​KANSAS CITY, MO – SEPTEMBER 13: Mike Moustakas bats during the MLB Home Run Derby X at Kauffman Stadium on Saturday, September 13, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jason Hanna/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | MLB Photos via Getty Images It didn’t have to be this way. Two years ago, I argued that we needed to vote as many as we could into the Royals Hall of Fame for fear they’d fall off the ballot. Last year, those fears were realized to some degree, with Jarrod Dyson falling off the ballot. This year, Yordano Ventura has fallen off. Maybe you don’t think either of those guys should have been elected – I would argue with you about Dyson – but because other players on those ballots weren’t elected, we are now faced with a nasty conundrum.There are 12 former Royals on this year’s ballot. I believe that 11 of them likely deserve to be inducted, all but Ian Kennedy. Unfortunately, because voters can only select up to five and candidates must receive 75% of the vote to be inducted, not all of them will be added this year. In the best-case scenario, six players could be elected, but only if the ballots were nearly perfectly divided among those six, and likely most, if not all, of the remaining six would fall off the ballot forever.Realistically, it would be a stretch to even see three of these guys voted in this year. That makes me want to try to organize voters around three guys to make sure they get in, but a lot of these cases are so good that even if I could reach every single Royals fan, I’m not at all sure that I could convince everyone to rally around those three. Honestly, I’m not sure I can convince myself to rally around just three guys. How am I supposed to pick?If you listened to the latest episode of the Royals Rundown podcast, you know that I really did struggle with this. I figured out my top four pretty quickly.Mike MoustakasEric HosmerLorenzo CainWade DavisIt’s insane to me that Wade Davis is still on the ballot. I was so sure he would be elected that I decided not to vote for him when he first became eligible following the 2024 season. I voted for him last season as I thought we might get all of HDH in all at once, with Greg Holland becoming eligible for the first time. Kelvin Herrera has been on there as long as Davis and while I believe he is completely deserving, I can understand why he might not get elected. Davis stands out as an absolute travesty to me. From 2014-2016, he put together three of the most dominant relief seasons we have ever seen in baseball, posting a 1.18 ERA and 2.38 SIERA.” He allowed exactly THREE home runs over those three seasons, all in 2015. Mason Miller, who had one of the best individual seasons by a reliever of all time this year, also gave up three home runs, despite pitching in a much less hitter-friendly environment.Hosmer, Moustakas, and Cain are all newcomers to the ballot this year. And while I know many of you will plan to vote for HDH as your first three, I choose to v