Two former Yankees have been elected to the Nationwide Baseball Corridor of Fame on Tuesday evening. One other noticed his share of the vote drastically enhance.
Whereas Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones, former pinstripers higher recognized for enjoying elsewhere of their careers, earned the decision from The Corridor, longtime Yankee Andy Pettitte acquired 48.5% of the vote on the Baseball Writers’ Affiliation of America poll.
BBWAA candidates require 75% of the vote for induction and get to seem on the poll 10 occasions as long as they obtain no less than 5% of the vote.
Pettitte, on his eighth BBWAA poll, acquired the fourth-highest vote share of any 2026 candidate, trailing solely Beltrán (84.2%), Jones (78.4%) and Chase Utley (59.1%). Pettitte, now a particular assistant to the Yankees, nonetheless has some floor to realize with solely two years of eligibility left, however he’s in a a lot better place after receiving simply 27.9% of the vote final yr and 14.4% in 2024.
“[Being inducted] would be a wonderful blessing and honor,” Pettitte stated of the Corridor of Fame final summer season at Previous-Timers’ Day within the Bronx. “I mean, really, what can you say? What an unbelievable honor. I really don’t know what else to say about it. It would be amazing, and I would feel very blessed and fortunate. Would never, ever dream [of it].”
Pettitte, boosted by CC Sabathia’s first-ballot Corridor of Fame enshrinement and comparable numbers, went 256-153 with a 3.85 ERA and a couple of,448 strikeouts over 3,316 innings and 18 seasons, 15 of which have been spent in New York. He received 5 World Collection with the Yankees, and his 19 playoff victories are essentially the most in MLB historical past.
Whereas Pettitte admitted to utilizing human progress hormone in 2002 and 2004 in an effort to expedite his restoration from accidents, the substance was not banned or examined for on the time.
Others on the Corridor of Fame poll, resembling Manny Ramirez and ex-Yankee Alex Rodriguez, served suspensions for performance-enhancing medication after MLB started testing for such substances.
Rodriguez noticed a slight uptick in his vote share this yr, going from 37.1% to 40% on his fifth BBWAA poll.
Different Yankees to seem on the poll included Bobby Abreu (30.8%, seventh strive) and Edwin Encarnación (1.4%, 1st strive).
Beltrán and Jones, in the meantime, will probably be joined on induction day by former second baseman Jeff Kent, who was elected to the Corridor of Fame final month by the Modern Baseball Period Committee.
