Omar Vizquel continued to make steps in the right direction in Hall of Fame voting, receiving nearly six percent more of the votes in his second year on the ballot than the first.
Vizquel received 182 of 425 votes cast (42.8 percent) by tenured members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, as announced Tuesday on MLB Network. The former Indians great jumped from the 36.9 percent of votes he earned last year (156 of 422) in his first year on the ballot. The progression is a positive sign for the shortstop, who has as many as eight more years to reach the 75 percent mark that's required for induction.