Results of the Baseball Hall of Fame voting were released today, and three players were elected to the Hall:

Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez.

One of those guys … all for it. The other two … a little creepy, leaving me a lot worried about where this is headed.

And here is why.

For more than a decade, I was a Hall of Fame elector for the Baseball Writers Association of America, the veteran writers who vote for the game’s greatest career honor. And I continue to have an interest in how it turns out each year.

First, the easy one. Raines.

I was influenced by Bill James when it comes to the former Montreal Expos outfielder. James was convinced Raines was the second-greatest leadoff man in history, and I generally have trouble dismissing Bill James’s opinions.

But, then, I also pulled up Raines’s stats at baseballreference.com, and I was convinced he belonged, and I voted for him a time or two before leaving the country for Abu Dhabi in 2009 and losing my voting privileges.

It was the other two who give me pause.

In the final years of my voting for the Hall, I was ignoring everyone who had been suspended for the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

At the time, it was not a lot of people, and I was ticked off at what PEDs had done to baseball in the 1990s and into the first half of aughties. Guys like Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens took the game in directions it may not have gone, without drugs.

Stats became as bloated as the bodies of many stars. Roger Maris’s home run record was obliterated; random guys (hello, Brady Anderson) suddenly hit 40 or 50 homers in a season; entire teams of guys looked like they were made of cement poured into their uniforms. The game was warped by widespread PEDs abuse.

After a time, many of us thought we knew the signs of illicit behavior. The sudden power surges. The uniforms not quite capable of covering bulging muscles.

And then there were the guys who didn’t fail a test but had some of those signs. Bagwell fell into that group. He had great numbers, no question, but he also looked like no one still playing big-league baseball.

He never failed a drug test, though, and he wore down or outlasted the voters, in his seventh appearance on the ballot, and got 381 votes, one more than Raines, and appeared on 86.2 percent of 442 ballots.

Rodriguez going in on the first ballot is something of a surprise given his name appearing in Jose Canseco’s book Juiced … which to date has been shown to be highly accurate in its identification of PEDs users. Canseco said Rodriguez used PEDs; voters did not much care, as “Pudge” went in on the first ballot.

Rodriguez was a great defensive player who had astonishing longevity, among catchers. Of course, lots of astonishing things happened for about 15 years there.

The whole of the election, which saw Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens surge to over 50 percent of the vote (75 percent is needed to enter the Hall), showed a greater acceptance by electors for those who failed PEDs test.

I believe there are two reasons for this: 1) It is difficult to know who abused PEDs for much of the aughties, before baseball got serious about testing, and more and more voters have given up trying to winnow the cheaters from those who played fair; and 2) the change in the electorate, which two years ago shed more than 100 voters, most of them who covered baseball during the Steroids Era and typically were angriest about it.

When even Manny Ramirez, who twice was suspended for failed drugs tests, gaining bans of 50 and 100 games, appears on 23.8 percent of the ballots (as he did in his first year of eligibility), fans can be certain the views of voters are changing, and fairly quickly, too.

That isn’t necessarily good news.

I look forward to guys like Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman (narrow misses this year) getting into the Hall soon.

I will rue the day Bonds and Clemens are added, which may be only a year or two away.