Barry’s Bond Denied Entry into Baseball Hall of Fame in Final Year on Ballot – CBS San Francisco

COOPERSTOWN, New York (CBS/AP) – David Ortiz was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first turn on the ballot, while steroid stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied entry. Cooperstown in its final year of being reviewed by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Ortiz, a clutch racer and 10-time All-Star in more than 20 major seasons with the Boston Red Sox, was on 77.9% of the votes announced Tuesday night, surpassing the 75% threshold needed. necessary for storage. He is the fourth designated main assassin to be elected to the Hall.

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Big Papi was one of baseball’s most recognizable faces of the 2000s and 2010s. His grin was endearing to fans, but the Dominican’s heavy goal line intimidated pitchers. ball, especially in the late innings. He had 23 close-in goals, including three in the 2004 post-season while Boston ended a World Series 86-year drought.

Ortiz won .286 with 541 home runs against Boston and Minnesota while making 88% of his plate appearances as the designated hitter, the most of anyone in the Hall. . He beats Edgar Martinez, who was DH with 71.7% of his table appearances. Frank Thomas and Harold Baines are the only Hall members who go to DH more than half the time.

He is also the fourth player born in the Dominican Republic, along with Juan Marichal, Pedro Martinez and Vladimir Guerrero.

Ortiz also had PED baggage, but enough voters chose to ignore a positive test given in the supposedly anonymous 2003 survey test. Ortiz has denied taking steroids, and Commissioner Rob Manfred said in 2016 “I think it would be a mistake” to remove him from the Hall of Fame based on that single test.

The three-time World Series champion remains in public view in retirement as a studio analyst for Fox Sports’ post-season coverage. He was briefly sidelined in 2019 after being ambushed and shot in the Dominican Republic. His recovery required three surgeries, and doctors removed his gallbladder along with parts of his intestines and colon. He was back in the air in the post-season four months after the shooting.

Ortiz will be enshrined in Cooperstown, New York, on July 24 with the selection of the era committee Buck O’Neil, Minnie Miñoso, Gil Hodges, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Bud Fowler.

Bonds, Clemens and Curt Schilling were all rejected in the 10th and final year of the BBWAA vote. The Bonds are career leaders in the sport, and Clemens have won a record seven Cy Young Awards, but voters have denied them the game’s highest honor because of suspicions they’re using amphetamines. performance enhancement. Bonds received 66% of the vote and Clemens 65.2%.

Following the announcement, the San Francisco Giants released a statement recognizing his accomplishments with Orange and Black.

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“Seven-time MVP, 14-time All-Star, 12-time Silver Slugger, and 8-time Golden Glove, Barry is a generational talent who has accumulated a lifetime batting average of 0.298. and Major League record 762 said the team. “His incredible talent and immediate impact when he signed with the Giants in 1993, not only sparked a baseball renaissance in San Francisco, but helped pave the way for the construction of Oracle Park (née Pacific Bell Park) in 2000.”

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– SFGiants (@SFGiants) January 25, 2022

Schilling’s support plummeted after he finished 16 votes in 2021. Many voters chose not to support the right due to the hateful remarks he made in retirement towards Muslims, transgender people, journalists and others.

Schilling has asked the Hall to remove him from this year’s vote, but he remains an option. He was named on 58.6% of the vote, down from 71.1% last year.

Bonds, Clemens and Schilling are done on the BBWAA ballot, but they will be reviewed again next year by the Game Era Today committee. A 16-person committee of Hall members, executives and veteran media members will convene next December to consider which players who played between 1988-2016 are no longer eligible for selection. BBWAA.

“We remain hopeful that he will earn his vote to the National Baseball Hall of Fame through the next phase of the voting process,” the Giants continued.

Among those who voted for the first time, Alex Rodriguez and Jimmy Rollins received the most support.

Rodriguez won three MVPs and hit 696 home players but also used PED to clear his case. He was banned from Major League Baseball for the entire 2014 season after violating the league’s drug policy.

Next year’s vote will bring up a new issue of contention when Carlos Beltrán joins the vote. The nine-time All-Star player was punished by MLB ahead of the 2020 season and fired from his position as manager of the New York Mets for his key role in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal .

Beltrán is likely to be included in the vote of John Lackey, Jered Weaver, Jacoby Ellsbury and Jayson Werth.

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