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Carlos Beltrán and Andrew Jones appear to be on their way to election to the Baseball Hall of Fame

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NEW YORK (AP) – Center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andrew Jones appeared to be on track for election to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America poll was announced.

As of Monday evening, Beltrán had been nominated on 89.2% of the 223 votes cast in advance and tabulated on Ryan Thibodaux’s online vote tracker, just over half of the estimated total cast. Jones was at 83%, like Beltrán more than the 75% needed to be inducted into the sanctuary in Cooperstown, New York.

Appearing on his fourth ballot, Beltrán rose slightly from 46.5% in 2023 to 57.1% the following year and 70.3% in 2025, when he dropped 19 votes as Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected.

Jones is ninth on the 10th most votes. He received just 7.3% in his first appearance in 2018 – his 31 votes were more than the 22 needed to remain eligible for future BBWAA votes. He didn’t get half of the total until he got 58.1% in 2023, then it went up to 61.6% and 66.2%, down 35 votes in 2025.

Whoever is chosen will be elected on July 26 along with running back Jeff Kent, who was voted in last month by the current committee after receiving a BBWAA-high 46.5% of the vote when he was on the ballot from 2014-23.

BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years in the organization were eligible to vote.

Beltrán’s case

A nine-time All-Star, Beltrán hit .279 with 435 homers and 1,587 RBIs in 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, ’17), New York Mets (2005-11), San Francisco (2011), New York Yankees (3), St. Louis (3). (20014-16) and Texas (2016).

He was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year and won three Gold Gloves, and hit .307 in the postseason with 16 homers and 42 RBIs in 65 games.

Beltrán was hired as the manager of the Mets on Nov. 1, 2019, and was fired on Jan. 16 without managing a game, three days after he was the only Astros player named in a Major League Baseball report about the team’s illegal use of electronic sign-stealing devices during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series.

“We all did what we did. Looking back today, we were wrong,” Beltrán said on YES Network radio in 2022, after being hired as an analyst. “I wish I had asked more questions about what we were doing. I wish the organization would have said to us, “Hey guys, what you are doing, we have to stop this.”

The case of Jones

Jones hit .254 with 434 homers, 1,289 RBIs and 152 stolen bases in 17 seasons with Atlanta (1996-2007), Los Angeles Dodgers (2008), Texas (2009), Chicago White Sox (2010) and Yankees (2011-1). He finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League from 2013-14.

His batting average would be the second lowest for a position player voted into the Hall of Fame, just above the .253 of Ray Schalk, the top defensive catcher, and just below the .256 of Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 homers.

A five-time All-Star, Jones earned 10 Gold Gloves.

In the opening game of the 1996 World Series at Yankee Stadium, at age 19, 5 months, Jones became the youngest player to hit a homer in a Series game, beating Mickey Mantle’s old mark by 18 months. Leading off against Andy Pettitte in the second inning and Brian Boehringer in the third in the 12-1 playoffs, Jones became the second player to homer in his first two Series at-bats since Gene Tenace in 1972.

He seemed to fall to the ground

Chase Utley (68.2%), Pettitte (57.4%) and Félix Hernández (56.5%) were the only other candidates who received at least half of the votes revealed in the tracker before the announcement.

Utley was third in the poll after receiving 28.8% and then 39.8% last year, while Hernández received 20.6% last year in his first appearance on the ballot.

Pettitte, in the eighth election, has gone up a lot. He got 9% in his first appearance in 2019, 13.5% in 2024 and 27.9% last year.

Cole Hamels at 31.4% had the highest rate among a dozen rookies in the 27-man poll.

Alex Rodriguez (43% in the fifth appearance) and Manny Ramirez (40.4% in the 10th appearance) are shy. Both were given temporary suspensions for performance-enhancing drug violations.

Looking ahead

Buster Posey and Jon Lester are the top picks on the BBWAA ballot for 2027, followed by Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina in 2028, and Miguel Cabrera, Zack Greinke and Joey Votto in 2029.

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