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Jeff Bagwell said he was neither shocked nor disappointed upon learning Wednesday that he got 41.7 percent of the vote for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
"I'm just thank thankful I'm even on the ballot, and we'll go on from here," the former Houston Astros slugger told reporters by telephone.
Bagwell, who went onto the ballot this offseason, hit 449 home runs, reached base in 41 percent of his career plate appearances, won a Gold Glove as a first baseman and received the National League MVP award in 1994.
He also played in the Steroid Era, and his candidacy has inspired an unusually heated and public debate among voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
"People are going to have suspicions when you play in the era I played in," Bagwell said.
Bagwell reiterated on Wednesday that suspicions of steroid use directed at him are ill-founded. In fact, he called them "ridiculous" and added: "Just because I'm going to work out? C'mon."
Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2011/01/05/jeff-bagwell-shrugs-off-hall-of-fame-snub/
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