Fernando Valenzuela, the Dodgers’ left-hander who sparked Fernandomania in 1981, is among the eight names that will be considered by the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for induction into next year’s class.
The 16-person committee meets every three years and considers players whose primary contributions to the game came since 1980. Any candidate who receives 75 percent of the votes on ballots cast by the committee will be elected into the hall of fame and will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 26, 2026 — along with any inductees elected from the Baseball Writers Assn.