2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot: Who Should Be In?

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00:00So let's take a look at some first-time members on the ballot here.

00:03And, you know, when you look at it, there's a funny Twitter handle of the Hall of Very Good.

00:08It does seem like there's a lot of the Hall of Very Good with Braun and Chu, Encarnacion, Cole Hamels.

00:14I can't even know all these names. None of them are getting in.

00:16I don't even know why I'm even going down this road.

00:18So those are the names right there, some of them.

00:21And then Kendrick, Marcakis, Daniel Murphy, Pence, Porcello, Kemp.

00:24No Hall of Famers are getting in from any of that.

00:27So let's go to some possibilities here.

00:30I think the one that's going to get in, I can give you my opinion, sure.

00:33But I do think Andrew Jones is going to get voted in the Hall of Fame this year.

00:36So he will be one.

00:37I was going to ask you about Jones.

00:39Yeah, I think he will.

00:40So that'll be the one.

00:41And I do think, you know, Dale Murphy will get in through the committee.

00:45So they'll have two Braves going in.

00:46They'll make it a whole Braves thing.

00:47You know, they're not stupid.

00:48They know how to do these things.

00:50Let's focus on Carlos Beltran, who had 2,700 career hits, over 400 home runs.

00:56He's on the ballot here again.

00:59And had he not had the cheating stuff with Houston, he'd be in already.

01:03I mean, I don't think there's any question about that.

01:05He's got the numbers to do it.

01:07But I think that that's why he was held back at least initially.

01:09And I do feel like he'll get in the Hall of Fame.

01:11But what do you think?

01:12Is this a time for him?

01:12I think this is the year for the reasons that you kind of laid out as well, right?

01:17There's not a lot of other players that I think are pulling for your vote.

01:21And you start to look across.

01:23And I think it allows these voters to maybe reexamine a bit more of some of the guys that

01:28were on the fringes or that are close.

01:30I mean, when you look at from a war perspective, from an F war perspective on fan graph side,

01:3567 with Carlos Beltran.

01:37But it's also the different ways he impacted the game, right?

01:40I mean, to be a switch hitter, his legs were an impact at times.

01:43The defense was an impact at times.

01:45He could slug.

01:45He could hit for average.

01:46I mean, he's just one of the archetypes of fires that you just you dream of having and

01:50doing it for as long as he did.

01:52I think the consistency, I feel like I was going to ask you, do you feel like it's really

01:57just because it's also 70 B war as well when you look at it from that perspective?

02:02Yeah, he didn't win the MVP, but the accumulation there, is it really just the Astros thing you

02:07think that's holding him out?

02:08Yes, of course.

02:09Yes.

02:10Yes, of course.

02:11So, so yes, that's part of it.

02:14But the other part of it is that what is the what is the lasting memory of that incident?

02:21It's not of him cheating and getting caught.

02:24It's I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's him being named the Mets manager and then not being

02:28the Mets manager, right?

02:29Like that, that's the last that's the last thing that happened to Carlos Beltran.

02:34So I think when people are trying to live in the moment, they say to themselves, yeah,

02:39I mean, Beltran was a great player and it had, and by the way, Ram, had it just happened

02:43at that and that's it and he retired and he like Brian McCann did like, okay, like we

02:48just never hear about it again.

02:49And now we start evaluating.

02:50But the dude was named the manager of the Mets and then like, like had to resign like quick

02:55after that.

02:56And, and I think that that's part of the equation.

02:59Do I think he's still a Hall of Famer?

03:01Do I think Altuve is?

03:02Do I think maybe Bregman or Correa will be?

03:04Yes.

03:04All of those guys.

03:05I'm fine with it.

03:07AJ Hinch.

03:07I mean, he's one of the best managers in baseball.

03:09He got another job and look what he did for Detroit.

03:11Like, I mean, come on, it's ridiculous already, but I do think, I do think that's what's holding

03:15him back.

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