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01/20 17:28 CST Carlos Beltrn and Andruw Jones elected to baseball's Hall of
Fame
Carlos Beltrn and Andruw Jones elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --- Carlos Beltrn and Andruw Jones, center fielders who exceled
at the plate and with their gloves, were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on
Tuesday.
Beltrn, making his fourth appearance of the ballot, received 358 of 425 votes
for 84.2% from the Baseball Writers' Association of America, 39 above the 319
needed for the 75% threshold.
Jones, in the ninth of 10 possible appearances, was picked on 333 ballots for
78.4%
Beltrn moved up steadily from 46.5% in 2023 to 57.1% the following year and
70.3% in 2025, when he fell 19 votes short as Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and
Billy Wagner were elected.
Beltrn was hired as the New York Mets' manager on Nov. 1, 2019, then fired on
Jan. 16 without having managed a game, three days after he was the only Astros
player mentioned by name in a report by Major League Baseball regarding the
team's illicit use of electronics to steal signs during Houston's run to the
2017 World Series championship.
Jones received just 7.3% in his first appearance in 2018 and didn't get half
the total until receiving 58.1% in 2023. He increased to 61.6% and 66.2%,
falling 35 votes short last year.
They will be inducted at Cooperstown, New York, on July 26 along with second
baseman Jeff Kent, voted in last month by the contemporary era committee.
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