The Baseball Hall of Fame vote for 2015 elected four new members to Cooperstown, with Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio all making the cut and now those players will be enshrined in upstate New York over the summer.
This is the first time since 1955 that four players were selected in one year and it came on the first ballot for Johnson, Martinez and Smoltz, while Biggio was on his third chance. Biggio nearly made it last season and fell a couple votes short and now he is in, while Johnson made it in while appearing on 534 of 549 ballots.
Johnson was a shoe in along with Martinez, as Johnson ended up with a 97.3 voting percentage, one of the top 10 of all time. Martinez was on over 90 percent of the ballots to easily make it in and he comes in after finishing over 100 over .500 for his career, going 219-100 during his run with a number of teams. Smoltz made it in a year after his former Atlanta Braves teammates Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, while Biggio made it in on his third try.
The Cooperstown ceremony will be on July 26 and it has been over 50 years since the Hall elected four players at once. According to ESPN.com, Mike Piazza did not make it, coming up 28 votes short, while controversial names Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds finished 206 and 202 votes.
