Ballots from the Baseball Writers Association of America are due at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday. And shortly thereafter, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce its highly anticipated Class of 2020.
With that in mind, here are five questions that will be answered when Cooperstown announces its newest class:
Will Derek Jeter get in unanimously?
Appearing on the ballot for the first time, Derek Jeter will headline the Hall of Fame's Class of 2020.
The only mystery left regarding his candidacy is whether or not he'll be getting in unanimously.
According to Ryan Thibodaux, who tracks Hall of Fame ballots both public and private, the former New York Yankees shortstop has appeared on 100 percent of the first 52.9 percent of the ballots he's received. That puts "The Captain" on track to be the second unanimous selection in the Hall's history after his former teammate, Mariano Rivera, was inducted unanimously in 2019.
Could Jeter join Rivera in such rarified air? We'll find out on Tuesday night.
Who will join Jeter?
While Jeter will be the headliner, the 14-time All-Star won't be the only inductee in this year's class. Based on Thibodaux's tracking, the 2020 class figures to include at least two other inductees and perhaps as many as five total players.
In addition to Jeter, Larry Walker (83.5 percent) and Curt Schilling (77.5 percent) are currently polling higher than the necessary 75 percent of votes needed to gain induction. Barry Bonds (71.1 percent) and Roger Clemens (70.2 percent), meanwhile, still have an outside chance of gaining the necessary ground for induction with nearly half of this year's votes currently unaccounted for.
The BBWAA has elected at least four players per class in each of the last two years. In addition to the BBWAA's selections, Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons have already been elected to the Hall of Fame's 2020 Class via the Veterans Committee.
Where do players linked to PEDs stand?
Speaking of Bonds and Clemens, while they're currently on the outside looking in at this year's class, both of their apparent gains in votes could prove promising for their future inductions. And that could prove seismic as far as the future of the Hall of Fame is concerned, as the BBWAA has previously been reluctant to induct players who have been linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
Should Bonds and/or Clemens get inducted -- be it this year or shortly after -- could that open the door for other players who have been linked to PEDs to one day be enshrined in Cooperstown? And what could that mean for the future candidacies of players like Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa?
Who has gained ground?
While most players on the ballot won't wind up being inducted this year, it's nevertheless interesting to see the ways in which certain candidates have trended.
For example, Omar Vizquel appears to be gaining ground for the third straight year and could wind up being enshrined in Cooperstown in the next few years.
Other players who appear to have significantly increased their vote totals from the 2019 ballot based on Thibodaux's projections include Todd Helton, Andrew Jones, Jeff Kent, Scott Rolen, Gary Sheffield and Billy Wagner. And with a lack of intriguing candidates expected to be added to next year's ballot, 2021 could ultimately see another significant jump.
What could we learn about future classes?
According to Baseball-Reference, first-year candidates expected to be added to next year's ballot include Aramis Ramirez, Tim Hudson, Torii Hunter, Mark Buerhle and Barry Zito. None of those players, however, possess credentials significant enough to be elected in 2021.
That means that those who just miss the cut this year may only have to wait a year to get the call from Cooperstown. So in many ways, this year's Hall of Fame vote isn't only about the 2020 class, but also 2021.
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