Four former Major League greats were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday, and historically speaking, it's a large group.
Last year, three players made the Hall, and there have been at least three new members inducted every year since 2014, except for 2016, when there were two. And in the prior 10 ballots, 16 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame, so the doors of the Hall have been swung open a bit. It's certainly a far cry from 2013, when no players were deemed worthy of enshrinement.
This year, Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman all received more than the required 75% of the vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America.