Former Boston Red Sox singer David Ortiz misses Roger Clemens again as Barry Bonds joins Baseball Hall of Fame. David Ortiz was the only player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, in the process of being defiled in the steroid era, but other players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were left out.
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| Former Boston Red Sox singer David Ortiz misses Roger Clemens again as Barry Bonds joins Baseball Hall of Fame |
According to this year's poll by the American Baseball Writers' Association, "Big Sinner" is the only player to have reached the required 75% threshold. Ortiz finished the first year of qualifying, becoming the 58th player to finish with 77.9%. At 46, he will be the youngest of the 75 surviving members of the hall.
"I learned a while ago how difficult it is to take part in the first vote," Ortiz said. "Man, it's an honor to be able to ride my first radio. It's very special to me."
Bond Baseball Home Run Leader. 354-game winner Clemens; 600-Homer-Club member Sammy Sosa; Longtime pitcher Kurt Schilling is in his tenth and final year with the annual BBWAA vote.
Bond, Sosa, and Clements have posted numbers that confirmed them and marked the first-ballot Hall of Fame, but they have become embodied in the era of performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds and Clements, in particular, have long denied the use of PEDs, but the allegations have obscured them in the media and in books, and have been the subject of drama and testimony before Congress. In the end, about one-third of the electorate, at least in the author's opinion, decided that the allegations were so bad they could not be ignored and that it was enough to block access to Cooperstown's holy halls.
Asked about the allegations on Tuesday, Ortiz said: "Someone kept this list and I don't know who is positive for what. Suddenly people are pointing at me. But then I started being addicted. It was tested, but I didn't test positive. What does that tell you? "
Sosa’s support for last-minute candidates never came to the doorstep of the election, but the Bond and Clements cases were more divided among voters. Both surpassed 50% in 2017, but support has stagnated in recent seasons. Their last go-around total was 66% for bonds and 65.2% for Clements.
"David Ortiz is the most important player in the Red Sox uniform," Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy said in a statement released by the team. "He came to Boston relatively anonymously. With his attractive personality and great bat, he broke expectations and opened up the future of the franchise in the championship."
Ortiz will be inducted into the second Hall of Fame after the 2004 Red Sox. The Red Sox are famous for winning the Boston 86-year-old championship drought in the World Series that season and joining pitcher Pedro Martinez. He has also strengthened his position in the pantheon of Boston sports stars such as Ted Williams, Bobby Orr, and Bill Russell.
"When I first arrived in Boston, I was looking at people saying, 'Wow, I don't think you can be part of that pack at all,'" Ortiz said. "You're talking about a true legend, a real Ozzy, but they started their careers like me. They had no idea where they would end up."
Martinez was with Ortiz at a rally in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday. There Ortiz got the news of his election. Ortiz is the fourth Dominican-born player to join Martinez, Juan Marichal, and Vladimir Guerrero.
"Today I can imagine how New England would feel if one of her children were to be inducted into the Hall of Fame," Ortiz said. "You don't have to talk about the Dominican Republic. It's a country where baseball is improving. And the people here are very excited. Now everything is crazy."
Clark will enter the Ortiz Hall during the July 24 entrance ceremony at the Sports Center in Coopertown. He was joined last month by six players selected by the Commission of the Two Eras: Brooklyn Dodgers' Great Gil Hodges, The Twins Slugger Tony Oliva, and longtime White Sox star Mini Minoso. , Pitcher Jim Cut, Black Baseball Pioneer, Bud Fowler. And Negro League legend and ambassador Buck O'Neill. All except Ortiz, Kat, and Olivio will take responsibility after death.
Also, the late broadcaster Jack Granny praised Ford C for his broadcast excellence. Flick won the award, and ESPN's Tim Kurkujan won this year's BBWAA Career Excellence Award for his work as a baseball reporter.
With Ortiz standing as the sole winner of this year's BBWAA vote, the author has selected a total of one player in the last two rounds. The sudden drought comes after a fertile period for new members, whose authors selected 22 players between 2014 and 2020.
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