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Raines 'extremely honored and humbled' to land in HOF

Tim Raines / Twitter

"Rock" is in the Hall.

After he was formally announced as one of three players elected to the 2017 Hall of Fame class Wednesday, former big-league outfielder Tim Raines took to Twitter to thank the 86 percent of BBWAA voters who ticked his name in the selection for baseball's pantheon:

Raines also thanked the Canadian city of Montreal - appropriately in French - for his election. The 57-year-old made his debut with the Expos, spending 13 seasons with the club between 1979 and 1989, racking up 635 stolen bases and seven consecutive All-Star seasons while slashing .301/.391/.437 north of the border.

Raines will be inducted July 30 alongside Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez, who also surpassed the 75-percent threshold needed for eligibility. Former MLB commissioner Bud Selig and Atlanta Braves vice chairman John Schuerholz will also go in this summer as non-player inductees.

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