Once again, the National Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee elected nobody.

The biannual announcement was made Tuesday, and Tony Oliva received 47 of 84 votes (57 percent). Players need 75 percent of the vote to get in. Ron Santo came the closest with 57 votes (70 percent), followed by Jim Kaat (52, 63 percent), Gil Hodges (50, 61 percent), Oliva, Maury Wills (33, 40 percent) and Joe Torre (26, 32 percent).

Since the Veterans Committee was reconfigured earlier this decade, it hasn’t elected anyone, snubbing the field in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Oliva, who received similar vote percentages in the previous two elections, left the Twins spring training complex 30 minutes before the announcement, not expecting good news.

“If it happens, it would be a surprise,” Oliva said. “The way it’s set up now, it’s very hard.”

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