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Originally Posted by Bored5000

I think Utley will get in over the coming years, just based on where his vote started and his momentum. I was surprised he was strong as he was in his first year on the ballot (28 percent) and he is at 47 percent right now in a year when four guys may be elected. The ballot will not always have so many guys will strong HoF cases.

By comparison, Rollins' HoF votes have barely moved. He started at nine percent in 2022, received 14 percent last year and is only at 16 percent this time around on the ballots so far.

So far, Utley has picked up 10 votes from people that didn't vote for him last year, but he also lost 5 votes from people who did vote for him last year. For 2 of those voters, they voted for 10 others so Utley apparently got pushed out by some of the new choices such as Ichiro and C.C. However, the other 3 voted for less than 10 and decided to leave Utley off their ballots this year after voting for him last year. Seems strange.

Rollins has picked up 7 votes from people that didn't vote for him last year and hasn't lost any from people who did (so far). If that continues, his overall percent will climb a little, but he's still a long way from being voted in.