Dominican Pedro Martínez, immortal of Major League Baseball, indicated this Sunday that the entry into the Hall of Fame of his compatriots Sammy Sosa and Alex Rodríguez will depend largely on how the cases of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are treated.
“I think everything will depend on how Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens do, which, for me, who faced them both, were two players who already had numbers for the Hall of Fame, before incurring things negatives that they incurred, ”said the former pitcher this Sunday in statements to the press in Santo Domingo.
Background
Sosa and Rodríguez, who developed historic careers in Major League Baseball, like Bonds and Clemens, have been identified as alleged users of performance-enhancing substances, which has reduced their chances of being chosen to enter the temple. of the MLB immortals.
In this year’s voting, Bonds obtained 66% of the votes and Clemens obtained 65.2%, leaving both off the ballot, along with Sosa, who only 18.5% members of the American Association of Baseball Writers (BBWAA) on their tenth and last chance to be elected.
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Now the case of these three former players passes into the hands of the Major League Veterans Committee, by which they could reach a place in said pavilion of this sport.
For his part, Rodríguez will continue in the next votes behind achieving the necessary 75%, to achieve immortality in MLB baseball.
EFE
