2025 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

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2025 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees2
via BBWAATBA
via Classic Baseball Era Committee2
Total inductees348
Induction dateJuly 27, 2025 (scheduled)
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Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2025 will be conducted according to the rules most recently amended in 2022. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) will vote by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, and the results will be announced on January 21.

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A meeting of the Classic Baseball Era committee—one of a group of three rotating bodies generally referred to as the Veterans Committee and whose structure was amended in April 2022—was held in December 2024 to consider players from the era before 1980 who no longer appear on the BBWAA ballot. Dave Parker and Dick Allen were elected from the Veterans Committee ballot. [1]

The inductees will be honored in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, July 27, 2025.

BBWAA ballot

The list of players appearing on the BBWAA ballot was released on November 18, 2024. There were 14 players carried over from the 2024 ballot, [2] [3] who garnered at least 5% of the vote and were still eligible for election, as well as 14 players whose last major league appearance was in 2019, played at least 10 seasons of Major League Baseball, and were chosen by a screening committee. [4] This will be the final ballot for Billy Wagner. [5]

Players who met first-year eligibility requirements but were not selected by the screening committee for inclusion on the ballot were: Matt Albers, Yonder Alonso, Gordon Beckham, Jerry Blevins, Peter Bourjos, Clay Buchholz, Melky Cabrera, Andrew Cashner, Welington Castillo, Rajai Davis, Daniel Descalso, Ian Desmond, Lucas Duda, Zach Duke, Mike Dunn, Marco Estrada, David Freese, Luke Gregerson, Carlos Gómez, Jeanmar Gómez, Jeremy Hellickson, David Hernandez, Nick Hundley, Chris Iannetta, Edwin Jackson, Shawn Kelley, Mike Leake, Francisco Liriano, Kendrys Morales, Pat Neshek, Steve Pearce, Martín Prado, Mark Reynolds, Clayton Richard, Tyson Ross, Fernando Salas, Tony Sipp, Carlos Torres, Mark Trumbo, Jason Vargas, and Bobby Wilson. [6] [7] [8]

Classic Baseball Committee

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L-R: Classic Baseball Committee electees Dick Allen and Dave Parker.

The Classic Baseball Era Committee met at the Winter Meetings in December 2024 to consider the election of eight players who made their greatest impact on the game through 1979. [9] The full ballot was announced on November 4, 2024, and the voting was held on December 8. Of the eight candidates, only Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Dave Parker were still alive. [10]

CandidateCategoryVotesPercent
Dave Parker Player1487.5%
Dick Allen Player1381.3%
Tommy John Player743.8%
Ken Boyer Player<5
John Donaldson Player<5
Steve Garvey Player<5
Vic Harris Manager<5
Luis Tiant Player<5

The 16-member committee (of which, 75% or 12 votes were required for election) consisted of the following individuals: [11]

Each member of the committee could vote for a maximum of three players. [12]

Ford C. Frick Award

The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball" and has been presented annually since 1978. The 2025 award will be a composite ballot of local and national voices, as per the rules most recently amended in 2023. [13] [14] The 2025 finalists, and the teams they are best known as broadcasters for, are: [15]

On December 11, 2024, the Hall of Fame declared Tom Hamilton as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. [16]

BBWAA Career Excellence Award

The BBWAA Career Excellence Award honors a baseball writer (or writers) "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and is presented during Hall of Fame Weekend by that year's President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). The award is voted upon annually by the BBWAA.

On December 10, 2024, the Hall of Fame announced Thomas Boswell as the recipient of the 2025 BBWAA Career Excellence Award. [17]

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