In 17 seasons, 12 with the Atlanta Braves, Jones became a five-time All-Star and won 10 Gold Glove awards, all while posting 434 career home runs, 1,289 RBI, and 1,933 hits through 2,196 games.
For the 2005 season, Jones led all players with 51 home runs and led the National League with 128 RBI, falling just short of baseball legend Albert Pujols for NL MVP, but won his only Silver Slugger Award after that same season.
From 1998 to 2007, Jones would hit at least 30 home runs in seven of those 10 seasons, also hitting more than 90 RBI in nine of them. Jones won his 10 straight Gold Gloves during that same span with the Braves, proving to be one of the greatest players of his era.
After 2007, Jones would go on to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers (2008), Chicago White Sox (2009), and New York Yankees (2011-2012) before finally retiring.
Carlos Beltran
Beltran retired from the MLB after spending 20 years in the big leagues. After winning the 1999 American League Rookie of the Year Award, Beltran would go on to become a nine-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glover, two-time Silver Slugger, and even a recipient of the 2019 Roberto Clemente Award for his positive contributions on and off the diamond.
He spent the first six and a half years of his career with the Kansas City Royals before they traded him to the Houston Astros during the 2004 season. Ironically, Beltran would find himself on the Astros 13 years later in his final season, capping off his career with a World Series win at age 40.
After his time with the Royals, Beltran would spend the following six and a half years with the New York Mets (2005-2011), before being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, where he spent the next two seasons (2012-2013).
After spending 2014 and 2015 with the New York Yankees, he'd play for them for half of 2016 before landing on the Texas Rangers for the remainder of the year.
In 2017, he became a World Series champion.
Beltran finished his career with 435 home runs, 1,587 RBI, 312 stolen bases, 2,725 hits, and a lifetime .279 batting average.
He joins former teammate Jeff Kent, who was elected to the Hall of Fame in December 2025 by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee, a 16-member board that elects players from 1980 to the present day who weren't originally selected by the main votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
