Braves legend Andruw Jones gets major update in Hall of Fame voting

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Atlanta Braves fans have epic memories of Andruw Jones.

Playoff heroics. Insane catches. A prodigious peak.

Braves fans, with those memories in mind, certainly view Jones as a Hall of Famer.

But what about the rest of the baseball world? Well, it appears to be coming around.

"Now in his ninth year on the BBWAA ballot, Andruw Jones's vote percentage has just about doubled -- from 33.9% to 66.2% -- over the past five cycles," MLB.com's Brian Murphy wrote. He's sitting at 82.9% in the tracker, but that isn't quite as safe as it seems. A player's vote percentage in the tracker is often less than the actual final tally. For instance, (Carlos) Beltrán's final percentage in the tracker last year was 73.6%. He ended up at 70.3%. Jones' final percentage in the 2025 tracker was 70.3%. Once every ballot was counted, he was at 66.2%."

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A player needs 75% of the votes to get in.

"If he experiences the same decline this year, Jones would still be elected to the Hall with a little room to spare, at 78.8%," Murphy writes. "He clears the 75% threshold in about three-quarters of Sardell's latest simulations."

Jones won 10 Gold Gloves.

He also ended his career with 434 home runs.

He declined more sharply late in his career than many players do, and so there are also memories of him being out of shape and struggling in the closing stages of his career.

But very few players had a peak like Jones.

"Jones ranked third in Baseball-Reference WAR (57.6) during his 10-year peak from 1998 through 2007," Murphy writes. "The two players in front of him? (Alex) Rodriguez (80.0) and (Barry) Bonds (71.0)."

Sounds like a Hall of Famer, and he may finally be getting there.

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