report by MLB<\/a> regarding the team’s illicit use of electronics to steal signs during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series championship.<\/p>\n“We all did what we did. Looking back today, we were wrong,” Beltr\u00e1n said on the Yankees’ YES Network broadcast in 2022, after he was hired as an analyst. “I wish I would’ve asked more questions about what we were doing. I wish the organization would’ve said to us, `Hey man, what you guys are doing, we need to stop this.'” \u00a0<\/p>\n
Jones hit .254 with 434 homers, 1,289 RBIs and 152 stolen bases in 17 seasons with Atlanta (1996-2007), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2008), Texas (2009), the Chicago White Sox (2010) and the Yankees (2011-12). He finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League from 2013-14.<\/p>\n
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Andruw Jones of the Atlanta Braves in action during a game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on May 29, 1998.<\/p>\n
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This was Jones’ ninth year of eligibility. Players only remain on the ballot for 10 years.<\/p>\n
A five-time All-Star, Jones earned 10 Gold Gloves. \u00a0<\/p>\n
His batting average is the second-lowest for a position player voted to the Hall of Fame, just above the .253 of Ray Schalk, a superior defensive catcher, and just below the .256 of Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 homers. But, according to MLB, Jones ranked third in Baseball-Reference WAR (57.6) from 1998 to 2007, behind only Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n
In the 1996 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium, at 19 years, 5 months, Jones became the youngest player to homer in a World Series game, beating Mickey Mantle’s old mark by 18 months. Going deep against Andy Pettitte in the second inning and Brian Boehringer in the third of a 12-1 rout, Jones became the second player to homer in his first two Series at-bats after Gene Tenace in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Beltr\u00e1n and Andruw Jones have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the league announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,19,4,8001],"class_list":{"0":"post-529912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-national-baseball-hall-of-fame-and-museum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115930093171255767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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