Ten Years, No HOF Votes . . . Where is the love? – 2016 Update

After the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot results were announced, I thought it would be cool to take a historical look at those players who were on the standard BBWAA ballot at least once, and didn’t receive even one vote. I presented the respective “career category leaders” within that group.

I did this again with the 2013, 2014 and 2015 results. So now that the 2016 voting is completed, we have seven new “one and done” no-vote names to consider (Brad Ausmus, Troy Glaus, Mike Hampton, Luis Castillo, Randy Winn, Mike Lowell, Mark Grudzielanek). So here are the updated leaders (it turns out none of the 2016 crowd crashed the leaderboard):

Years played: 21 – Frank Tanana, Danny Darwin, Ron Fairly

Games: 2,442 – Ron Fairly

At-bats: 8,044 – Ruben Sierra

Runs: 1,249 – Ray Durham

Hits: 2,192 – Cecil Cooper

Homers: 355 – Greg Vaughn

RBI: 1,322 – Ruben Sierra

Stolen Bases: 620 – Otis Nixon

Walks: 1,263 – Ken Singleton

Batting Average: .302 – Sean Casey

On-base Percentage: .400 – Brian Giles

Slugging Percentage: .507 – Richie Sexson

OPS: .902 – Brian Giles 

OPS+: 132 – Brian Giles

Wins: 240 – Frank Tanana

ERA (starter): 3.07 – Bob Veale

ERA+ (starter): 117 – Gary Nolan

H/9 (starter): 7.03 – Sam McDowell

H/9 (reliever): 6.99 – Mitch Williams

K/9 (starter): 8.86 – Sam McDowell

K/9 (reliever): 8.74 – Dan Plesac

WHIP (starter): 1.145 – Gary Nolan

WHIP (reliever): 1.193 – Eddie Fisher

Appearances: 1,178 – Mike Stanton

Games Started: 616 – Frank Tanana

Saves: 326 – Roberto Hernandez

Innings pitched: 4,188.1 – Frank Tanana

Strikeouts: 2,773 – Frank Tanana

WAR (position players): 59.8 – Jim Wynn

WAR (pitchers): 55 Frank Tanana

Here is the updated possible 25-man roster from this group, based on highest WARs for each position. Congrats to Troy Glaus on securing one of the 3B slots.