Baseball is still dealing with some of the ugliness of its past when it comes to the Hall of Fame.
to the Baseball Hall of Fame last year, his first time on the ballot, and his chances don’t look much better heading into Tuesday’s announcement.
As of Monday evening, according to ballot tracker @NotMrTibs, Rodriguez was at 40.0 percent — after 34.3 percent last year — while Beltran was at 55.7, both well short of the 75 percent needed among BBWAA voters, with 46.7 percent of ballots having been publicly revealed. Beltran was the only player punished for the Astros’ scandal, since players were granted immunity for cooperating with MLB’s investigation, but Beltran retired as a player following that season.
After taking the broadcasting job with YES in March — a job to which he’s scheduled to return to this season — Beltran admitted the Astros did “cross the line.” In May, Beltran told The Post regarding his future in the game, “I hope people have seen how I feel about how everything played out and the person I am. What happened, everyone knows what happened. It was a team. The fact I was in trouble [as the only player], that’s the hard part. But I’ve got to move forward.
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