The statistics will show that Carlos Beltran is one of the finest center fielders who ever played the game, but behind the scenes, the man was even greater. And that's why Cooperstown's should be calling, BNightengale writes.
When Beltran retired after the 2017 season, the only question was who’d be fortunate enough to hire him as a manager or front office executive. The New York Yankees hired him as a special adviser to GM Brian Cashman, and he was hired after the 2019 season to manage the New York Mets. Beltran was the only player who was cited in MLB’s investigation, and days after the report was released, the Mets fired him before he even stepping onto the practice field.
Now, the Baseball Writers' Association of America is taking its turn punishing Beltran, too. He will not be elected in this year’s Hall of Fame class. Beltran is gathering only 56.1% of the votes, according toBeltran is the only center fielder in baseball who accumulated at least a 70 WAR, and is not in the Hall of Fame. He’s the only switch-hitter in baseball history to reach 2,500 hits , hit 300 homers , and steal 300 bases .
Beltran’s wrongdoing was helping develop a system in which a center-field camera intercepted the opposing catcher’s signals, viewed on a monitor behind the dugout, and relayed to a hitter by banging on a trash can. Everyone had the option of accepting the signs, or disregarding them. “If the organization would’ve said something to us,’’ Beltran told the YES Network last year where he was employed as an analyst, “we would’ve stopped it for sure.’’ It is not only brutally unfair, but egregiously cruel. Beltran received my Hall of Fame vote, and will continue to do so as long as he remains on the ballot.
Third baseman Scott Rolen is the only one who has a shot to join him, and if not, this will be the third time since 2013 that the Baseball Writers Association did not elect a candidate. “That’s the whole reason I signed up, trying to win this thing,’’ said Trout, who’s playing in the WBC for the first time in his 13-year career. “There is nothing else. Anything else is a failure.’’
Oh, and the trash talk has already started with Ohtani telling Trout that he’s not even the best player on the Japanese team. ► Dana Brown, Atlanta’s vice president of scouting, has emerged as the clear front-runner to become the Astros' next general manager. Arraez was a White Sox killer last year, hitting .373 with a 1.273 OPS against them last season, and has a career .327 batting average against the White Sox.
► While it’s wonderful that the Chicago Cubs honored Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston by electing them to their Hall of Fame, it’s a travesty that Sammy Sosa isn’t in the Cubs Hall of Fame. “He followed the rules and integrity and played the game the right way. Integrity is on the seal of the Baseball Hall of Fame.’’
► The White Sox, who picked second baseman Nick Madrigal in the first round of the 2018 draft and traded him to the Cubs in 2021 for veteran closer Craig Kimbrel, now have a chance to get him back. ► The Yankees once again stayed out of the marquee shortstop market, and are now a year closer to seeing if their evaluations that prospect Anthony Volpe or Oswald Peraza will be everyday shortstops in 2023, or will again turn to veteran Isiah Kiner-Falefa.
“There’s not a day that I go through where I don’t think about that man,’’ McEwing said of Kissell at the Cardinals’ Winter Warmup event. “As a teacher, as a mentor, as a friend. I feel like he’s on my shoulder when I’m teaching, and it’s like, ‘Oh, OK,’ you know. It’s every word that he expressed to me or expressed to others that I learned from, and it’s just the passing down of generation to generation.
► Aroldis Chapman went from earning $16 million a year to $3.75 million in his new deal with the Kansas City Royals. ► The Baltimore Orioles are the first team in 20 years to have consecutive No. 1 prospects from the same draft since Baseball America began its rankings in 1990. Catcher Adley Rutschman was the first round pick in the 2019 draft and infielder Gunnar Henderson was the second pick in the draft.
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