Just like the Toronto Blue Jays getting so very close to winning the World Series in 2025, one of the team's legendary figures also got agonizingly close to immortality on Sunday (Dec. 7). Carlos Delgado was just three votes shy of earning his way into the Hall of Fame.
The long-time Blue Jays' first baseman received 56.3% of the votes to fall just three votes shy of getting a plaque in Cooperstown, but he did better than a former New York Yankees star. Just as the Blue Jays embarrassed the Bronx Bombers in the 2025 ALDS, the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee also had an embarrassing night of voting, at the expense of Yankees icon Don Mattingly.