Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a vote by the Baseball Chroniclers of America on Tuesday.
They will be inducted into Cooperstown on July 26 alongside second baseman Jeff Kent, who was elected in December by the Contemporary Era Committee.
A nine-time All-Star, Beltrán had a .279 batting average with 435 home runs and 1,587 RBIs in 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, 2017), New York Mets (2005-2011), San Francisco (2011), St. Louis (2014-2016) and Texas (2016).
He was named American Rookie of the Year in 1999 by the Kansas Royals and won three Gold Gloves.
Beltran also stole 312 bases in 361 attempts.
In the playoffs, he maintained a .307 batting average with 16 home runs and 42 RBIs in 65 games.
Beltrán was hired as Mets manager on Nov. 1, 2019, and fired on Jan. 16 without managing a single game, three days after he was the only Astros player named by name in an MLB report on the team’s illicit use of electronic devices to steal signs during Houston’s 2017 World Series victory.
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Andrew Jones
Jones had a .254 batting average with 434 home runs, 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 (2011-2012).
In 2005, he led the majors with 51 home runs and the Nationals with 128 RBIs, which allowed him to finish second in MVP voting, awarded to Albert Pujols.
He finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Japanese Pacific League (2013-2014).
His batting average is the second lowest for a player elected to the Hall, just above that of Ray Schalk (.253), an excellent defensive catcher, and just below that of Harmon Killebrew (.256), who hit 573 home runs.
A five-time All-Star, Jones won 10 Gold Gloves.
Only Willie Mays has more than him, with 12.
In Game 1 of the 1996 World Series at Yankee Stadium, Jones became, at 19 years and five months, the youngest player to hit a home run in the Fall Classic, breaking Mickey Mantle’s record by 18 months.
