{"id":26310,"date":"2025-01-16T01:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26310"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:13:19","slug":"breaking-carlos-beltrans-hall-of-fame-possibility-presents-mets-fans-a-curveball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26310","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Carlos Beltran\u2019s Hall of Fame possibility presents Mets fans a curveball"},"content":{"rendered":"

We might as well start talking about this now. As early as next Tuesday, it\u2019s at least possible that Carlos Beltran will earn the 75 percent of the vote necessary to gain entrance to the Hall of Fame. And when that happens \u2014 if not now, then some year soon \u2014 it\u2019s going to be a most interesting thing to watch how Mets fans react.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, the Cooperstown-tracking service dutifully conducted by the great Ryan Thibodaux (@notmrtibbs.com on Bluesky) projected two virtual shoo-ins for induction with 37.8 percent of the voting body revealing their ballots: Ichiro Suzuki (100 percent so far) and ex-Yankee CC Sabathia (92.6 percent).<\/p>\n

Billy Wagner, who closed for the Mets in addition to four other teams, also looks like a fairly good bet to be honored this summer in his final appearance on the ballot; he sits at 84.5 percent (after falling just shy, at 73.8 percent, last year).<\/p>\n

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Carlos Beltran was the Mets\u2019 manager for nearly three months during the offseason before being let go for his role in the Astros betting scandal. He did not coach a game for the Amazin\u2019s. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beltran, for now, is the only other name sitting north of the cutline, at 79.1 percent, with Andruw Jones resting just south, at 74.3 percent. Beltran finished at 57.1 percent last year, and the way these things generally go, we can surmise two things:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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