bagwell, Morris, Trammell and Raines gaining in the double digits, along with Larkin.
Of course, next year’s going to be something of a mess. We know that. We can prepare for that. But things are looking good for Bagwell and Morris. Raines, too. Trammell has a ways to go in a short amount of time - this was his 11th year on the ballot - but that’s an encouraging gain for him.
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