After failing to earn a spot in baseball’s Corridor of Fame through the standard route, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens had one other path to realize entrance to Cooperstown.
That was through the Modern Baseball Period Gamers Committee, a 16-person panel that had eight players to consider in Sunday’s balloting. Bonds, MLB’s profession dwelling run chief with 762, and Clemens, who has gained essentially the most Cy Younger Awards with seven, have been iced out of the Corridor by the Baseball Writers Affiliation of America on account of their connections to performance-enhancing medicine.
That didn’t change Sunday with a smaller and maybe friendlier group of voters that included present Corridor of Famers, executives and historians. Bonds and Clemens didn’t earn the required 12 votes from the 16 folks casting ballots. Every voter might choose as much as three candidates.
As an alternative, the committee voted in Jeff Kent, MLB’s all-time chief amongst second basemen for dwelling runs. Kent was the 2000 NL MVP with the San Francisco Giants as he put up a .334/.424/.596 slash line with 33 homers and 125 RBIs.
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