What to know about 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame vote - Is Ortiz getting in? Will Bonds, Clemens fall short?

The Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of the Baseball Writers Association of America voting Tuesday, and it's a winter tradition that has become as much fun as shoveling wet, heavy snow that sits atop a layer of super-slick ice. Hall of Fame debates are no longer just about who was a better baseball player, but weighing whose transgressions voters are willing to look past and whose they won't.

Last year, 401 members of the BBWAA participated in the voting, meaning players needed 301 votes (75%) to get elected. Despite a ballot that featured 10 players with at least 60 career WAR — a total that roughly makes a player a viable Hall of Fame candidate — the writers didn't elect anybody, with Curt Schilling coming closest at 71.1% of the vote and leaving him 16 votes short of election.

Schilling, facing his final year of eligibility in 2022, then asked to be removed from the ballot. «I'll defer to the veterans committee and men whose opinions actually matter and who are in a position to actually judge a player,» Schilling wrote on his Facebook page. The Hall of Fame's board of directors voted unanimously to leave Schilling on the ballot. The response from the BBWAA? A player usually receives a final-year boost, but Schilling — no stranger to controversy, of course, even before his little pique of anger — has seen his support decline. Via Ryan Thibodaux's Hall of Fame tracker, we know Schilling's percentage on public ballots (voters who reveal their selections before the results are announced) dropped to 60.7% (through 168 ballots revealed). He's not getting in.

To be fair, it's not like the writers are against electing anybody. Last year, the average ballot contained 5.86 names, despite 14 blank ballots. So far