2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class could have distinct New York flavor
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Tuesday’s Baseball Hall of Fame announcement may have an especially New York feel to it.

CC Sabathia, Carlos Beltran, and Billy Wagner are all making strides towards being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. According to ballot-tracker Ryan Thibodaux (@NotMrTibbs on Bluesky), these former players from the Yankees and Mets are on track for induction.

Ichiro Suzuki, who also played for the Yankees, is likely to secure a spot in the Hall of Fame and potentially could become only the second player to be unanimously voted in, following in the footsteps of Mariano Rivera.

The results will be announced by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Tuesday.

If Sabathia and Beltran achieve induction, it would mark a significant moment as they could be the first players prominently associated with both the Yankees and Mets to be enshrined in the same year.

The players and the Hall jointly decide which team’s logo is depicted on an inductee’s plaque.

Sabathia, who was named on 93.6 percent of ballots made public as of Monday afternoon, has said since at least 2019 that he intends to go into the Hall with a Yankees cap.

And most signs point to Beltran going in as a Met if he’s elected. Beltran was at 80.3 percent as of Monday.

Players must be named on 75 percent of ballots for induction, though the final vote often dips from the tally of public votes. It would be a leap for Beltran, in his third year on the ballot, after he finished at 57.1 percent a year ago.

As The Post’s Mike Vaccaro recently noted, despite Beltran’s rocky history in Queens — which includes Beltran being fired as manager before even getting to spring training because of revelations of his role in the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal — the outfielder’s best seasons came with the Mets from 2005 until midway through 2011, when he was traded to the San Francisco Giants.

Beltran appeared in nearly the same number of games with the Mets (839) and Royals (795), but put up better number in Queens (129 OPS-plus with the Mets; 111 with the Royals).

The same is true of Sabathia, who came up with Cleveland — where he won the lone Cy Young Award of his career — but had the majority of his success with the Yankees.

Sabathia netted 134 of his 251 career wins in his 11 seasons with the Yankees and led them to their most recent World Series title in 2009.

Wagner spent four of his 16 MLB years with the Mets, as opposed to nine as an Astro. Wagner is in his 10th and final year on the writers’ ballot, and was at 84.6 percent on Monday after falling just short a year ago with 73.8 percent.

“There is a lot riding on this,” Wagner told The Post’s Mike Puma. “For me, it’s a staple for small-town kids who have gotten the opportunity and taken advantage of it, to look at it and say it’s possible.”

Other notable names on the ballot with local ties include Andy Pettitte (at 33 percent on the ballot in his seventh year of eligibility after finishing at 13.5 percent a year ago), Alex Rodriguez (at 41 percent in his fourth year after 34.8 last year), David Wright (at 11.2 percent in his second year after 6.2 percent last year), and Francisco Rodriguez (at 8 percent on Monday.)

Andruw Jones, who played the final two years of his career with the Yankees, was at 72.3 percent as of Monday after finishing at 61.6 percent last year.

Manny Ramirez was at 36.7 percent. Next year will be his 10th and final year on the ballot.

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