2025 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2025 will be conducted according to the rules most recently amended in 2022. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) will vote by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with the results announced in January.

Inductees, if any, will be honored in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, July 27, 2025.

BBWAA ballot

The following players will appear on the 2025 ballot. There were 14 players carried over from the 2024 ballot,^[1] who garnered at least 5% of the vote and were still eligible for election, as well as a selection of players whose last major league appearance was in 2019, played at least 10 seasons of Major League Baseball, and chosen by a screening committee.^[2] This will be the final ballot for Billy Wagner.

Hall of Fame voting results for class of 2025 Player Votes Percent Change Year Billy Wagner 10th Andruw Jones 8th Carlos Beltrán 3rd Alex Rodriguez 4th Manny Ramirez 9th Chase Utley 2nd Omar Vizquel 8th Bobby Abreu 6th Jimmy Rollins 4th Andy Pettitte 7th Mark Buehrle 5th Francisco Rodríguez 3rd Torii Hunter 5th David Wright 2nd

Key      Elected to the Hall of Fame on this ballot (named in bold italics).      Elected subsequently, as of 2024[update] (named in plain italics).      Renominated for the 2026 BBWAA election by adequate performance on this ballot and has not subsequently been eliminated.      Eliminated from annual BBWAA consideration by poor performance or expiration on subsequent ballots.      Eliminated from annual BBWAA consideration by poor performance or expiration on this ballot. † First time on the BBWAA ballot. * Eliminated from annual BBWAA consideration by poor performance on this ballot (not expiration). L-R: Félix Hernández, Dustin Pedroia, CC Sabathia, and Ichiro Suzuki are expected to debut on the ballot this year

Players who are eligible to appear on the ballot for the first time are:^[3][4][5]

Classic Baseball Committee

The Classic Baseball Era Committee will meet at the Winter Meetings in December 2024 to consider the election of eight players, managers, executives, pioneers and/or umpires who made their greatest impact on the game through 1979.^[6]

Ford C. Frick Award

The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball" and has been presented annually since 1978. The 2025 award will be a composite ballot of local and national voices, as per the rules most recently amended in 2023.^[7]

BBWAA Career Excellence Award

The BBWAA Career Excellence Award honors a baseball writer (or writers) "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and is presented during Hall of Fame Weekend by that year's President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). The award is voted upon annually by the BBWAA.

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