Baseball Hall of Fame: How you voted
CAREER SLUGGING PERCENTAGE: MIKE PIAZZA, .542
(min. 500 plate appearances)
Runner up: Darryl Strawberry, .520
Active leader: David Wright, .508
No Mets player has ever had a more powerful line-drive swing than Mike Piazza, who hit 220 homers and 193 doubles in his seven-plus seasons here. He batted .296 for the Mets and struck out far less than his closest competitor on the list, Darryl Strawberry.
Credit: AP
According to Newsday.com voters, only two players should be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year: Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio.
The results of an ongoing online vote have been tallied, and voters said "Yes" to just two of the 35 candidates on the ballot. To gain election to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a player must be named on at least 75 percent of all ballots cast by voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The official results will be announced on Wednesday. But we used the same 75 percent threshold for our poll:
| Yes votes | Yes % | No votes | No % | |
| Mike Piazza | 3,434 | 89.5 | 403 | 10.5 |
| Craig Biggio | 2,864 | 78.6 | 778 | 21.4 |
The rest of the results were mixed. Roger Clemens did the best, by far, of all players with a significant link to performance-enhancing drug use. The Jack Morris debate didn't seem to polarize our readers as much as it does many baseball writers. Don Mattingly still has a devoted fanbase. Heck, even former Yankees reliever Mike Stanton was able to secure at least six percent of the vote.
| Yes votes | Yes % | No votes | No % | |
| Curt Schilling | 1,296 | 60.2 | 857 | 39.8 |
| Tim Raines | 1,983 | 56.4 | 1,531 | 43.6 |
| Jeff Bagwell | 1,940 | 54.5 | 1,617 | 45.5 |
| Don Mattingly | 1,950 | 50.1 | 1,940 | 49.9 |
| Roger Clemens | 1,686 | 44 | 2,146 | 56 |
| Lee Smith | 1,503 | 43.3 | 1,970 | 56.7 |
| Jack Morris | 2,021 | 41.9 | 2,797 | 58.1 |
| Edgar Martinez | 1,391 | 39.6 | 2,119 | 60.4 |
| Barry Bonds | 1,408 | 35.7 | 2,532 | 64.3 |
| Dale Murphy | 1,867 | 32.7 | 3,838 | 67.3 |
| Fred McGriff | 1,091 | 31.7 | 2,349 | 68.3 |
| Kenny Lofton | 967 | 30.8 | 2,171 | 69.2 |
| Mark McGwire | 1,078 | 27.9 | 2,788 | 72.1 |
| Sammy Sosa | 570 | 27.2 | 1,524 | 72.8 |
| Bernie Williams | 974 | 26.9 | 2,653 | 73.1 |
| David Wells | 490 | 25.6 | 1,421 | 74.4 |
| Alan Trammell | 695 | 20.2 | 2,738 | 79.8 |
| Larry Walker | 672 | 20.1 | 2,667 | 29.9 |
| Rafael Palmeiro | 641 | 18.4 | 2,848 | 81.6 |
| Julio Franco | 365 | 11.5 | 2,803 | 88.5 |
| Sandy Alomar Jr. | 282 | 8.4 | 3,084 | 91.6 |
| Reggie Sanders | 178 | 6.2 | 2,686 | 93.8 |
| Mike Stanton | 105 | 6 | 1,651 | 94 |
During the official process, players who haven't reached at least a five percent threshold aren't included on the ballot for the following year. Here are the 10 players who failed to garner at least five percent for our vote:
| Yes votes | Yes % | No votes | No % | |
| Shawn Green | 149 | 4.8 | 2,978 | 95.2 |
| Steve Finley | 141 | 4.5 | 2,977 | 95.5 |
| Aaron Sele | 73 | 4.2 | 1,663 | 95.8 |
| Jose Mesa | 86 | 2.9 | 2,836 | 97.1 |
| Todd Walker | 49 | 2.9 | 1,625 | 97.1 |
| Jeff Conine | 88 | 2.8 | 2,080 | 97.2 |
| Roberto Hernandez | 81 | 2.7 | 2,970 | 97.3 |
| Ryan Klesko | 76 | 2.5 | 2,967 | 97.5 |
| Jeff Cirillo | 76 | 2.3 | 3,200 | 97.7 |
| Royce Clayton | 62 | 1.9 | 3,155 | 98.1 |
All of this raises the very serious question: Who the heck voted for Royce Clayton?
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