Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Rejected By Hall Of Fame As David Ortiz Gets In Despite Peds
This is despite the lone player in the 2022 class, former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, having been accused of performance enhancing drugs (PEDS)—the same thing Bonds and Clemens have mostly been excluded for. Bonds, 57, and Clemens, 59, did not receive the required 75 percent of the vote needed from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) to enter the Hall of Fame. Per the hall’s official rules, MLB players are first eligible to be voted into the Hall of Fame five years after they retire....