Roger Clemens received support from President Donald Trump on Sunday as he gets ready to hear whether he will get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
President Donald Trump went to bat for legendary pitcher Roger Clemens one last time as the Era Committee will reveal who else will make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Clemens is on the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot. Officials on the committee focus on players who have made primary contributions to the game since 1980. Clemens failed to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame through the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot.
The former New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox star is on the ballot with Barry Bonds, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela. Each voter on the 16-person committee can select up to three candidates, who will need 75% of the vote to get into Cooperstown.
Trump backed Clemens in posts on Truth Social.
«Roger Clemens, who won 354 games, went through his own Witch Hunt. HE WAS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES!!! If he doesn’t get into the Hall of Fame, he should sue the hell out of Major League Baseball!» Trump wrote.
«It was the Obama DOJ (of course!) that viciously went after the great Roger Clemens.
