Twitterverse reacts to Baseball HOF picks

Craig Biggio received 74.8% of the vote, 0.2 shy of the required amount for election to the @BaseballHall.

— MLB (@MLB) January 8, 2014

A relieved Frank Thomas after learning he's a Hall of a Famer. pic.twitter.com/rSpKkNCYZx

— Chuck Garfien (@ChuckGarfien) January 8, 2014

Craig Biggio missed by two votes, Jack Morris dropped to 61.5% in his final year on the ballot. #HOF

— Mike Wilner (@Wilnerness) January 8, 2014

No Craig Biggio. Ugh. 74.8%.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 8, 2014

Congrats to the guys that got in to the HOF today! Happy to see the Big Hurt get in, grew up watching him smash them on the south side

— Jason Kipnis (@TheJK_Kid) January 8, 2014

Congrats to "The Big Hurt" on his induction into #MLBHallofFame.

— Lance Briggs (@LanceBriggs) January 8, 2014

Congrats to maddux, glavine and thomas for deserving election. Disappointed for morris, raines and 5 others I supported.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 8, 2014

If you just called every individual HOF voter right now, and said “Craig Biggio yes/no”, you’d get more than 75% yes. But he’s not in. Sad.

— Dave Cameron (@OneDaveCameron) January 8, 2014

Biggio was left off 25.2 percent of ballots. To focus on one or two individual voters who did not check his name is the height of stupidity.

— Henry Schulman BLUE CHECK MARK (@hankschulman) January 8, 2014

Maddux, Glavine and Thomas get in BBHOF. No Biggio. Very surprised.

— Mike Harrington (@ByMHarrington) January 8, 2014

Sad to see Jack Morris actually went down in voting for only 2nd time in 13 years and is off BBWAA ballot after failing on his 15th shot.

— Tracy Ringolsby (@TracyRingolsby) January 8, 2014

Congrats @gregmaddux, @TheBigHurt_35, and Tom Glavine on The Hall of Fame! 3 unbelievable careers…so much respect for them! #HOF2014 #MLB

— Bryce Harper (@bryceharper3) January 8, 2014

Congratulations and welcome @gregmaddux @TomGlavine and @TheBigHurt_35 @BaseballHall #HOF2014

— Tony La Russa (@TonyLaRussa) January 8, 2014

Voters did not create the 75% threshold. The electorate did not "shun" any of the guys who came close. The threshold did. Oh well. Just yell

— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) January 8, 2014

Biggio and Morris miss HOF again. No surprise with Morris. Shocked by Biggio

— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) January 8, 2014

Bonds and Clemens go down in voting percentage. And someone voted for Armando Benitez. Joy.

— Joe Posnanski (@JPosnanski) January 8, 2014

It amazes me that Bonds % of votes went down this year. With or without steroids, he deserves to be in

— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) January 8, 2014

Craig Biggio not making the Hall this year means another ridiculously stuffed ballot next year, with Big Unit, Pedro and Smoltz joining on.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 8, 2014

Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds both dipped this year. It is going to be a long, long road to get them into the Hall of Fame.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 8, 2014

Rafael Palmeiro off the ballot after receiving 4.4 percent.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) January 8, 2014

Larry Walker survives for another year, named on 10.2% of ballots. Rafael Palmeiro fails to make the 5% standard. #HOF

— Mike Wilner (@Wilnerness) January 8, 2014

"The Professor" "The Painter" & "The big Hurt". A great representation of a tremendous era in baseball. No questions here. #HOF

— Dallas Braden (@DALLASBRADEN209) January 8, 2014

Maddux's 97.2% is 8th-highest in history (Seaver, Ryan, Ripken, Cobb, Brett, Aaron, Gwynn).

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) January 8, 2014

Maddux was named on 97.2% of ballots cast. No earthly reason to not vote for him. #HOF

— Mike Wilner (@Wilnerness) January 8, 2014

McGwire year by year, in order: 23.5%, 23.6%, 21.9%, 23.7%, 19.8%, 19.5%, 16.9% and now a low 11.0%.

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) January 8, 2014

Eric Gagne got two votes.

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) January 8, 2014

Players who actually received Hall of Fame votes today: Hideo Nomo, Armando Benitez, JT Snow, Jacque Jones, Kenny Rogers and Eric Gagne.

— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 8, 2014

Happy see Maddux, Glavine, Thomas get elected to HOF Woulda liked to see more support for Mussina. Good riddance to Palmiero, now off ballot

— Dan Rafael (@DanRafael1) January 8, 2014

If you don't vote for Greg Maddux for the Hall Of Fame, for any reason, you should give up your vote.

— Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) January 8, 2014

The 2.8% of Hall of Fame voters who didn't vote for Greg Maddux should go run a lap.

— Paul Pabst (@PaulPabst) January 8, 2014