{"id":289022,"date":"2025-11-17T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:27:11","slug":"ranking-every-player-on-the-2026-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Every Player on the 2026 MLB Hall of Fame Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Stats:\u00a02,784 G, 140 OPS-plus, 3,115 H, 696 HR, 2,086 RBI, 329 SB<br \/>WAR: <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodrial01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">117.6<\/a><br \/>Accolades:\u00a014x All-Star, 2x Gold Glove, 10x Silver Slugger, 3x AL MVP, 1x WS winner<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Everyone ranked below Alex Rodriguez on this list is either also a PED user, a fringe Hall of Fame candidate or a &#8220;Hall of Very Good&#8221; player. Everyone ranked ahead of him should be considered a slam-dunk Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A-Rod is being used at the dividing line because in terms of statistical production, he is one of the greatest players to step onto a baseball field. He successfully lived up to the immense hype that surrounded him when he was chosen No. 1 overall in the 1993 draft and then made his MLB debut a year later at the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rodriguez\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3894847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">admitted to using PEDs<\/a>\u00a0during his time with the Texas Rangers, and after watching Barry Bonds fall off the ballot without getting to 75 percent, it&#8217;s likely he will suffer a similar fate. So far, he has received 34.3, 35.7, 34.8 and 37.1 percent of the vote in his four years of eligibility, and this year will be telling with a thinned out ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stats:\u00a02,784 G, 140 OPS-plus, 3,115 H, 696 HR, 2,086 RBI, 329 SBWAR: 117.6Accolades:\u00a014x All-Star, 2x Gold Glove, 10x&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-289022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}