On his first try, 3,000 Hit Club member Adrian Beltre is a lock for a Hall of Fame induction ceremony this summer. The much-beloved Bartolo Colon, we're afraid, isn't going to make the 2024 Cooperstown cut.
How about the rest of the field? ESPN MLB experts Bradford Doolittle and David Schoenfield take a look at the candidacies of some of the leading vote-getters on the BBWAA ballot to date and weigh their Hall of Fame chances for this year -- and beyond.
Players are listed in order of their current balloting percentage, via Ryan Thibodaux's Hall of Fame tracker site.