{"id":57456,"date":"2023-01-26T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57456"},"modified":"2023-01-26T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:45:21","slug":"todd-helton-should-be-in-the-baseball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/01\/26\/todd-helton-should-be-in-the-baseball-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Helton Should Be in the Baseball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, MLB announced the <\/span>results<\/span> of the voting for the 2023 National Baseball Hall of Fame class<\/a> and one player was notably snubbed from induction as the only member inducted was Scott Rolen. 11 votes was the difference between Todd Helton being inducted into Cooperstown, leaving him on the ballot for at least one more year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, he did jump more than 20% in the voting from last year’s ballot, and every time a previous candidate was within the same amount of votes, they made it in eventually, according to <\/span>MLB<\/span> and <\/span>DNVR Rockies<\/span>. So, he will be a Hall of Famer at some point, but she should have been one this year. The two biggest reasons are his statistics and the fact that it remains a question as to why he is still not in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Todd Helton received 72.2% of votes and missed by 11 votes.<\/p>\n

Every player who has ever been that close to 75% has eventually made the Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

\u2014 DNVR Rockies (@DNVR_Rockies) January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n