As we get closer to the official announcement of the 2021 inductees for the Baseball Hall of Fame, I thought it would be fun to fill out my own and then share my reasoning with you, my readers. This year's ballot was challenging as the ballot had many baseball players who participated in or were accused of using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED's). Plain and simple, this is something that could have and should have been avoided.

I also invited some people who love baseball to share their own Hall of Fame Ballots and why they chose those players. I hope that you enjoy it.

Richard, The Nats Report

Votes:

1. Nick Swisher

2. Tim Hudson

3. Scott Rolen

Reasoning:

My overall reason for my three votes was for anyone who didn't do PED's. I am a purist at heart and will always be one. No matter what Major League Baseball knew or didn't know, it was wrong and cheating. What kind of message does it send our kids that you can cheat and then get awarded with a plaque celebrating the achievements from cheating. There are plenty of players on this year's ballot and future ballots that will fill the Baseball Hall of Fame for years and decades to come.

Winners never cheat, and losers never cheat. Plain and simple.

The three players that I voted for all played baseball without PED's and had fantastic baseball careers in themselves, and they deserve to be in the Baseball of Fame, and they should be.

Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears, Talk Nats

Votes:

1. Jeff Kent

2. Gary Sheffield

3. Billy Wagner

Reasoning: You either vote for PED users or suspected PED users, but I wouldn't vote for anyone that tested positive because everyone had a fair warning.

If I vote Clemens, I then vote for McGwire and Bonds. Those are the group of 3 who I'm most torn over, and McGwire was the one who admitted his use and came clean. I could make a case for him. On Sheffield, did he use PEDs? Who knows.

Frank Ellis, The Nats Report (@NationalsSource)

Every year the hall of fame ballot comes around and is a topic of conversation. In years past, that conversation has often been simple but recently, discussing whether players associated with steroids should be inducted into the Baseball of Hame.

I believe we are at the point where we need to let the greats be inducted. If there needs to be an asterisk or a steroid blurb on their plaque, that is fine, but it is time.

Votes:

1. Billy Wagner

2. Todd Helton

3. Gary Sheffield

4. Roger Clemens

5. and Barry Bonds

Reasoning:

Billy Wagner: was an elite reliever, and while relievers are hard to judge when discussing being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Wagner, in my opinion, deserves to be a member.

Todd Helton and Gary Sheffield were two of the best hitters in the game during their time and posted numbers worthy of fame.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. Sheffield admitted to using steroids to help heal up an injury, but when you think of the steroid issue, you think of Clemens and, to a much larger extent Barry Bonds. Both of these players were Hall of Famers before beginning to use steroids. Clemens supposedly started sometime around 1998; before then, he had 4 Cy Youngs and an MVP award; he was a Hall of Famer before steroid use.

The same can be said about Barry Bonds, who began using PED when he moved to San Francisco... he had 2 MVPs, 3 Gold Gloves, and 3 Silver Sluggers. He was one of the best in the game and likely would have been a Hall of Famer without using steroids. He may have never broken the Home Run record, but he certainly was still elite. These five players deserve it no matter what their plaques may say.

Patrick Rice, Hail to the District

Votes:

• 1. Manny Ramirez

• 2. Scott Rolen

• 3. Andy Pettitte

Reasoning:

Manny was central to breaking the "Curse of the Bambino" and one of the greatest right-handed hitters of all time.

Rolen was just absolute rock. Produced 70 war in his career and won 7 GG. Also won ROY and a WS in 2006

Pettitte was the first to come out and apologize for PEDs openly. I think him getting in is an important step for baseball. Not to mention he has 103 more wins than losses and 5 rings. An ace one those great late 90's Yankees teams