{"id":2243217,"date":"2026-01-21T02:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2243217"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:44:30","slug":"former-royal-carlos-beltran-andruw-jones-elected-to-baseballs-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-royal-carlos-beltran-andruw-jones-elected-to-baseballs-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Royal Carlos Beltr\u00e1n, Andruw Jones elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK \u2014 Carlos Beltr\u00e1n and Andruw Jones, center fielders who excelled at the plate and with their gloves, were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n, making his fourth appearance of the ballot, received 358 of 425 votes for 84.2% from the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America, 39 above the 319 needed for the 75% threshold.<\/p>\n

Jones, in the ninth of 10 possible appearances, was picked on 333 ballots for 78.4%<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n was hired as the New York Mets’ manager<\/a> on Nov. 1, 2019, then fired on Jan. 16<\/a> 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\u2019s illicit use of electronics to steal signs<\/a> during Houston\u2019s run to the 2017 World Series championship.<\/p>\n

Jones received just 7.3% in his first appearance in 2018 and didn\u2019t get half the total until receiving 58.1% in 2023. He increased to 61.6% and 66.2%, falling 35 votes short last year.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years in the organization were eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

Chase Utley (59.1%) was the only other candidate to get at least half the vote, improving from 39.8% last year. He was followed by Andy Pettitte at 48.5%, an increase from 27.9% last year, and F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez at 46.1%, up from 20.6%.<\/p>\n

Cole Hamels topped first-time candidates at 23.8%. The other first-time players were all under 5% and will be dropped from future votes.<\/p>\n

Steroids-tainted players again were kept from the hall. Alex Rodriguez received 40% in his fifth appearance, up from 7.1%, and Manny Ramirez 38.8% in his 10th and final appearance.<\/p>\n

David Wright increased to 14.8% from 8.1%.<\/p>\n

There were 11 blank ballots.<\/p>\n

A nine-time All-Star, the switch-hitting Beltr\u00e1n batted .279 with 435 homers and 1,587 RBIs over 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, \u201917), 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 right,<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year and won three Gold Gloves, also hitting .307 in the postseason with 16 homers and 42 RBIs in 65 games.<\/p>\n

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 finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan\u2019s Pacific League from 2013-14.<\/p>\n

His batting average is the second-lowest for a position player voted to the Hall of Fame, just above the .253 of Ray Schalk, a superior defensive catcher, and just below the .256 of Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 homers.<\/p>\n

A five-time All-Star, Jones earned 10 Gold Gloves. He joins Braves teammates Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Chipper Jones in the hall along with manager Bobby Cox.<\/p>\n

In the 1996 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium, Jones at 19 years, 5 months became the youngest player to homer in a Series game, beating Mickey Mantle\u2019s old mark by 18 months. Going deep against Pettitte in the second inning and Brian Boehringer in the third of a 12-1 rout, Jones became the second player to homer in his first two Series at-bats after Gene Tenace in 1972.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n