Along with children the world over writing out those letters to Santa, and Amazon, the Baseball Writers Association of America is doing its part to keep the U.S. Postal Service in business, with Hall of Fame ballots still going through traditional mail.
Voters have until Dec. 31 to have their submissions postmarked, but the Yeoman’s work of Ryan Thibodaux (aka Twitter’s @NotMrTibbs) is giving us an early indication of the fates of the 30 candidates.
It’s not a large swath, with as of this writing under 10 percent of the estimated 392 ballots having been made public.