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My first cut left me with 12 names, 8 in and 4 maybe.
The 9th came easily enough when I compared to his peers
The last name came down to what do I believe about his intent re: BALCO. After reading both Jay Jaffe's piece on the subject & part of Tom Verducci's, I opted to include him.
Jeff Bagwell
Vladimir Guerrero
Trevor Hoffman
Fred McGriff
*Tim Raines
Curt Schilling
*Lee Smith
Mike Mussina
Billy Wagner
Gary Sheffield
The other two contenders omitted were
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