The results of the second stage of the annual Hall of Fame voting process will be announced Tuesday evening with the Baseball Writers' Association selections, and we can safely say not to expect any stunning news along the lines of what happened in December with the Today's Game Era committee.
In other words, we're not going to see a reunion of the 2005 White Sox with the elections of Jon Garland and Freddy Garcia.
The committee's election of Harold Baines, however, does raise an interesting question: How much does the BBWAA vote even matter if a 16-person committee is simply going to override those results in the future?