After falling just short twice, will Lou Piniella be elected to the Hall of Fame this time?

Lou Piniella is back on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, again giving him a shot at Cooperstown after coming one vote short in each of his two prior Contemporary Baseball Era election attempts.

The Hall of Fame announced an eight-candidate Contemporary Baseball Era ballot (managers, executives and umpires). A 16-member panel made up of Hall of Fame players, Major League executives, media members and historians will vote, and each candidate must receive a minimum of 12 votes (at least 75%) to be elected.

Piniella, 83, is among the managers on this year’s ballot. The other names highlighted include Sandy Alderson, Dusty Baker, Bruce Bochy, Joe Maddon, Brian Sabean, Ted Turner and Bill White.

This is not the first time Piniella has been in this voting window. According to MLB, he has previously “come painfully close” to election on two prior ballots, missing induction by one vote both times.

Piniella’s case rests on a 23-season managing career across five franchises, spanning 1,835 wins (listed as a 17th-place total all-time at the time of the announcement). MLB also notes he is already connected to the sport’s Hall of Fame pipeline through the managers ahead of him on the all-time wins list, with 12 of the 16 ahead already inducted.

His career includes multiple postseason trips, and MLB points to his first year in Cincinnati in 1990 as the defining highlight, when the Reds won the World Series over the heavily favored Athletics after running the NL West “wire-to-wire.”