Larry Walker, who played for Montreal, Colorado and St. Louis, has his last chance to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America this year in his tenth and last year on the ballot. After many years of scoring around 20%, Larry Walker has climbed 32.7% in the last two years, one of the largest increases ever over two years, as writers started paying more attention to advanced baseball stats that suggest that Walker deserves to be in the Hall. An excellent in depth review and advanced statistical analysis of his entire career can be seen at the url below.

The Hall of Fame vote will be announced on January 21st.

He still has to gain 20.4% to reach 75% this year, a very large one year jump. However, only one player, Gil Hodges, who reached 50% on the ballot, never got elected to the Hall eventually. If he fails to make it this year, he still has an excellent chance starting in 2022, where he would be one of the top candidates in the Today's Game Era Committee ballot.

If Walker is elected, he would only be the second Canadian elected, the other being Ferguson Jenkins, and the only Canadian to ever play for a Canadian team in the Hall.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and...-larry-walker/