Voting results for the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee’s ballot were announced on Sunday evening, as Jeff Kent was the lone player selected, receiving 14 of 16 votes (87.5%) cast by the committee. This year’s ballot consisted of players whose primary contributions to the game came since 1980, and candidates needed to receive 75% of the votes cast by the 16-member committee to become part of the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Class.
That 16-member committee included several ties to the Brewers.
The committee had seven Hall of Famers, including former Brewer Robin Yount, Fergie Jenkins, Jim Kaat, Juan Marichal, Tony Pérez, Ozzie Smith, and Alan Trammell; MLB executives including Brewer owner Mark Attanasio, former Brewer general manager Doug Melvin, Arte Moreno (Angels owner), Kim Ng (former Marlins GM, now Commissioner of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL)), Tony Reagins (former Angels GM, now Chief Baseball Development Officer), and Terry Ryan (Janesville-born, UW-Madison graduate, former Twins GM, now retired); and media members/historians Steve Hirdt, Tyler Kepner, and Jayson Stark.
For a full breakdown of the eight players on the ballot — Kent, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, former Brewer Gary Sheffield, and Fernando Valenzuela — check out this article from Paul, where he did a deep dive last week.
Delgado finished with nine votes, three shy of the mark needed for induction, while Murphy and Mattingly each received six votes. Bonds, Clemens, Sheffield, and Valenzuela each received fewer than five votes, making them ineligible to appear on any ballot until at least 2031.
Kent, 57, was a 20th-round pick out of California by the Blue Jays in 1989. He
