COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Jeff Kent will have a San Francisco Giants hat on his Hall of Fame plaque, Carlos Beltr\u00e1n will have a New York Mets cap and Andruw Jones will have an Atlanta Braves logo.<\/p>\n
The hall announced its decisions Tuesday, two weeks after Beltr\u00e1n and Jones were elected by the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America<\/a>. Kent was voted into the hall in December by the contemporary era committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n Inductions will take place on July 26.<\/p>\n A five-time All-Star second baseman, Kent hit .290 with 377 homers and 1,518 RBIs over 17 seasons with Toronto (1992), the New York Mets (1992-96), Cleveland (1996), San Francisco (1997-2002), Houston (2003-04) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (2005-08). His six seasons with the Giants were his most with a big league team.<\/p>\n \u201cEach of the stops along my career path was important to me, but it was with the Giants where I had the most success and spent the most time during my career,\u201d Kent said.<\/p>\n A nine-time All-Star center fielder, the switch-hitting Beltr\u00e1n batted .279 with 435 homers and 1,587 RBIs over 20 seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, \u201917), the Mets (2005-11), San Francisco (2011), St. Louis (2012-13), the New York Yankees (20014-16) and Texas (2016). He earned five All-Star selections and three Gold Gloves with the Mets.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWith the Mets, I experienced my greatest individual growth and success,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said in a statement released by the hall. \u201cI\u2019m honored that my Hall of Fame plaque will feature the Mets logo.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones batted .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). The center fielder finished his career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan\u2019s Pacific League from 2013-14. He earned all five of his All-Star selections and all 10 of his Gold Gloves with the Braves.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Braves were the team that gave me my first opportunity to chase the dream I wanted since I was a little kid,\u201d Jones said in a statement. \u201cI am proud to wear the \u2018A\u2019 on my plaque.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Jeff Kent will have a San Francisco Giants hat on his Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,2178,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-561322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116036087654197238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561322","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=561322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}