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Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones, middle fielders who excelled on the plate and with their gloves, have been elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
Beltrán, making his fourth look of the poll, obtained 358 of 425 votes for 84.2% from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, 39 above the 319 wanted for the 75% threshold.
Jones, within the ninth of 10 doable appearances, was picked on 333 ballots for 78.4%
Beltrán moved up steadily from 46.5% in 2023 to 57.1% the next yr and 70.3% in 2025, when he fell 19 votes quick as Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner have been elected.
Beltrán was employed because the New York Mets’ supervisor on Nov. 1, 2019, then fired on Jan. 16 with out having managed a recreation, three days after he was the one Astros participant talked about by identify in a report by Major League Baseball relating to the workforce’s illicit use of electronics to steal indicators throughout Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series championship.
Jones obtained simply 7.3% in his first look in 2018 and didn’t get half the full till receiving 58.1% in 2023. He elevated to 61.6% and 66.2%, falling 35 votes quick final yr.
They will likely be inducted at Cooperstown, New York, on July 26 together with second baseman Jeff Kent, voted in final month by the modern period committee.
BBWAA members with 10 or extra consecutive years within the group have been eligible to vote.
Chase Utley (59.1%) was the one different candidate to get no less than half the vote, bettering from 39.8% final yr. He was adopted by Andy Pettitte at 48.5%, a rise from 27.9% final yr, and Félix Hernández at 46.1%, up from 20.6%.
Cole Hamels topped first-time candidates at 23.8%. The different first-time gamers have been all underneath 5% and will likely be dropped from future votes.
Steroids-tainted gamers once more have been stored from the corridor. Alex Rodriguez obtained 40% in his fifth look, up from 7.1%, and Manny Ramirez 38.8% in his tenth and ultimate look.
David Wright elevated to 14.8% from 8.1%.
There have been 11 clean ballots.
A nine-time All-Star, the switch-hitting Beltrán batted .279 with 435 homers and 1,587 RBIs over 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, ’17), the Mets (2005-11), San Francisco (2011), St. Louis (2012-13), the New York Yankees (20014-16) and Texas (2016). He had 311 homers hitting left-handed and 124 batting proper,
Beltrán was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year and received three Gold Gloves, additionally hitting .307 within the postseason with 16 homers and 42 RBIs in 65 video games.
Jones batted .254 with 434 homers, 1,289 RBIs and 152 stolen bases in 17 seasons with Atlanta (1996-2007), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2008), Texas (2009), the Chicago White Sox (2010) and the Yankees (2011-12). He completed his profession with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League from 2013-14.
His batting common is the second-lowest for a place participant voted to the Hall of Fame, simply above the .253 of Ray Schalk, a superior defensive catcher, and just under the .256 of Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 homers.
A five-time All-Star, Jones earned 10 Gold Gloves. He joins Braves teammates Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Chipper Jones within the corridor together with supervisor Bobby Cox.
In the 1996 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium, Jones at 19 years, 5 months turned the youngest participant to homer in a Series recreation, beating Mickey Mantle’s previous mark by 18 months. Going deep in opposition to Pettitte within the second inning and Brian Boehringer within the third of a 12-1 rout, Jones turned the second participant to homer in his first two Series at-bats after Gene Tenace in 1972.