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It is the personification of death by paper cut. The plaques are the Hall's heart.And that heart can be flawed without denigrating the museum. Roger Clemens, who won the first three of his record-setting seven Cy Young Awards for Boston, received 242 votes on Tuesday and appeared on 61 percent of the ballots. That will be interesting.
The slow, excruciating bleeding out of Barry Bonds' and Roger Clemens' candidacies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame continued Tuesday. That's what makes this so difficult -- I can't include either of them on a list in which integrity, sportsmanship and character are part of the process. "I understand all of their perspectives because I've considered them myself. Clemens creeps closer to Hall of Fame threshold To others, it's intransigence.Whatever one's perspective, it is almost assuredly a sign of failing candidacies. And for three more years, arguably the greatest hitter ever to play baseball and the most decorated pitcher in the game's history will fall short of the 75 percent threshold for induction.Saying that with such certitude goes beyond the 2019 vote in which their stalling out carried on in earnest. Two, actually, are honored by the Hall of Fame for their baseball writing, and perhaps it's best to start with one of them.Because Dan Shaughnessy, a longtime columnist at The Boston Globe and provocateur nonpareil -- behold the glory of his Mariano Rivera-only Hall ballot this year -- did a splendid job of encapsulating the moral conundrum Bonds and Clemens present.
"In my view," he wrote in an email, "they used and therefore cheated.
The slow, excruciating bleeding out of Barry Bonds' and Roger Clemens' candidacies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame continued Tuesday.
Stephen A. Smith cites “sheer stupidity” as the reason why Roger Clemens should never get inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "I was close witness to Clemens' two best seasons in Toronto, two Cy Young seasons, and am well aware of his extraordinary talents. If you lead the Masters by 10 strokes and cheat on the 18th hole of the final day, you are DQ'd. Nearly all of the 18 writers who responded to my questions presented some variation of what Shaughnessy said.
In ’86, when Clemens won the Cy Young and MVP Awards, his Boston Red Sox came one strike away from winning the World Series, only to fall to the Mets in seven games.PED use has also kept another Red Sox star out of the Hall of Fame to this point in Manny Ramirez.
-- did not offer any particularly realistic scenarios likely to unfold in the next three years. Baseball Hall of Fame: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens face best chance at Cooperstown on 2021 ballot
Jerry Beach Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I do think the walls of that room are empty without Bonds and Clemens. BOSTON -- Curt Schilling isn’t the only former Red Sox great who received an increase in Hall of Fame voting results. "I have stayed on the steroid wall," he wrote. We're also 15 years post-BALCO, a dozen years separated from the Mitchell report and neither Bonds nor Clemens has come clean publicly about their alleged use. To those voters, that is conviction.
Ramirez has another six years of eligibility on the ballot.A right-handed hitter with a near-perfect swing, Ramirez was a force for nearly his entire career, slashing .312/.411/.585 with 555 homers and 1,831 RBIs. When [David] Ortiz is whisked in in his first year of eligibility -- it will be the 10th year for Bonds and Clemens. Roger Clemens has plenty of character and integrity issues stemming from his steroid allegations that should keep him from being enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame. Getting tougher. While more than half of voters have revealed their ballots publicly, 193 have not, and the breakdown of public vs. private with regard to Bonds and Clemens tells quite the story. Mark Purdy, a longtime columnist at The San Jose Mercury News who covered Bonds for more than a decade, wrote in an email: "Basically, I'd like to somehow be able to get a true picture of the entire landscape during the so-called steroid era and see how Bonds and Clemens fit into that landscape. In what is now their eighth year on the ballot, two pitchers who dazzled for the Red Sox could "Where Shaughnessy differs from the vast majority of the respondents was in his willingness to consider voting for Bonds and Clemens going forward.
I understand all those who vote for Bonds and Clemens.
That is a slight improvement from the 22.8 percent Ramirez got last year.
Clemens is eligible to be on the ballot for two more years.As for Clemens -- who earned the nickname “Rocket” early in his career with the Red Sox -- he would be the epitome of a no-brainer if statistics were the only thing being evaluated.However, the 354-game winner carries baggage when it comes to his Hall of Fame candidacy.