My 2025 MLB Hall of Fame Ballot

 Since I have been using the "Importance Score" metric to evaluate the Stickball HOF for the past handful of seasons, I figured doing the same thing to the MLB HOF ballot would provide a good litmus test for how effective this made up metric actually is. As a reminder (or introduction) I calculate Importance Score using WAR/year and giving bonus points for MVP's, Cy Young Awards and World Series Rings. Generally speaking, any score in the double digits is something that I consider to be HOF worthy. Here's how this year's ballot looks:

Since MLB Hall voters are allowed 10 votes rather than just the five in HBD, my ballot for this year would be the following: 

1) Andy Pettitte

2) Dustin Pedroia

3) Ian Kinsler

4) Carlos Beltran

5) Mark Buehrle

6) CC Sabathia

7) Ben Zobrist

8) Jimmy Rollins

9) Felix Hernandez

10) Bobby Abreu

I have previously stated that I'd stay away from confirmed steriod users, so that along with the LONG list of worthy candidates on this year's ballot is why I started counting my votes at Pettitte rather than including A-Rod and Manny. That being said, if/when a Hardball player puts up those kinds of numbers I'd vote for them in a split second. It also tells me that the Importance Score (and the HOF cutoff being a double digit score) is just about right because the no-brainers end up clearly at the top and the guys that I often hear debates about (Tulo, Abreu, David Wright) are right in the middle with some just above and some just below the 10.0 cutoff.