A-Rod, Beltran, Pettitte fall short in HOF voting
NEW YORK — This 12 months’s poll for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum featured a number of fan favorites who spent parts of their profession in Yankees pinstripes, however the eligible voting members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America positioned none of them near Cooperstown.
Three celebrated outfielders who spent a part of their careers in New York rested just under Helton and Wagner: Andruw Jones (58.1 p.c), Gary Sheffield (55 p.c) and Carlos Beltran (46.5 p.c). This marked Jones’ sixth time on the poll, Sheffield’s ninth and Beltrán’s first.
Voters clearly wrestled to weigh Beltrán’s excellent 20-year profession with seven groups (together with the 2014-16 Yankees) in opposition to his connection to the 2017 Astros sign-stealing scandal, which resulted within the Mets dismissing him as their supervisor earlier than he’d even crammed out a lineup card.
One of solely 5 gamers at any place to gather not less than 500 doubles, 400 residence runs and 300 steals, together with Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Andre Dawson, Beltrán was the 1999 American League Rookie of the Year, a nine-time All-Star, a three-time Gold Glove Award winner and a two-time Silver Slugger. He is at present an analyst for the YES Network.
A-Rod (35.7 p.c) continues to take a seat properly shy of Hall induction in his second 12 months on the poll, regardless of accumulating 3,115 hits, 696 residence runs and a pair of,086 RBIs over a 22-year profession with the Mariners (1994-2000), Rangers (2001-03) and Yankees (2004-16).
A 3-time MVP, 14-time All-Star and 10-time Silver Slugger, Rodriguez’s statistical achievements alone would place him within the higher echelon of Cooperstown’s expertise. However, his candidacy is stained by performance-enhancing drug use, together with a 162-game suspension that price him the whole 2014 season — the longest such penalty levied up to now by Major League Baseball.
Andy Pettitte (17 p.c, fifth 12 months) and Bobby Abreu (15.4 p.c, fourth 12 months) had been the opposite former Yankees to obtain votes. Jacoby Ellsbury, a first-year candidate, didn’t garner the mandatory 5 p.c to stay on the poll.
