Carlos Beltran must wait a minimum of one other yr for his probability to be enshrined in Cooperstown after he missed out on being within the class of 2025 Baseball Corridor of Fame inductees that was introduced on Tuesday evening.
And one among his former managers isn’t thrilled.
Beltran, who performed 20 years in MLB and frolicked with the Mets, Royals, Yankees, Cardinals, Astros, Rangers and Giants, obtained 70.3 p.c of the vote (277 of 294 votes) from the Baseball Writers Affiliation of America Corridor of Fame voters.
The brink that wanted to be reached was 75 p.c of the vote.
This marks the third time that Beltran had been on the poll and noticed him inch nearer to changing into immortalized in Cooperstown, after receiving 57.1 p.c in 2024 and 46.5 p.c in 2023.
Beltran’s legacy took a success when he was the one participant publicly named in MLB’s investigation into the Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal.
His involvement ended up costing him the Mets managerial job in 2020.
Former Mets supervisor Terry Collins took concern with these nonetheless holding the sign-stealing scandal over Beltran’s head and utilizing it to justify holding him out of the Corridor of Fame.
“This Astros thing has gotten out of control now. The Hall of Fame is filled with guys who knew what pitches were coming at certain times, so I’m a little tired of hearing him being held accountable,” Collins stated on SNY following the 2025 Corridor of Fame announcement. “He wasn’t even a starting player. It’s not like he benefited from what was going on. I think he’s being overly penalized. He lost the managerial job because of this. He’s paid his price. He’s a Hall of Fame player and he needs to be in the Hall of Fame.”
Beltran is seen as among the best switch-hitting outfielders ever and ended his profession with 435 residence runs and 1,587 RBIs whereas posting a .279 batting common.
A few of his greatest years got here in a Mets uniform, the place he spent seven seasons and helped the group attain the NLCS in 2006, a yr the place he hit a career-best 41 residence runs with 115 RBIs and scored 127 runs through the common season.
With the Mets, Beltran hit .280 /.369/.500 whereas including 149 residence runs, 559 RBIs and 100 stolen bases.
He added 56 homers in three seasons with the Yankees within the twilight of his profession.
