Where Beltrán, Pettitte and others stand in HOF vote

The Hall of Fame spells of Carlos Beltrán, Andy Pettitte and others are expected to be revealed Tuesday night.

That’s when the National Baseball Hall of Fame is expected to announce the remainder of its 2026 class, as decided by voters of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA).

Candidates must appear on at least 75% of BBWAA ballots to be elected and at least 5% to remain on next year’s ballot. Each candidate benefits from 10 years of eligibility.

And while the official results won’t be known until they are revealed during Tuesday night’s MLB Network broadcast, enough ballots have been made public to give an idea of ​​where most former players stand.

As of Monday morning, 217 ballots — or about 51.2 percent — had been included in Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall of Fame tracker.

At this point, Beltrán was on 88.9 percent of known ballots, putting the former Mets and Yankees outfielder in a strong position for his fourth year of eligibility.

Beltrán hit .279 with 435 home runs, 1,587 RBIs and 312 stolen bases over 20 MLB seasons from 1998 to 2017 with the Kansas City Royals, Houston Astros, Mets, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Yankees and Texas Rangers.

The slugger, who played for the Mets from 2005 to 2011, is one of five players to have hit at least 500 doubles, 400 home runs and 300 stolen bases.

Beltrán’s Hall of Fame candidacy is complicated by his connection to the Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal, as he was the only player named in the MLB investigation that concluded in 2020.

But support for Beltrán has increased every year since he has been on the ballot, as he rose from 46.5% of the vote in 2023 to 57.1% in 2024 and 70.3% last year.

Andruw Jones, who was on 83.9% of ballots as of Monday morning, is also in line to be inducted this year.

Jones, in his ninth year of eligibility, finished his 17-season career from 1996-2012 with just 1,933 hits, but the former center fielder hit 454 home runs and won 10 Gold Glove Awards.

He spent his first 12 seasons with the Atlanta Braves before playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Rangers, Chicago White Sox and Yankees.

As of Monday morning, Beltrán and Jones were the only players to appear on more than 75% of known ballots.

Chase Utley was at 67.7%, while Felix Hernandez was at 57.1%.

Notably, former Yankees star Pettitte was up 56.7% in his eighth year of eligibility.

This is a significant jump from last year, when Pettitte finished with 27.9% of the vote, and to 2024, when the former left-hander was on 14.4% of the vote.

Pettitte has received a boost recently thanks in part to similarities between his stats and those of former teammate CC Sabathia, who was a first-ballot Hall of Famer last year.

In 18 seasons, Pettitte went 256-153 with a 3.85 ERA and 2,448 strikeouts in 3,316 innings. He won five World Series with the Yankees and his 19 postseason victories are the most in MLB history.

Sabathia, who is also left-handed, went 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA and 3,093 strikeouts in 3,577.1 innings over 19 seasons.

“[Being inducted] would be a wonderful blessing and honor,” Pettitte said last summer at Alumni Day in the Bronx.

“I mean, really, what can you say? What an incredible honor. I really don’t know what else to say about it. It would be amazing, and I would feel very blessed and lucky. I would never, ever dream [of it].”

Pettitte admitted to using human growth hormone (HGH) in 2002 and 2004 to try to recover from injuries. But the substance was not banned by MLB at the time, nor tested.

In the eyes of some voters, that makes his case different from those of Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, who served PED suspensions after MLB introduced league-wide drug testing.

As of Monday morning, Rodriguez was on 42.4 percent of the vote in his fifth year of eligibility, while Ramirez was behind him with 39.6 percent in his 10th and final year.

This year’s Hall of Fame class already includes Jeff Kent, who was elected last month by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.

Last year’s class included five members: Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner, who were elected by the BBWAA; as well as Dick Allen and Dave Parker, elected by the Classic Baseball Era Committee.