Braves legend Chipper Jones rips Hall of Fame voters for keeping former teammate out: 'Make sure it's right'

Hall of Fame voting results successful arguments each year, and, for the eighth twelvemonth successful a row, the assemblage is large astir Andruw Jones.

The erstwhile Atlanta Braves outfielder received his highest ballot percent Monday, but helium did not articulation Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner arsenic soon-to-be inductees.

Jones has made up a batch of ground.

He received conscionable 7.3% of the ballot successful his archetypal twelvemonth connected the ballot, but came successful astatine 66.2% this week. Players request 75% to beryllium elected.

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Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones celebrates with 3rd baseman Chipper Jones astatine Turner Field during the 2002 season. (RVR Photos/USA Today Sports)

Jones, a slugger astatine the sheet with 434 location runs, is considered 1 of the top antiaircraft outfielders of each time. He won 10 consecutive Gold Glove Awards from 1998 to 2007, winning astatine slightest 2 successful each 3 outfield positions, portion hitting .254 with an .823 OPS successful his career.

He has an argument, but 1 of his erstwhile teammates, Chipper Jones, who got a plaque successful Cooperstown successful 2018, said determination shouldn't adjacent beryllium a discussion.

Chipper Jones (10) of the Atlanta Braves is congratulated by teammate Andruw Jones (25) aft Chipper deed a solo location tally successful the archetypal inning against the Houston Astros successful Game 1 of the 2005 National League Divison Series Oct. 5, 2005, astatine Turner Field successful Atlanta.  (Brian Bahr/Getty Images)

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"I wanna inquire each HOF voters 1 question….if Andruw Jones plays for the New York Yankees for 15 yrs with 10 GGs, 400Hrs, 1300 rbis…is helium a HOFer? Lemme reply for you….first ballot!" Chipper wrote. "Time to person a speech astir HOFers chiming in. 75 surviving members tin marque definite it’s right!"

Baseball writers person agelong been the Hall of Fame voters, but with flawed concepts successful the voting system, determination person been calls to alteration the process.

The Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones, left, is congratulated by teammate Andruw Jones aft Chipper deed a two-run homer successful the eighth against the Colorado Rockies May 16, 2001 astatine Turner Field successful Atlanta. (Steve Schaefer/AFP via Getty Images)

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Chipper and Andruw were teammates from 1996 to 2012, playing successful the 1996 and 1999 World Series unneurotic but losing to the Yankees some times. They won 10 consecutive NL East titles together.

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