Twins Hall of Fame Ballot: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot is and who runs it

The Twins Hall of Fame Ballot is the fan vote the Minnesota Twins run to help decide who enters the club's own hall of fame. It is not a readers-choice survey and not a multi-category business ranking: it is a single award program, a hall of fame ballot for one franchise, hosted on the team's own pages at mlb.com rather than on a third-party polling platform. The ballot lives at mlb.com/twins/fans/twins-hall-of-fame-ballot, and the page carries the Twins masthead alongside the club's ticketing and Target Field event navigation.

The market is Minnesota. The club plays in Minneapolis, and the state evidence for this program cites Minneapolis, Minnesota. The vertical here is a team honor rather than a business ranking, which is what separates it from the readers-choice contests that cover the same state, such as Minnesota's Best.

Because the vote sits on the club's own site, the Twins control the ballot directly: the same domain sells tickets, publishes team news and hosts the fan vote. There is no separate polling vendor to identify, and the copyright line on the page reads © 2026 MLB Advanced Media, LP, reflecting MLB's shared web infrastructure for club sites.

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window falls

Confirmed editions of the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot ran in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2022 gap in that list is simply a year without a confirmed edition among the years on file, not evidence the program skipped or ran; the club's own announcements are the authority for any single season.

The most precisely dated cycle is 2024. The club's page stated: "Fan voting is open now and ends at 11:59 pm CT on December 17, 2024," and elsewhere framed the period as "now through December 17, 2024." That makes mid-December the anchor point for the most recent fully dated window, with the ballot live during December of that year.

The program's history runs deeper than those five years. A Twins announcement for the Class of 2012 describes online voting that "begins Monday, Nov. 28 and concludes at midnight on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012," and notes that "The 2012 Twins Hall of Fame ballot features 18 former players." Online fan voting for the club's hall of fame therefore predates the confirmed edition list by roughly a decade.

What the club has not printed on the ballot page is the slate's category breakdown or any per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The day-level open date for cycles other than 2024 is likewise not published in advance, so each December window should be read off the club's own announcement when it appears.

How a supporter votes on the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot today

Voting here is a straightforward public ballot on the club's own page. A supporter opens the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot page on mlb.com, reviews the names the Twins have published for the current hall of fame class, and submits a fan vote on that same page. No nomination round is described: the ballot the club presents is the ballot you vote on, and the club's own phrase for the action is simply "Vote Now," placed beside the fan voting notice.

Three practical points follow from the host. First, because mlb.com is the club's domain, the ballot sits among ticketing and event links, so a supporter should confirm the fan voting banner is live before assuming a window is open. Second, the 2024 deadline of 11:59 pm CT on December 17 shows the club closes its windows at a stated Central Time hour, so late submissions on the final day are the risk to manage. Third, the page does not state whether a sign-in is needed, how often one person may vote, or whether votes from outside Minnesota count differently from those cast in Minneapolis or anywhere else in the state.

None of those unstated points should be guessed at. The live form governs: whatever it asks for, and whatever it permits on repeat visits, is the rule in force for that cycle. A supporter who wants their vote to count should submit it inside the announced window and treat the club's page, not any summary, as the final word on the mechanic.

How this ballot sits beside its Minnesota neighbours

Most public votes in Minnesota are readers-choice contests run by publishers, and the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot breaks that pattern. The state's other programs are business rankings: Best of the Midwest, Minnesota's Best, Best of the Best Brainerd Lakes Area, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester and Best of the Best (Duluth News Tribune). Each of those asks voters to pick favorite local businesses across many categories, usually under a newspaper or community-voting publisher.

This ballot differs on every axis. Its organizer is a sports franchise, the Minnesota Twins, not a publisher. Its subject is a hall of fame honor for former players and club figures, not a business category. Its host is the club's own mlb.com pages, not a polling platform or a media group's contest system. And its window is a December club announcement rather than a spring or summer readers-choice season.

The practical difference for a supporter comes down to scope. A vote here is a single-franchise choice with a national and international fan base, while the six readers-choice programs draw on local audiences in Duluth, Rochester, the Brainerd Lakes Area and the wider state. A vote on this ballot carries no weight in any of those contests, and none of them feeds this one; each answers to a separate organizer under separate rules.

Strengthening support in a December club ballot

Support in the Twins Hall of Fame Ballot is won inside a short December window, which changes the playbook compared with a months-long readers-choice run. The 2024 cycle gave supporters from the window's opening until 11:59 pm CT on December 17, so a push that starts late has little room to recover. Share the mlb.com ballot link directly, name the deadline in every reminder, and ask supporters to vote early in the window rather than assuming they will return.

The club's page prints no statement on outside vote help, no per-supporter limit and no eligibility statement, so the only safe assumptions are the ones the live form itself enforces. A campaign that leans on repeated reminders to real Twins fans, in Minnesota and across the club's wider base, stays on the right side of whatever the club expects. Anything that looks like automated submission is a different risk entirely, and the club's position on it is not published.

For tactics that apply across public fan votes, including timing, reminder cadence and outreach that does not depend on the ballot's own rules, see how to get more votes online.