On Jan. 21, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) officially announced the Hall of Fame futures for three players.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, and Billy Wagner all received the required 75% or more of the vote and will be inducted into Cooperstown in late July. Ichiro ended up just one vote away from unanimity (seriously, that voter should come forward and accept their public shame), Sabathia finished with 86.8%, and Wagner with 82.5% in his last year of eligibility.
Fifteen other players received at least 5% of the vote to keep them on the ballot in 2026. Five of them — Bobby Abreu, Andruw Jones, Manny Ramirez, Jimmy Rollins, and Chase Utley — are former Dodgers. Curtis Granderson, Russell Martin, and Hanley Ramirez all came off next year's ballot.
Jones, in his eighth year under consideration, finished with 66.2% of the vote, and then there was a steep drop off to Utley with 39.8% and Ramirez with 34.3%. Abreu and Rollins rounded out the group with 19.5% and 18% respectively.
Time is running short for both Ramirez and Jones, who fell short of an induction on their eighth and ninth ballots this year, but their chances could improve with a weak candidate class in 2026.
Five former Dodgers remain on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot after 2025 results were revealed
Of these five players, Utley spent the most time with the Dodgers and was the only one to end his career in LA, but if he's elected it's more likely he'll go into the Hall as a member of the Phillies, where he spent the first 13 years of his major league career. Jones spent just one year with the Dodgers in 2008, the worst season of his career by far, and he's best remembered as an Atlanta Brave.
Ramirez took LA by storm after he was traded to the Dodgers from the Red Sox at the 2008 deadline, the year when he earned his 11th consecutive All-Star nod and finished fourth in MVP voting. However, things quickly soured in 2009, when he was slapped with a 50-game ban for PED use. Incidents continued to crop up after he'd left the Dodgers (and he'd already had a mark on his resume in 2003). BBWAA voters certainly don't take kindly to PED-users, but if Ramirez ends up squeaking in, it'll probably be as a Red Sox.
Of the potential newcomers on the 2026 ballot, the Dodgers' only representative is Matt Kemp. However, Ramirez and Jones are certainly names to watch closely next year as their eligibilities near their end.