\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt the Astros situation has been a topic,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said, adding that it wasn\u2019t \u201cpositive\u201d for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, when I look at my career, when I look at the things in the game of baseball, there\u2019s no doubt you\u2019re gonna go through ups and downs,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna make good decisions [and] you\u2019re gonna make so-so decisions, right? And, also, you\u2019re gonna make bad decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
That includes his involvement in Houston\u2019s plan to steal signs in 2017 \u2014 which included the banging of trash cans to alert hitters of pitches\u2014 including in the playoffs, when they beat the Yankees in the ALCS on their way to a championship in Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s final season of his playing career.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I retired from baseball, I thought everything I built\u2026 meaning like relationships and good people, I was able to relate myself with, I thought that was gonna be lost,\u2019\u2019 said Beltr\u00e1n, who later worked for the Yankees and is currently a special advisor for the Mets. \u201cBeing back in the game, I still receive love from the people. I still receive love from the players. The teammates inside the clubhouse know the type of person that I am. At the same time, I understand that\u2019s also a story I have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now he can tell that story as a Hall of Famer, as Beltr\u00e1n will be enshrined in July, alongside Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent, another former Met.<\/p>\n
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Carlos Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s involvement in the Astros sign-stealing scandal did not end up costing him a spot in the Hall of Fame. Paul J. Bereswill<\/p>\n
Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s rise up the ballot was steady in his four years, beginning at 46.5 percent in his first year of eligibility to 70.3 percent last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s wrestled with his reputation for years, telling The Post in 2022 that he knew many fans would not be as forgiving as some of his ex-teammates and even opponents. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s a battle I will not win,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said then of his standing with many fans. \u201cNo matter how much I try to excuse what I did in the whole situation, I will not win. I know that when I\u2019m around [the ballpark] and around the players, they acknowledge me and shake my hand. The perception I had from the fans, I lost some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He remains respected around the game and said Tuesday he hasn\u2019t given up on his goal of possibly managing.<\/p>\n
Beltr\u00e1n said the fact he\u2019s able to work with the Mets and owner Steve Cohen has allowed him to stay \u201crelevant\u201d in the game and perhaps boosts his chances of getting back in the dugout after his first attempt was derailed by the reports of the scandal in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cManaging is something I\u2019d love to try at some point if God gave me the opportunity,\u2019\u2019 Beltr\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s involvement in the Astros sign-stealing scandal on their way to the 2017 World Series title tarnished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1708,325,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-530666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","10":"tag-carlos-beltran","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115932475756812935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530666","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=530666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}