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Ex-Blue Jay Rolen, Todd Helton awaiting Hall of Fame voting results

Scott Rolen and Todd Helton, who hit a combined 685 home runs in 4,285 major league games, are looking for one more trip around the bases.

Rolen and Helton are hopeful their chance for a curtain call will arrive Tuesday when Baseball Hall of Fame voting results are announced at 6 p.m. ET.

With none of the first-timers on the ballot expected to receive anywhere near the 75 percent of the vote - cast by eligible members of the Baseball Writers Association of America - necessary for induction, Rolen and Helton are the most likely candidates to avoid the second BBWAA shutout in the last three years.

Any candidates elected via the BBWAA ballot will be inducted along with Fred McGriff in a ceremony scheduled for July 23 in Cooperstown, N.Y. McGriff, who hit 493 career homers, was unanimously elected by the 16-member Contemporary Baseball Players Committee on Dec. 4.

Voting trends suggest Rolen and Helton will fall short of joining McGriff.

As of late Sunday night, Rolen and Helton - at 79.3 per cent apiece - were the only candidates polling at more than 75 per cent at Ryan Thibodaux's Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker, which tabulates the votes of the BBWAA members who have made their ballots public. Former closer Billy Wagner was just behind at 73.3 per cent.

But fewer than 50 per cent of the ballots were known, and candidates' share of the vote is usually smaller in the final tally than the smaller sample size of publicly revealed ballots.

David Ortiz, the only player elected via the BBWAA in 2021, received 79.8 per cent of the publicly revealed vote. He had 77.9 per cent he received in the full balloting. The final percentage for the next six candidates behind Ortiz.

Rolen, Helton and Wagner along with Barry Bonds, Roger

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