Buster Posey takes center stage among the newcomers for next year’s Hall of Fame ballot

These days, Buster Posey’s focus is on trying to build a winner as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants. Eleven months from now, however, writers will be evaluating an earlier part of his career. Posey is expected to be the top newcomer on the 2027 Hall of Fame ballot. There are no first-ballot inductees this year after the results were announced on Tuesday night. Holdover candidates Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were the only ones voted in. Beltrán and Jones were the top returning vote-getters from 2025, so it wasn’t...