Ballot #2 is from William Ladson, a first-time voter. Beltrán, Jones, and Pettitte improve to 2/2 in the early going, while Félix and Buehrle grab their first vote each In the Tracker: tracker.fyi

Ballot #1 in the 2026 Hall of Fame voting cycle is from Jorge Morejón. Andruw Jones receives the first net gained vote of the cycle. Jones finished last year 8.8% shy of election. Morejón's column: www.martinoticias.com/a/opini%C3%B... In the Tracker: tracker.fyi

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Through one week of Hall Season - Fights about whether someone is Bad for promising a Christmas Day ballot reveal as a generous gift to the Tracker Team: 1 Revealed ballots: 0

Everything you need to follow the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker: The Tracker team: @tonycal.bsky.social @shutthedore.bsky.social, @notmrtibbs.com The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi Quick Tracker Summary/Leaderboard: bit.ly/hof26 The ballot:

Ballots have reached the West Coast... And we'll have at least one Christmas Day reveal this year!

Here is it, our first look at the 2026 Hall of Fame ballot out in the wild (via David Borges on Facebook):

Surely someone in the Northeast received their ballot today and would like to post photographic evidence. Surely.

New @fangraphs.com: first up in my 2026 BBWAA ballot series is the slate’s most likely honoree and top returning candidate vote-wise: Carlos Beltrán, who received 70.3% last year, and whose candidacy has gone much more smoothly than expected

Our first news this year of a voter reaching the end of their voting eligibility comes with an appeal to current voters. From Twitter/X:

ICYMI. Please also give @shutthedore.bsky.social and @tonycal.bsky.social a follow because, you know, they do all the work around here. Happy Hall Season!

The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago by @baseballhall.org (baseballhall.org/news/2026-bb...). Results will be announced Jan. 20th. Game on!

Just remembered that Baseball Hall ballots get mailed out on Monday. 🫨

Wake up Tracker Team (@shutthedore.bsky.social, @tonycal.bsky.social)! It's Confirmed First-Time Voter Friday! Congrats Eric! We needed more puns during HOF season.

We've finally reached the year when all the long-time MLB dot com scribes enter the electorate. Congrats to Mike and the dozens of other first-time voters! 🥳

Hello and welcome to #JaffeSeason.

The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot features eight candidates for consideration in the Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Results will be announced at 7:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 7: ow.ly/Agwx50XlQRH

The 2026 BBWAA Career Excellence Award ballot has started to reach voters' mailboxes. Longtime Guardians beat writer Paul Hoynes remains on the ballot and is joined by Tom Verducci and Scott Miller. Miller passed away in June.

50 years ago tonight. "If it stays fair ... home run."

I'm over there somewhere by the Shell station with my wife and mom. Big crown for this little town! Great energy, peaceful and positive vibes all around. #NoKings

Saw this take. #pumpthebrakes

Think about how much lore there is around Reggie Jackson’s three-homer game in the ‘77 World Series. And he didn’t even strike out one batter.

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with two 116+ mph home runs in a game under Statcast (2015, regular season or postseason) HE IS ALSO PITCHING TONIGHT

Some personal news: I will be seeing the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie in IMAX this evening.

Been waiting to do THIS for a while.

Not sure when account notifications here became a thing but I'm happy to see the feature is live. Now I'll never miss another thrilling @this-just-in.bsky.social post! (Next do images in DMs before HOF season, plz.)

Hi! Sorry, I'm late to this. Was bowling a tournament at the National Bowling Stadium over the weekend. So... IT'S EXTREMELY COOL THAT LOCAL LEGEND CC SABATHIA MENTIONED THE TRACKER IN HIS HALL INDUCTION SPEECH YESTERDAY! youtu.be/twHAuTiUUmg?... (~8:45 mark)

This is a gut punch. I didn’t know Scott well, but we had some warm conversations about craft beer and baseball in press boxes and in Cooperstown. RIP

Great career advice from @jaysonst.bsky.social, with a shoutout to @notmrtibbs.com

"It is fucking insane that we are here!" - @timmiller.bsky.social

One thing I neglected to note: for the second straight year, we won't have any new additions to the All-Time Net Gained Vote Leaderboard. A couple candidates got close (Beltrán +38, Pettitte +36). I have a hunch we'll see some 2026 entries here.

Just added ballot #333 to the Tracker, which brings us to 84.5% of ballots known and a new record! (Previous best: 84.4% in 2020.)

We have 332 ballots listen in the Tracker after the BBWAA drop today. That's 84.3% ballots known, and that means we're one ballot short of breaking the all-time record for % of ballots known. I'm working on it. Scroll down to the post-results section to see all the ballots added today: tracker.fyi

The BBWAA has released all of the ballots that voters allowed to be published. There will be over 100 ballots new to the Tracker: bbwaa.com/25-hof-ballo... Record public ballot percent? Not quite, but very close.

Some more ballots: 224: Dennis Maffezzoli (Utley +21) 225: Paul Hoynes: www.cleveland.com/guardians/20... 226: Anonymous 227: Jesse Rogers (Jones +11, Utley +22, - Beltrán drop to +25) Tracker: tracker.fyi

The next batch of four post-announcement ballots revealed, all in Tracker: 220: Dan Connolly 221: Bob Klapisch (www.nj.com/yankees/2025...) 222: Howie Kussoy (Pettitte (+25), Utley (+20), Wright (+8) adds, Manny (-3), ARod (-2) drops) 223: Ed Petruska (Pettitte (+26) and Wagner (+12) adds

Thought we were done? Not so fast! 13 ballots have been added to the Tracker since the announcement, and we expect to add many many more on 2/4. Here’s the first 3: 217: Jim Alexander 218: Scott Miller 219: Mark Zuckerman (10x Wagner voter): www.masnsports.com/blog/my-2025... Tracker: tracker.fyi

new @fangraphs.com: Closing my coverage of the 2025 Hall of Fame election cycle with my annual look into the crystal ball. Guaranteed 64% accurate!* *guarantee void on the Internet

Got a very nice end of Hall season note from a national ball writer. He also individually sent messages to each of the other Tracker Team fellas as well. Does it surprise anyone at all that it was @jaysonst.bsky.social who took the time to do this? Of course not. One of many reasons he's the 🐐.

Ichiro invites his non-voter over to his house to have a drink. lol

Pretty cool!

Exciting that Sardell has some serious competition again. This'll be fun to watch next year.

Noah Trister (@noahtrister.bsky.social) is the only voter who asks to speak with me AFTER the results are announced each year. Here's his AP piece looking ahead to next year: apnews.com/article/base...

Real ones know that the ballot tracking has only just begun. We've added the first five post-results ballots to the sheet this morning and anticipate adding several more leading up to the big BBWAA ballot dump (80 more new ballots? 90?) 13 days from now. tracker.fyi

Carlos Beltrán is one of just five players with 400 homers and 300 steals. Statistically, he is undeniably deserving a spot in Cooperstown. Yet for the third straight year, Beltrán was kept out — because of the sign-stealing scandal that won't go away. www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

Fun to notice that as @baseballhall.org gets going here on Bluesky, the first and only human they've followed is @wags13.bsky.social. Billy Wagner is a Hall of Famer now, in case you hadn't heard.

new @fangraphs.com my first look at this year's Hall of Fame election results. The lack of unanimity for Ichiro is stupid, but don't lose sight of the opportunity to celebrate his great and unique career, or those of Sabathia and Wagner! Much more to come in my candidate-by-candidate breakdown...

New from me: 5 Things We Learned from the 2025 Hall of Fame election. Ichiro's run at unanimity CC gets a bigger pct. than Bob Gibson Wagner's closing time Beltran and Andruw on deck Pettitte, Utley surge And the 90 percent club www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...

I plan on being in the Hall of Fame soon. It's been over a decade since I visited! I think my membership gets me a discount, too.

BREAKING: The Mariners announce they will be retiring Ichiro’s 51 as part of “Ichiro Hall of Fame Weekend” from Aug 8-10.