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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Four former Red Sox players now have a chance to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Napoli, John Lackey, and Bronson Arroyo are among the 14 new players on the Baseball Writers Association of America 2023 ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. They join Manny Ramirez and Billy Wagner as the other Red Sox players on the ballot.
Arroyo played three years with the Sox and was a member of the 2004 World Series-winning team. Ellsbury won two World Series with the Sox, in 2007 and 2013, during his seven-year career with the Sox. Napoli and Lackey both won the World Series with the Sox in 2013 and played in Boston for three and five years respectively.
Players need to receive at least 75 percent of the vote to be chosen for a spot in the hall and if they are not elected, they need to receive at least five percent of the vote to remain on the ballot for the next year. Players are allowed to be on the ballot for 10 years.
In last year's voting, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz made it into the Hall of Fame after getting 77.9 percent of votes, while Ramirez got 28.9 percent and Wagner got 51 percent of votes. Former Sox players Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling failed to get in after 10 years on the ballot, while Johnathan Papelbon, Jake Peavy, Carl Crawford, and A.J. Pierzynski failed to get five percent of votes.
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Although Clemens and Schilling failed to make it after 10 years on the ballot, the pair made it onto the Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot, a vote that helps get players who have been retired for more than 15 years into the Hall of Fame, along with managers, executives, and umpires.
The BBWAA will announce the results of its voting on Jan. 24, 2023.
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