MLB fans question Carlos Beltran's Hall of Fame election after sign-stealing scandal

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Carlos Beltran was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the writers connected Tuesday nighttime aft a stellar vocation astatine the sheet and being straight tied to the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal.

It’s the ties to the ungraded from the Astros’ 2017 World Series play that had shot fans scratching their heads arsenic to wherefore Beltran received capable votes to conscionable the threshold.

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Houston Astros designated hitter Carlos Beltran (15) is congratulated by teammates aft scoring successful the 4th inning against the Detroit Tigers astatine Comerica Park connected July 29, 2017. (Rick Osentoski/USA TODAY Sports)

They sounded disconnected connected societal media.

MLB’s report following its probe of the Astros recovered they broke rules for utilizing electronics to bargain signs connected their mode to winning the 2017 World Series. In the report, Beltran was specifically mentioned arsenic idiosyncratic who played a large relation successful it. In fact, helium was the lone idiosyncratic mentioned successful the report.

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New York Mets close fielder Carlos Beltran lunges for the shot during the 3rd inning of an MLB shot crippled against the Arizona Diamondbacks, April 22, 2011 successful New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)

This came retired arsenic Beltran was astir to instrumentality connected his archetypal play arsenic a manager successful MLB, thing he’s wanted to bash since leaving the crippled arsenic a player. But the Mets had to determination on, yet hiring Luis Rojas earlier helium was replaced by Buck Showalter at the opening of past year.

No ceremonial punishment was ever doled retired to the players. The Astros’ enactment was fined $5 cardinal and mislaid draught picks. Team proprietor Jeff Luhnow and then-manager A.J. Hinch were suspended for the 2020 play – which aboriginal became affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Beltran’s numbers astatine the sheet talk for itself.

He was a beingness .279 hitter with 435 location runs who was a nine-time All-Star and the 1999 American League Rookie of the Year. He played for the Astros, Mets, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. His vocation spanned 20 years.

Beltran received 84.2% of the ballot – a adjacent 14% summation from past year’s circular of voting. Still, nary superstars who were tied to MLB’s steroid ungraded person been elected.