Longtime major league third baseman Scott Rolen was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame by the BBWAA in the results of balloting announced Tuesday evening.
Rolen got 76.3 percent of the vote, five votes over the 75 percent required for induction.
Others who came close to induction: Todd Helton, with 72.2 percent and Billy Wagner, with 68.1 percent. Those two could be inducted in future years; most players who get that close are eventually inducted. The full list of votes is here.
Scott Rolen played 17 years in the major leagues, mostly with the Phillies (as shown above in 1997, when he won the NL Rookie of the Year award) and Cardinals, but he also spent time with the Reds and Blue Jays.