The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee revealed its Hall of Fame vote, and, among the eight candidates on this year’s ballot, just one received the requisite votes to head to Cooperstown: long-time second baseman Jeff Kent.
Kent, a career .290/.356/.500/123 wRC+ hitter who played strong defense and was worth 56.0 WAR, was for years one of those “Hall of Very Good” guys who seemed just shy of the truly elite. He played for long enough to accumulate a healthy resume of counting stats, but on a year-to-year basis, I don’t know that he was ever considered a star (he had just two seasons in his career above 5.0 WAR). Close enough call, though, that I won’t say the committee got it wrong. Kent will be inducted next summer along with whichever player(s) are voted in by the writers (announcement comes in January).
Congratulations to Kent on the sport’s highest honor. He was just a consistently very, very good player for a very, very long time. Hard not to appreciate that.
Welcome to Cooperstown, Jeff Kent! t.co/zsVeL7hhV8 pic.twitter.com/I5O5J3eNMt
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) December 8, 2025There’s a little something odd about Kent having played alongside the greatest player of that era, who was by far the bigger and more impactful star at the time, but it’s Kent who’ll be enshrined and Barry Bonds will not be. Not that I expected Bonds to get the votes, given the way his traditional voting went and the nature of this committee, but still. It’s just weird that lots of folks look at those two, who played together, and say “That guy, who is half the player of the other guy? He’s a Hall of Famer.”
Speaking of Bonds, he is joined by the guy who is probably the best pitcher of that era, Roger Clemens, as probably never getting into the Hall of Fame. I’m not surprised, and, although I generally disagree with the way Steroid Era players have been treated given the way usage was almost tacitly endorsed by the league at the time, I don’t even get all that mad at voters who want them excluded. I understand the reasoning. It’s just weird to know that these super-super-super-stars will never be considered as among the game’s very best, which they obviously were.
The is extremely relevant. It means the all-time home-run leader and a seven-time Cy Young winner won’t be evaluated for Cooperstown until 2031 at the earliest — and then, perhaps, never again. t.co/PduwI55c97
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