David Ortiz

Well, we may never see a Hall of Fame ballot like this ever again. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. For the past decade, we have had to deal with the annual debates about Player X and Y deserve to be inducted into Cooperstown despite their connections to PEDs. Some players from that era were able to breeze through on the first ballot – Ken Griffey, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, while others were off the ballot in one year. The whole thing can be exhausting, but at the same time this is part of the fabric of Major League Baseball. The steroid era is a part of their history, whether they want to acknowledge it or not. There is an entire generation of superstars that were in the public eye and baseball would prefer to ignore it. This class will be particularly inte...