Sometimes, however, players not as deserving receive some votes from baseball writers.
Current Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss compiled just a .258 batting average and a .677 OPS during his 14-year playing career, yet he received one vote during the 2006 election.
Weiss isn’t the only not-so-deserving candidate over the last 10 years. Check out our list of the 15 worst players to receive votes for the Hall of Fame since 2004.