Most of Beltr\u00e1n\u2019s induction speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame was in English, but he delivered part of it in Spanish to address his parents, Wilfredo and Carmen.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when he quoted Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cLa Mudanza,\u201d one of the songs the Puerto Rican star sang during the last Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cUn aplauso pa Mami y Papi porque en verd\u00e1 rompieron.\u201d <\/p>\n (In English, \u201cOne round of applause for Mom and Dad because they truly crushed it.\u201d)<\/p>\n \u201cI love that song,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said after he was inducted into the Hall along with former Dodgers<\/a> Jeff Kent<\/a> and Andruw Jones<\/a> before an estimated crowd of 12,000. \u201cI like it because it\u2019s a tribute to our parents.<\/p>\n Carlos Beltr\u00e1n waves a Puerto Rican flag while speaking during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday.<\/p>\n (Seth Wenig \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s cool what [Bad Bunny] does with his music. There\u2019s no doubt that he looks for a way to promote Puerto Rico, recognize the family, recognize relationships. I think it was an important moment to mention them and for the fans that follow his music react to those words.\u201d<\/p>\n Beltr\u00e1n was born in Manati, Puerto Rico, where his father, Wilfredo Beltr\u00e1n worked at a pharmaceutical company. Carlos Beltr\u00e1n credits his father with instilling his work ethic by winning \u201cperfect attendance\u201d certificates every year for 35 years at his company. Carmen Beltr\u00e1n was a homemaker, and Carlos credits her with raising him.<\/p>\n Long before Bad Bunny became one of the most popular artists in the world, Beltr\u00e1n devoted his work off the field to helping Puerto Rican youths and promoting his island.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel proud of what he does,\u201d Beltr\u00e1n said of Bad Bunny. \u201cI think he represents our island. He\u2019s part of our culture, and at the same time he\u2019s doing a pretty good job promoting the island. As a baseball player myself, I try to do the best that I could also to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 Carlos Beltr\u00e1n and Bad Bunny haven\u2019t met yet, but the Hall of Fame slugger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[132176,29160,26457,165492,95170,165490,165491,24771,165488,33228,161624,48,52,51,47,50,49,1459,165489,6187,72],"class_list":["post-413380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-andruw-jones","tag-bad-bunny","tag-baseball-player","tag-beloved-puerto-rico","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-curacao","tag-fame-induction","tag-hall","tag-induction-speech","tag-island","tag-kent","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-part","tag-thank-parent","tag-truck","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Carlos](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785117139_572_.jpeg\")
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