I highly doubt he gets more than mild support and stays in the 15-20% range. You figure he is a marginal HOF'er to begin with, then he has two instances of PED's that he admits to. One is bad enough, but he is admitting to two, so who really knows if there isn't more. I think without the PED's, he would have been in the 30% range his first year(and slowly went up), so you have to figure some of those 30% voters aren't going to vote for him now.
I can't imagine he is going to be the one that breaks the pattern for PED guys, way too borderline and it is easier to just say no.
Pretending that he didn't have the PED's, if Jack Morris doesn't get in, how could Pettitte. He wasn't as good as Morris and he will be on his 15th ballot next with a good shot to miss due to the crowded ballot. Blyleven took 15 tries too.
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