Alomar batted .300 with a .371 on-base average and a .443 slugging percentage over a 17-season career with the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks. The switch hitter totaled 2,724 hits, 1,508 runs, 504 doubles, 80 triples, 210 home runs, 1,134 runs batted in and 474 stolen bases. Alomar, whose father and brother, both named Sandy, played in the majors, was on Toronto’s World Series champions of 1992 and ’93, was the Most Valuable Player of the 1992 American League Championship Series and MVP of the 1998 All-Star Game at Coors Field in Denver.
Blyleven pitched in 22 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians and California Angels and compiled a 287-250 record with a 3.31 ERA, 242 complete games, 60 shutouts and 3,701 strikeouts in 4,969 1/3 innings. The righthander pitched a no-hitter on Sept. 22, 1977 for the Rangers against the Angels and shares the AL single-game record for the longest one-hit complete game of 10 innings June 21, 1976. He, too, was a key part of two World Series champions, the 1979 Pirates and the 1987 Twins.
The only other players to gain more than 50 percent of the vote were shortstop Barry Larkin with 361 votes (62.1%) and pitcher Jack Morris with 311 (53.5%).
Here is how all the voted broke down:
| 2011 Hall of Fame voting | ||
| Name | Votes | Pct. |
| Roberto Alomar | 523 | 90.0% |
| Bert Blyleven | 463 | 79.7% |
| Barry Larkin | 361 | 62.1% |
| Jack Morris | 311 | 53.5% |
| Lee Smith | 263 | 45.3% |
| Jeff Bagwell | 242 | 41.7% |
| Tim Raines | 218 | 37.5% |
| Edgar Martinez | 191 | 32.9% |
| Alan Trammell | 141 | 24.3% |
| Larry Walker | 118 | 20.3% |
| Mark McGwire | 115 | 19.8% |
| Fred McGriff | 104 | 17.9% |
| Dave Parker | 89 | 15.3% |
| Don Mattingly | 79 | 13.6% |
| Dale Murphy | 73 | 12.6% |
| Rafael Palmeiro | 64 | 11.0% |
| Juan Gonzalez | 30 | 5.2% |
| Harold Baines | 28 | 4.8% |
| John Franco | 27 | 4.6% |
| Kevin Brown | 12 | 2.1% |
| Tino Martinez | 6 | 1.0% |
| Marquis Grissom | 4 | 0.7% |
| Al Leiter | 4 | 0.7% |
| John Olerud | 4 | 0.7% |
| B.J. Surhoff | 2 | 0.3% |
| Bret Boone | 1 | 0.2% |
| Benito Santiago | 1 | 0.2% |
| Carlos Baerga | 0 | 0.0% |
| Lenny Harris | 0 | 0.0% |
| Bobby Higginson | 0 | 0.0% |
| Charles Johnson | 0 | 0.0% |
| Raul Mondesi | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kirk Rueter | 0 | 0.0% |
| Note: 436 votes (75%) required for enshrinement. Induction July 24, 2011 in Cooperstown, N.Y. | ||
