HOUSTON -- Their first year on the Hall of Fame ballot will be the last for former Astros stars Lance Berkman and Roy Oswalt.
Berkman and Oswalt, two key players in the Astros' rise to National League power in the mid-2000s, both appeared on less than 5 percent of balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, released Tuesday, and will fall off the ballot.
The BBWAA elected four players to the Baseball Hall of Fame: pitchers Mike Mussina, Roy Halladay and Mariano Rivera and designated hitter/third baseman Edgar Martinez. They'll join closer Lee Smith and outfielder/DH Harold Baines, both of whom were elected by the Today's Game Era Committee in December, in being inducted in Cooperstown, N.