The 2023 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was revealed on Monday. This is the BBWAA ballot, meaning it features players who have been retired at least five years and those who are holdovers from previous ballots for having received between five and 75 percent of the vote. .Players who receive le s than five percent of the vote fall off the ballot and those with at least 75 percent will be enshrined in Cooperstown as Hall of Famers next year. Everyone else will have 10 chances on the ballot to make it in before lapsing. The 2023 Baseball Hall of Fame cla s will be announced in January.Let's run through the biggest storylines on the ballot this year.First things first: The ballot that has Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling and more isn't this one. The ballot revealed Monday was the BBWAA ballot -- something Bonds, Clemens and Schilling are no longer eligible for. has Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Rafael Palmerio, Albert Belle, Dale Murphy, Don Mattingly, and Fred McGriff. There is a 16-person committee that will hold Jusuf Nurkic Jersey a vote during the winter meetings on Dec. 4 and if any of the players get 12 votes, they'll get into the Hall of Fame in the 2023 cla s. This has absolutely nothing to do with the BBWAA vote; they are two totally different things.Onto the BBWAA ballot!We will be delving into many individual candidacies more at a later date, but just on the surface, Carlos Beltrn looks like the only Hall of Famer from this group of ballot rookies. The other first timers of note: John Lackey, Jered Weaver, Francisco Rodrguez, Matt Cain, , Jayson Werth, J.J. Hardy, , Andre Ethier and, well, you get the point. It's Beltrn or bust for this cla s (though I suppose K-Rod could hang around on the ballot for a bit).He has the numbers. Beltrn in parts of 20 seasons was a nine-time All-Star and had the "it" factor as a five-tool superstar. He hit .279/.350/.486 (119 OPS+) with 2,725 hits, 1,582 runs, 1,587 RBI, 565 doubles, 435 homers and 312 stolen Harry Gilles III Jersey bases. In 65 career playoff games, he hit .307/.412/.609 with 15 doubles, 16 home runs, 42 RBI and 45 runs. Among center fielders, he ranks eighth in WAR (not far off Joe DiMaggio and ahead of Duke Snider, Andre Dawson and Richie Ashburn). It would've been a lot le s complicated to argue his numbers -- and I have no doubt that some people will push back against those as worthy numbers, as misguided as that argument would be -- but then we have the sign-stealing scandal.I have absolutely no idea how this will affect matters. Connections to PEDs have kept a number of otherwise-worthy candidates out. This isn't that, but Beltrn was said to be one of the ringleaders of the sign-stealing operation in Houston in 2017 (his final year as an player). He didn't really pad his stats that season -- it was the worst offensive season he had post-2000 -- but his involvement could cause him to lose votes .This isn't just about Beltrn. We might end up having to discu s this down the road with some players from that Astros team, most notably , who has a great foundation for a Hall of Fame resume right now. For me, this is easily the most impactful storyline on the 2023 ballot. We'll find out in the coming weeks what the voting body collectively thinks about the matter.Something we've known for years about the BBWAA voting body is that a decent enough portion are PED hardliners to have kept the likes of Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, etc. out.Bonds and Clemens did make a surge up to around 2/3 of the vote, though, and the voting body will continue to skew more and more "new school" as the years go on. New, younger voters gain votes while older voters lapse or pa s away. As we get further away from the "Steroid Era," do Alex Rodriguez's chances get better? The reason I mentioned Bonds and Clemens is that they were special cases. We've seen some voters make distinctions on the PED-connected players to say that some reached their Hall-level numbers due to the extra help but that Bonds and Clemens were already Hall of Fame type players before allegedly Damian Lillard Jersey using anything. I think we can all agree A-Rod is more on level with Bonds and Clemens in terms of his natural ability. There's an argument to be made that he was the most physically gifted player of all-time (at least until the two-way exploits of ).His PED suspension, obviously, clouds matters for someone who otherwise would have gotten close to 100 percent of the vote.A-Rod got 34.3 percent of the vote last year in his first go-round. Bonds got 36.2 percent his first year and ended with 66 percent. Bonds didn't make significant gains until his fourth and fifth years, though, so if A-Rod sees a Zach Collins Jersey big jump this year, it's po sible he has a chance. If he gets close to 50 percent, I'd venture a gue s that he'll eventually get in. If he sits around 1/3, I'd gue s he never will via the BBWAA route.Perhaps the best bet to get in on this ballot is Scott Rolen. He only got 10.2 percent of the vote his first year, but as the ballot continues to clear out big names and the new-school crowd continues to make his case as an underrated all-around player (WAR loves him), he's gained serious momentum. Rolen rose to 63.2 percent last year and it seems like a matter of "when" and not "if."As a reminder, we'll get into individual cases in the coming weeks. This is a scene setter and I'm not here to argue one way or the other on each candidate right now (though, admittedly, I did a little bit above with Beltrn to help fully illustrate why his candidacy is so interesting). Todd Helton is trending very strong. This is the fifth year he's on the ballot and so far he's gone 16.5 percent, to 29.2, to 44.9 and then 52 percent. There's an outside chance he gets in this year, though a 23 percent bump would be a huge. Fellow Rockies legend Larry Walker jumped 22 percent in one year to get in, but it was his final year. Helton won't inspire that sort of urgency in Year 5.Andruw Jones' case looked like a lost cause through two years. He hung around on the ballot with 7.3 percent and then 7.5. Then he jumped to 19.4, 33.9 and last year hit 41.4 percent. It's been five tries and he has up to five more. If things keep moving in that direction, he'll eventually make it via the BBWAA vote as a Hall of Famer, though nearly 34 percent is still a steep climb. Sometimes the momentum builds until a player makes it and other times the support plateaus short of the 75 percent threshold as Nassir Little Jersey we run into a swath of voters who won't change their minds.My hunch is Jones needs to crack 50 percent this year. As for Helton, he's on track to get in, though it won't be this year. Five-time All-Star and 2000 NL MVP Jeff Kent is on the ballot for the 10th and final time. With 560 doubles, 377 home runs, 1,518 RBI and nearly 2,500 hits, he's one of the most prolific offensive second basemen of all-time. Defense held him back a bit, and for that reason and perhaps some others, he's been