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Homerun and Strike for Derek Jeter:

By: Nate Unger, Abbie Goddard,  and Kinley DuRant

Here’s What to Know 

Every January, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) gets together and votes collectively on a pre-decided ballot of the best of the best Baseball players on whether they will be admitted into the prestigious Hall of Fame. Many of what are considered to embody this definition are considered shoo-ins.  But making it into the Hall of Fame isn’t enough.  It is now considered admirable if a player is voted in unanimously. It was assumed that Derek Jeter, a member of the New York, Yankee’s, would be the next player to achieve this in 2020.  However, the results of  voting came out on the night of Tuesday, January 21^st: he was unable to get the unanimity by a single vote. The results show an uproar in the world of social media.

This ESPN graphic from January 21^st shows where Jeter ranks among voting percentage for Hall entry.

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Here are some of the facts:

• You need at least 75% of the almost 400 voters to vote ‘Yes’ in order to get into the Hall.
• Up until last year, nobody had ever achieved a unanimous vote
  • Mariano Rivera, also a Yankee was the first to get 100% of the votes in 2019
• Derek Jeter missed being unanimously inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame by one vote
  • Would have been the second in history
• 4 thousand tweets released
  • Primarily focused on the missing vote as opposed to Jeter being inducted to the Hall of Fame
• 55% of all tweets regarding the subject are of positive nature
• 45% negative
  • Mostly directed at the one person, whose name or identity still remains anonymous, that denied him his unanimous vote.

News outlets like CNN and ABC News have tweeted out the results of the voting, with all of them touching on the fact that Jeter was one vote away from being unanimous.

CNN tweeted “Jeter was one vote away from being the second player ever to get a unanimous vote” on the 21^st. Sports accounts like ESPN Stats and Info and Bleacher Report are tweeting out statistics to show how impactful of a player he was.

On the other side of the topic, Phil Hughes, retired pitcher and a longtime teammate of Jeter’s, tweeted out just half an hour after the votes were revealed, “On a day that should be about celebrating Jeter’s illustrious career, it’s instead focused on the one voter who didn’t deem him a worthy first ballot. Fix the system.”

However, in light of the event, Derek Jeter goes down in history as one of the best ballplayers to ever step onto a baseball diamond and his record will stand in the Baseball Hall of Fame.