This post starts off the second round of voting for the Circle of Greats, which brings in players born in 1967. As before, your ballot must include three and only three eligible players. The one player who appears on the most ballots cast in this voting round is inducted into the Circle of Greats. Players who appear on half or more of the ballots cast win four future rounds of ballot eligibility. Any other player in the top 8 in votes (or who appears on at least 20% of the ballots) wins one additional round of ballot eligibility.
In the first round, the rule was that a voter cannot change his or her ballot once it’s been cast in the comments. Commenter Dr. Doom suggested that we amend that rule to allow changes in votes as the balloting proceeds, to reflect the give and take of the discussion. That works so long as it doesn’t create voting gamesmanship in the late stages of the round, so as a compromise I’ll say for this round we’ll allow vote changes for the first five days of voting, after that votes cast are fixed — those who haven’t voted yet can still vote, but those who have voted can’t change thereafter. So all voting closes at 11:59PM, Wednesday the 26th, while changes to previous votes are allowed until 11:59 Monday night, just as Christmas Eve becomes Christmas.
If you’d like to follow the vote tally, and/or check to make sure I’ve recorded your vote correctly, you can see my ballot-counting spreadsheet for this round here: 1967 COG Vote Tally . I’ll be updating the spreadsheet periodically with the latest votes.
Choose your three players from the lists below of eligible players:
Holdovers from the 1968 ballot:
Jeff Bagwell
Frank Thomas
Mike Mussina
Roberto Alomar
Jeff Kent
John Olerud
Sammy Sosa
Hideo Nomo
Matt Stairs
Position Players (born in 1967, and 10 years in the majors or 20 career WAR, b-ref version):
Alex Arias
Vinny Castilla
Gary Disarcina
John Flaherty
Carlos Garcia
Luis Gonzalez
Marquis Grissom
Carlos Hernandez
Gregg Jefferies
Brian Jordan
Eric Karros
Ray Lankford
Darren Lewis
Kenny Lofton
Al Martin
Tino Martinez
Brian McRae
Mike Mordecai
Todd Pratt
Henry Rodriguez
Rey Sanchez
Reggie Sanders
Scott Servais
Ed Sprague
Lee Stevens
John Valentin
Mo Vaughn
Robin Ventura
Omar Vizquel
John Wehner
Rick Wilkins
Eric Young
Pitchers (born in 1967, and 10 years in the majors or 20 career pitching WAR, b-ref version):
Paul Abbott
Jim Abbott
Kevin Appier
Andy Ashby
Andy Benes
Doug Brocail
Rheal Cormier
Cal Eldred
Tom Gordon
Jason Grimsley
Trevor Hoffman
Graeme Lloyd
Josias Manzanillo
Omar Olivares
Lance Painter
Pat Rapp
Scott Service
John Smoltz
Mike Stanton
Mike Trombley
Turk Wendell
Matt Whiteside
Tim Worrell