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Is this the year Curt Schilling makes it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame? Will Schilling be the only player elected to the Hall this year? After all the tumultuous voting activity of the 2010s, has voting for the Hall returned to "normal"?

Only a crystal ball, or the patience to wait until voting results for the 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame are announced on January 26, 2021, can give us the definitive answers, but of course that doesn't stop us from prognosticating before we learn the results.

For now, the short answers are:

1. Maybe.

2. Possibly.

3. Likely.

2021 BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot: Executive Summary

The last really good season of Michael Cuddyer’s career was with the Colorado Rockies in 2013, the second of three seasons he would play for the team.  That year, he was an All Star, a Silver Slugger and won his lone Batting Title.  Cuddyer’s numbers wit Colorado saw him post a respectable Slash Line of .307/.362/.525.

Michael Cuddyer

A two time All Star, Michael Cuddyer spent most of his career with the Minnesota Twins, but his best season was in 2013 when he was with the Colorado Rockies.  That year, Cuddyer won the Batting Title and earned his only Silver Slugger.  He would have over 1,500 Hits over his career.
Michael Cuddyer announced today on the Player’s Tribune that he will forego his final season of his contract with the New York Mets and has retired from Major League Baseball.

The 36 year old was a two time All Star and spent most of his fifteen years with the Minnesota Twins, but it was with the Colorado Rockies in 2013 that he had his best season where he would win the Batting Title and was named a Silver Slugger.  He joined the Mets last season to play with his childhood friend, David Wright, and it was there that he made his first trip to the World Series in a losing effort to the Kansas City Royals. 

Cuddyer retires with 1,522 Hits, 197 Home Runs, a Slash Line of .277/.344/.461 and a bWAR of 16.6. 

We always the question when someone retires if he is a Hall of Famer and with Cuddyer, who would be eligible in 2021, had a good career he isn’t one.  Still, that does not take away from what was a productive career, and he could wind up in the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame one day.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Michael Cuddyer the best in his post-playing career.