We finish at 245 pre-results ballots. Thank you for following!

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Doesn’t vote for 10 people and drops a player who he selected last year. What changed in Jones’ candidacy?

Goaltending and the ying/yang of the Senators' weekend. My latest for Hockey Hot Stove. hockeyhotstove.com/goaltending-...

Here's where we're at with 178 ballots tracked, including those today from The Athletic group (www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...), Dan Connolly (www.baltimorebaseball.com/sports/oriol...), and Marc Carig, who is at The Athletic, but wasn't in The Athletic, but shared his ballot this morning anyway:

Midweek OTP Radio on @HockeyHStove is coming your way at 4:30pm EST! Michael Augello, Russ Cohen, & I dig into the #LetsGoFlyers victory over the Ducks & the Dvorak signing, the #Leafs bottom six, #NYR w/o Shesterkin & Fox, #Sabres +more! hockeyhotstove.com/new-off-the-...

Here's your #MicrosoftKilledTheTracker screencap for your viewing pleasure with the six ballots from the Boston Globe group (apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/spor...) added. Thanks for all your feedback on this yesterday. My current plan is to post this screencap morning, mid day, and in the evening.

With 113 ballots revealed/~26.4% known: Beltrán 87.6% Andruw 83.2% - Utley 65.5% Félix 58.4% Pettitte 54.9% A-Rod 51.3% Manny 46.0% Abreu 41.6% Hamels 31.9% Rollins 29.2% Pedroia 25.7% Buehrle 23.0% Wright 18.6% K-Rod 15.0% Vizquel 11.5% - Torii 4.4% Braun 3.5% Choo/EE/Pence 0.9% tracker.fyi

Ballot #105 is from a voter who wishes to remain anonymous. As with all anonymous ballots, we are unable to report adds or drops, if any. The top two candidate earn a vote. Beltrán is tracking at 86.7%, Jones 81.9%. In the Tracker: tracker.fyi

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New column: After hours of looking at this, I voted for Andy Pettitte for the Hall of Fame for the first time ... Because I stopped focusing on what he wasn't and appreciated what he was - for 18 years: A reliable workhorse win machine. www.nytimes.com/athletic/604...

Connor Zary goes knee on knee with Drew Helleson. Zary had to be helped off the ice. 🎥: Sportsnet | NHL #Flames #FlyTogether

Everything you need to follow the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker: The team: @tonycal.bsky.social and @shutthedore.bsky.social (and me!) The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi Tracker summary/leaderboard: bit.ly/hof25 Starter Pack of HOF voters on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/SxjyF22 The ballot:

Oakland Coliseum, 9-26-24. My final photo of the late great Rickey Henderson. 😔

Net gained/lost votes through 32 ballots (~8.2% of the vote): Beltrán +6 Pettitte +4 Wagner +4 Vizquel +3 Buehrle +2 Andruw+2 Rollins +2 --- Abreu +0 Hunter +0 Manny +0 K-Rod +0 Wright +0 --- A-Rod -1 Utley -1 tracker.fyi

Here are my draft rankings for the #2025nhldraft. This is my first version. There will be more. nhldraftbuzz.com/2025-nhl-dra...

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