Scott Rolen was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday with five votes to spare. Rolen appeared on 297 of 389 ballots cast (76.3%) by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. A player needed 292 votes (75%) for election.
Rolen is the 18th third baseman elected to the Hall of Fame and only the seventh since the expansion era started in 1961 to be voted in by the BBWAA, joining Brooks Robinson (1983), Mike Schmidt (1995), George Brett (1999), Paul Molitor (2004), Wade Boggs (2005) and Chipper Jones (2018).
But how does Rolen compare with the six other expansion-era inductees?