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Adam Dunn's name has been out of the baseball public eye for a while.
But when the former Cincinnati Reds slugger popped up onto a special voting ballot, his supporters turned out in full force.
Dunn has been elected to the MLB Hall of Pretty Good, a popular social media platform.
He got 97% of the vote.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Adam Dunn has received 97% of 44,933 votes to become the 31st member elected to the Hall of Pretty Good. His 97% ties him with Tim Wakefield for the third-highest voting percentage in Hall of Pretty Good history. pic.twitter.com/HM7dVQNFzg
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For this fun honor, players have to have been worth less than 35 career Wins Above Replacement.
Dunn qualified, and now he's in.
The 6-foot-6, 285-pound masher finished his career with 462 home runs. He hit 270 of those for the Reds.
Dunn had a solid on-base percentage of .364 that more than made up for a .237 average. His career OPS was .854.
After the Reds, Dunn played for the White Sox, Nationals, Diamondbacks and Athletics.
From 2004 through 2008, Dunn hit at least 40 home runs in five consecutive seasons. Remarkably, he hit exactly 40 in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In four of those five years, Dunn drove in at least 100 runs.
He had two seasons with the Nationals in which he hit 38 home runs back to back while again driving in more than 100 runs in consecutive years.
Dunn concluded his career with a split season between the White Sox and Athletics in 2014.
Now 46, Dunn has added a fun honor to a great career.
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