Will These 6 Steroid Era Baseball Stars Get Into The Hall of Fame?
January 16, 2009 Posted in Entertainment
Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were recently elected into the baseball Hall of Fame. But for the third year in a row Mark McGwire failed to gain entry into Cooperstown.
The Hall has a way of snubbing some of it’s greatest players, just look at Bert Blyleven who sits at #5 on the career strikeout list for pitchers with 3,701, but has yet to get elected after 11 years of eligibility.
Most would argue that McGwire and his 583 home runs make him worthy of induction, but it seems that the looming steroid cloud will keep him out.
McGwire is the first in a long list of steroid era players that are, or will soon be, eligible for induction. So who do you think deserves to get in?
Take a look at the list, analyze the stats, make a moral decisions and vote.
Barry Bonds
Year Eligible: 2012
Career Stats: Batting average: .298; Home runs: 762; RBI: 1,996; Hits: 2,935; Stolen bases: 514; On-base percentage: .444
Career Highlights and Awards: 7X League MVP, 11X Silver Slugger, 15X All-Star, Home Run King, Most Home Runs in a single season, and lone member of 500-500 club.
Rafael Palmeiro
Year Eligible: 2010
Career Stats: Batting average: .288; Home runs: 569; RBI: 1,835; Hits: 3,020;
Career Highlights and Awards: 4X All-Star, 2X Silver Slugger, 4th member of 500 Home Run – 3,000 Hit club
Roger Clemens
Year Eligible: 2012
Career Stats: Win-Loss record: 354-184; ERA: 3.12; Strikeouts: 4,672
Career Highlights and Awards: 11x All-Star, 7x Cy Young Award winner, 1986 AL MVP, 2X 20 Strike-out Games
Gary Sheffield
Year Eligible: Still Active
Career Stats: Batting average: .292; Home runs: 499; RBI: 1,633; Hits: 2,615; Stolen bases: 1,592; On-base percentage: .444
Career Highlights and Awards: 9-time All-Star, 4-time Silver Slugger Award.
Mark McGwire
Year Eligible: 2006
Career Stats: Batting average: .263; Home runs: 583; RBI: 1,414
Career Highlights and Awards: 12x All-Star, 3x Silver Slugger Award, 1987 Rookie of the Year, Highest at bats per home run ratio, single-season home run record for rookies, 70 home runs in one season,
Sammy Sosa
Year Eligible: Still active
Career Stats: Batting average: .273; Home runs: 609; RBI: 1,667
Career Highlights and Awards: 7x All-Star, 6x Silver Slugger Award, 1998 NL MVP,
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If Mr. Hustle himself, Pete Rose is banned for betting on baseball, something that I remind you in no way, shape, or form affected or enhanced his abilities while on the field, why should any of these cheating scum bags be allowed in based on statistics that are blown up due to their use of performance enhancing drugs? It would make a mockery of baseball if any one of these players were inducted before Pete Rose.
You have to let these guys in. I think they're scumbags and cheaters, but a ton of guys did steroids and we only know about a few of them. Since we can't be sure who did what, you have to just put them in based on the numbers. People will know that they cheated, but you can't erase what they did on the field. And if you start picking and choosing who gets in based on the little evidence we have, where does it end? There are plenty of guys who I'm sure did steroids (Bagwell, Pudge, etc) but were never caught. Should they get in just because some trainer didn't rat them out? Let them all in and let history sort it out.
how bout this………..
declare amnesty…………….
then, anyone found using after this is banned for life.
Mark McGwire should NOT get a standing Ovation ….What is wrong with people???????????? A S.O. is to praise someone for the GOOD JOB they do ….He certainly does not deserve that …You don't praise and reward the people for their wrong doings, They should be punished instead. Let's not make the wrong people, for our younger ones, to look up to. T