{"id":553240,"date":"2026-02-04T00:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:16:17","slug":"carlos-beltran-will-wear-mets-cap-in-baseball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553240\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Beltran will wear Mets cap in Baseball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets will have a third former player representing the team on his Hall of Fame plaque.<\/p>\n

Carlos Beltr\u00e1n will wear a Mets cap on his plaque<\/a>, the Hall of Fame announced Tuesday, joining Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza as the only players in the franchise\u2019s history with such a designation.<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n told The Post last summer that his plan, if elected, was to wear a Mets cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. A source indicated that Beltr\u00e1n likely didn\u2019t immediately announce his intention after his election last month as a show of respect to the Royals, for whom he spent 6 \u00bd seasons to begin his career.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosCarlos Beltran playing for the Mets. Anthony J. Causi<\/p>\n

Also, Mets officials have discussed the possibility of retiring Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s No. 15 this season, according to a source. Already, the organization has ceremonies planned to induct members into the Mets Hall of Fame (Beltr\u00e1n, Lee Mazzilli and Bobby Valentine will be enshrined) and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the franchise\u2019s last World Series title in 1986. Team officials must decide if they want to have a third ceremony that would affix Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s number to the rafters.<\/p>\n

Beltr\u00e1n, now a special assistant with the Mets, played for the team from 2005-11 and produced an .869 OPS over that stretch. Some of his luster with the organization is obscured by the called third strike he took with the bases loaded against Adam Wainwright to end Game 7 of the NLCS against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Later, Beltr\u00e1n returned to the organization as manager. He was forced to resign after only 77 days as part of the fallout from the Astros\u2019 illegal sign-stealing scheme. Beltr\u00e1n was named as one of the ringleaders.<\/p>\n

If Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s involvement in the scheme stalled his Hall of Fame selection, the derailment was brief. This year, his fourth on the ballot, he obtained 84.2 percent of the vote by the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America to gain entrance into the Hall of Fame. A candidate needs to reach the 75 percent threshold for induction.<\/p>\n

Andruw Jones will join Beltr\u00e1n as a BBWAA inductee to the Hall of Fame in July. Also gaining induction was Jeff Kent, who was selected in December by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets will have a third former player representing the team on his Hall of Fame plaque. Carlos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553241,"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-553240","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\/116009487532319112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553240","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=553240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}