New Inductees
Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer are the newest MLB Hall of Fame members. All three reached the necessary 75% support on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Hall of Fame ballot.
Beltré received 95.1% of the vote in his first year. The third baseman is only one of two infielders with 3,000 hits and five Gold Gloves — the other being fellow Hall-of-Famer Derek Jeter. The Dodgers signed Beltré as a 15-year-old out of the Dominican Republic in 1994, and he made his major league debut in June of 1998. With a career slash line of .