Jeff Kent, the best hitting second baseman of the San Francisco Giants era, failed to get 75% of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in this tenth and final year of his eligibility on the ballot. Kent hit .297/.368/.535 with 175 home runs in exactly 900 regular season games for the Giants, racking up 30.9 fWAR. Unfortunately, he was on the same team as Barry Bonds, so his candidacy had to die.
The baseball writers have been consistent with their position that STEROID GUYS shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame —
— have been mostly consistent with their position that players who saw success in the steroid era and did not rally their hometown teams after national tragedies should not receive election on their ballots.