by Dean Boerner | Sports Editor
Earlier this month, 440 members of the Baseball Writer’s Association of America (BBWAA) voted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame former outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. and former catcher Mike Piazza. Griffey (99.3 percent) and Piazza (83.0 percent) both surpassed the necessary 75 percent threshold for automatic induction into the Hall, while former first baseman Jeff Bagwell (71.6 percent) and former outfielder Tim Raines (69.8 percent) both narrowly missed entrance in their sixth and ninth years on the ballot respectively.
The 2016 class of Griffey and Bagwell has been mostly met with approval by fans and experts alike, but the most controversial element of baseball’s Hall of Fame remains saliently unresolved.