2026 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
| National Baseball | |
|---|---|
| Hall of Fame and Museum | |
| New inductees | 3 |
| via BBWAA | 2 |
| via Contemporary Baseball Era Committee | 1 |
| Total inductees | 354 |
| Induction date | July 26, 2026 (scheduled) |
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2026 were conducted according to the rules most recently amended in 2022. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players. The results were announced on January 20.
Two candidates were inducted by the BBWAA: Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones. Beltrán was inducted in his fourth year of eligibility, and Jones was in his ninth year of eligibility. Jones received 7.3% of the vote in his first year on the ballot in 2018, the lowest first-year percentage ever for a candidate eventually voted in by the BBWAA.
A meeting of the Contemporary Baseball Era committee—one of a group of three rotating bodies generally referred to as the Veterans Committee and whose structure was amended in April 2022—was held in December 2025 to consider players from the era after 1980 who no longer appear on the BBWAA ballot. Jeff Kent was elected from the Veterans Committee ballot.
The new inductees are scheduled to be honored in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, on July 26, 2026.