And now, on to the results from our MLB-wide polls:

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Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones both have been seeing increased support for their Hall of Fame cases. Both have good shots of making it next year, with Beltrán having eclipsed the 70 percent mark on BBWAA ballots and Jones reaching 66 percent. Both lag in the poll of our readers, though, with barely over half of fans supporting Beltran, and 61 percent supporting Jones. Beltrán’s case is of course complicated by his role in the Astros sign stealing scandal, in which he was implicated as a ring leader. Fans may still hold that against Beltrán, even as the stain of the scandal appears to fade for the writers casting ballots.

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Ichiro missed unanimous induction by one measly vote, joining Derek Jeter in that infamous club. A little over half of fans were surprised by this development, though I’m not sure they should be. Mariano Rivera remains the only player to be voted in unanimously, and it seems that no matter how qualified the candidate, some voter somewhere will find a reason to leave him off on the first ballot.

We also asked fans whether they would change anything about the voting process:

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The most popular initiative was to allow players to stay on the ballot; as of now, players only have ten years on the ballot. However, the most popular single choice was to make no changes. Changes to the Hall’s process are relatively rare, though they did make a change a decade ago, lowering the number of years players have on the ballot from 15 to ten, seemingly in part to avoid another five years of discourse surrounding the candidacies of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.