The Baseball Writers voted David Ortiz into the Hall of Fame, the only player to pass the 75% threshold in 2022. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens failed to reach the Hall on their final ballot:

Ortiz is a different story, despite his own PED suspicions. A 2009 New York Times story reported that Ortiz was among 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing substances during a round of tests conducted in 2003. Those results were supposed to remain confidential and were done to see if the league had reached a threshold to conduct regular testing.

Ortiz has long denied that he used banned substances, and in 2016, commissioner Rob Manfred said the tests in question were inconclusive because “it was hard to distinguish between certain substances that were legal, available over the counter, and not banned under our program.”

Manfred added that during subsequent testing Ortiz “has never been a positive at any point under our program.”

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Congratulations to Ortiz! I think my Ortiz moment came many years ago when I took my nephew to a Red Sox game. Ortiz came up in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to win the game. I told my nephew that earlier in the year I was at a game Ortiz won with a walk-off home run. Of course, Ortiz let loose with another to win that day’s game. Ortiz recorded 20 walk-off RBI in his career. My stats on this go back to 1974, and only Rickey Henderson and Albert Pujols own more, at 21. Dusty Baker and Andre Dawson also have 20. That’s very good company.

Here are the votes. Scott Rolen polled 63.2%, just behind Bonds and Clemens. Curt Schilling is gone from the ballot at 58.6%. Todd Helton, 52% and Billy Wagner, 51% are the only other players to get at least 50% of the vote.