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Why Carlos Beltran is going into Hall of Fame in Mets hat, not Royals<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Carlos Beltran<\/a> had a tough choice to make.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n When he was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he had to choose what hat to wear on his plaque: the New York Mets<\/a>, or the Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some players go in with no logo, but most pick one, and there aren’t any two-logo hats in the Hall.<\/p>\n Beltran picked the Mets hat, and it’s a painful one for Royals fans to deal with.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Yankees’ Jose Caballero is pushing the limit of the rules<\/a><\/p>\n At the end of the day, it’s the player’s choice, and Beltran chose the team he spent the middle stages of his career with rather than the place he started.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The kid who came into professional baseball as a second-round pick by the Royals in 1995, the kid who learned from George Brett, will be immortalized with a Mets logo atop his head, not a K.C.<\/p>\n The reality is that, by the numbers, it was a really close call.<\/p>\n He played seven seasons apiece for the Royals and the Mets.<\/p>\n He played 839 games with the Mets, 795 with the Royals.<\/p>\n Beltran had 123 home runs with K.C. then hit 149 for New York.<\/p>\n He had 516 RBI with the Royals, then 559 with the Mets.<\/p>\n Beltran stole more with the Royals, 164 to 100 with the Mets.<\/p>\n His .287 average with K.C. was slightly higher, relative to .280 with the Mets. But it was an .869 OPS with the Mets, compared to .835 with the Royals.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Beltran won Rookie of the Year with the Royals.<\/p>\n He made four All-Star Games with the Mets, compared to just one with the Royals (although he somehow missed an All-Star Game in K.C. in a season he finished ninth in MVP voting).<\/p>\n Beltran also spent time with the Astros<\/a>, Yankees, Cardinals<\/a>, Rangers and Giants, but none of them would’ve been in consideration here.<\/p>\n He simply chose the Mets over the Royals.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why Carlos Beltran is going into Hall of Fame in Mets hat, not Royals originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. 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