Bobby Abreu 4 7.55%

Barry Bonds 28 52.83%

Mark Buehrle 4 7.55%

A.J. Burnett 0 0%

Roger Clemens 34 64.15%

Michael Cuddyer 0 0%

Dan Haren 0 0%

LaTroy Hawkins 5 9.43%

Todd Helton 12 22.64%

Tim Hudson 6 11.32%

Torii Hunter 19 35.85%

Andruw Jones 14 26.42%

Jeff Kent 5 9.43%

Andy Pettitte 9 16.98%

Aramis Ramirez 0 0%

Manny Ramirez 22 41.51%

Scott Rolen 7 13.21%

Curt Schilling 36 67.92%

Gary Sheffield 14 26.42%

Sammy Sosa 19 35.85%

Nick Swisher 0 0%

Shane Victorino 0 0%

Omar Vizquel 6 11.32%

Billy Wagner 8 15.09%

Barry Zito 3 5.66%

None reach the standard of HOF induction 2 3.77%

Todd Helton wouldn't be as bad as Harold Baines, but it would be one of the least deserving inductions of the last 40 years.
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Schilling deserves it
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The only things Schilling deserves are the shrunken testicles he likely has and the loss of every cent he made while playing baseball he endured with his video game company.
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Schilling is a weird case.

If you look at only the numbers you can say that he gets in due to his WAR, because his counting stats are not great. However, he had a weird bump in productivity during the height of the steroid era when he should have been entering the decline years of his career, including 28.6 WAR (36% of his career total) from ages 35-38.

At the same time, one could potentially invoke the morality clause against Schilling, and given his hypocritical business practices and the past example of guys like Palmeiro, I can't say I'd be surprised if he was using despite his vocal protestations against PEDs, especially given how he defied the aging curve.
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Sammy Sooser
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How do you know what was pre-roid?
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I think it's hard to invoke the morality clause unless a player has been convicted of a felony, or committed a harmful act against the sport (gambling).

Speaking of Schilling's business practices, Harmon Killebrew had some well-publicized business failures, too. I think that's human, they failed. I don't see it as a morality issue.

Schilling, for what it's worth, was the 2001 recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award.

If you want to make an argument that Schilling is guilty of 'hate speech'; I'll listen.

But I heard Jay Jaffe in a radio interview bring up Schilling tweeting about "Presidential election conspiracies" as if that has something to do with his character. I think that's a big-time reach.

I always hear about Schilling wearing a shirt about "lynching journalists" and I think it's blown out of proportion. Does anybody think he literally means that? The other thing I always hear is how incendiary Schilling's actions are. That he's going to influence some guy to cause physical harm to a journalist. That's reaching too thinking that people are swayed that easily to commit a crime.

I think Schilling had a HOF case on par with first-ballot HOF'r John Smoltz and he should have been in on the first ballot.
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It's the weight of everything with Schilling. If you are looking at what he's said after leaving the game, probably the most damning thing is the fact that he had articles taken down by Breitbart of all places for cozying up to and parroting the POV of some pretty toxic white nationalists.
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For me, it's Dan Haren.
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Bonds Clemons Jones Helton
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That's why I said if you had some evidence for hate speech, I'd listen. But all in all, he's a harmless idiot and regardless of what he says, I don't think he's literally hurting anyone.

The Athletic just documented Omar Vizquel for accusations of domestic violence. I think that's more morality clause worthy than what Schilling has said or written. Either way, I need a felony conviction to take it seriously, or an MLB suspension levied against a player. Otherwise, I'm just going to judge the player on his on-field achievements.
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Rob Neyer's article disagreeing on the statistical evidence...
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There should be a wing where people were in pace to be in the HOF but their career took a nose dive and name it after Roy Holiday
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Harold Baines has ruined the standard. There's some other questionable guys in there, but he's modern and recent and it's easy to say, "Well if Harold Baines is in..."
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Heh. They need to create a ‘Hall of very good’
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