Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Tuesday while Billy Wagner and Gary Sheffield fell short. Beltré was picked on 366 of 385 ballots from the Baseball Writers' Association of America in his first ballot appearance for 95.1%. Helton received 307 votes for 79.7% in his sixth appearance, 18 more than the needed 289 for 75% after falling 11 votes short last year.
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Adrián Beltré will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. But neither Beltré nor seven other former Dodgers on the ballot would wear an L.A. cap if inducted.
Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton appeared on track to gain entry to baseball's Hall of Fame when results are announced Tuesday, while Billy Wagner was likely to be right around the needed 75% threshold and Gary Sheffield was projected to fall short. Just 270 players are in the Hall, 1.3% of the approximately 20,500 who have appeared in the major leagues, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. “These votes are literally life-changing,” said The Athletic's Jayson Stark, who has cast ballots for three decades.
There are an unusually high number of viable candidates and accompanying storylines leading up to Tuesday’s 6 p.m. announcement of voting results for baseball’s latest Hall of Fame class. How close will longtime Rangers star third baseman Adrian Beltre come to being a unanimous selection? Will Joe Mauer, who had a spectacular but abbreviated career as a catcher before health issues forced a .