Starting next season, the MLB Hall of Fame ballot is set to get very crowded.
Names like Bonds, Clemens, Sosa and Piazza are set to join the ballot in 2013 while Maddux, Thomas, Johnson, Martinez and Griffey are on tap in subsequent years. Add in holdovers like Bagwell, Raines, McGwire and Palmeiro, and it's easy to see why there will be plenty of difficult choices on the Hall of Fame ballot in the near future.
Despite how crowded the ballot is going to get, no modern HOF class can ever be considered the greatest in MLB history. The modern rules and circumstances of the Hall of Fame practically ensure that the debut classof 1936 can never be topped.
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