The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced its Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot, which includes three former Mets among its eight players. Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, and Gary Sheffield are the three players who spent time with the Mets, and they’re joined by Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, and Fernando Valenzuela.

Delgado hit 473 home runs in his major league career with a .280/.383/.546 career line, and a 135 OPS+. His 39.4 JAWS ranks 38th all time among first basemen, slightly behind Hall of Famers Frank Chance and Orlando Cepeda and slightly ahead of Hall of Famer—and inaugural Mets manager—Gil Hodges. Despite those numbers, Deglado got just 3.8 percent of the BBWAA vote in 2015, his first time appearing on a Hall of Fame ballot, and fell off it

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