Next year’s Hall of Fame ballot will be a really interesting one. There’s one strong newcomer (see below) but there are no slam-dunk first-ballot choices like we saw with Ichiro Suzuki last year, and there are no players coming back to the ballot who just missed—both Beltrán and Jones were over 65% last year and needed to make only small jumps in support to make it.

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, joining Contemporary Era Committee selection Jeff Kent as the inductees for the class of 2026. As a reminder, players receiving at least 75% of the vote are enshrined into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown during the summer.

A few short decades ago, the idea of a pitcher with only 200 wins or a hitter with only 1,500 hits getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame would have been laughable.

Buster Posey is expected to be the top newcomer on baseball's 2027 Hall of Fame ballot. There are no first-ballot inductees this year after the results were announced Tuesday night.

The Broncos and Patriots square off in the AFC, and the Rams and Seahawks go head-to-head in the NFC. It should be a terrific day of football, and our own John Breech peered into his crystal ball to make picks and predictions on each game.

Chase Utley, Cole Hamels and Jimmy Rollins fell short of election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2026. See how close they got on the ballot.

Mets legend Carlos Beltran was asked which cap he will have on his plaque when he's inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, and said it's a choice between two teams.