Baseball Hall of Fame 2013 ballot breakdown

Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Kaduk and Dave Brown of Big League Stew look at the 22 worthy players from the National Baseball Hall of Fame's 2013 class and assess their chances of being elected on this ballot. The inductees will be announced Wednesday.

BBTF projections come from BaseballThinkFactory.org and are based on 105 ballots that already have been revealed by their voters.

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Rafael Palmeiro

Palmeiro could have been preparing for a special weekend in Cooperstown had he not been dumb enough to get caught with steroids after adamantly telling Congress the winter before that he had never used them. Alas, his most memorable highlight will always be stubbornly lying to Congress, which reduced his total of 569 career homers to nothing but an afterthought. Even if you wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt as a stats ... more
Rafael Palmeiro

Palmeiro could have been preparing for a special weekend in Cooperstown had he not been dumb enough to get caught with steroids after adamantly telling Congress the winter before that he had never used them. Alas, his most memorable highlight will always be stubbornly lying to Congress, which reduced his total of 569 career homers to nothing but an afterthought. Even if you wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt as a stats compiler in an era of offense, it's awfully hard to get past that sound byte. – KK

BLS vote: No
Will he get in this year: No
BBTF projection: N/A

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