Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds miss out on latest chance to enter Baseball Hall of Fame

Jeff Kent has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.

Kent, the 2000 NL MVP victor who played the bulk of his vocation astatine 2nd base, received 14 of the imaginable 16 votes from the committee to gain his spot successful Cooperstown arsenic a portion of the Class of 2026.

Kent was the lone campaigner to person the indispensable 75% of votes from the 16-person committee. The adjacent closest was Carlos Delgado, who received 9 of the 16 votes.

Meanwhile, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Gary Sheffield — each players linked to utilizing performance-enhancing drugs successful their careers — each received little than 5 votes. Fernando Valenzuela besides did not person the votes necessary.

Clemens received enactment from President Donald Trump up of the committee's vote.

"Roger Clemens, who won 354 games, went done his ain Witch Hunt. HE WAS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES!!! If helium doesn’t get into the Hall of Fame, helium should writer the hellhole retired of Major League Baseball!" Trump wrote connected Truth Social earlier Sunday.

"It was the Obama DOJ (of course!) that viciously went aft the large Roger Clemens. ROGER WAS FULLY ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES!!!"

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