The president posted on Truth Social on Sunday, saying the former Spring Woods, Texas, and Major League Baseball pitcher belonged in the Hall.
HOUSTON — President Donald Trump is demanding that Roger Clemens, who helped lead the Houston Astros to their first World Series appearance in 2005, be put into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he played golf with Clemens and his son, Kacy, on Saturday and then proceeded to call Clemens “easily one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”
Clemens graduated from Spring Woods High School in the Spring Branch area and later went on to play baseball at San Jacinto College and then at the University of Texas at Austin.
Clemens played in the MLB from 1984 to 2007, starting with the Red Sox before joining the Yankees, Blue Jays, and Astros (2004–2006).
In 2007, the 7-time Cy Young Award winner appeared in the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball. Though he has always denied taking performance-enhancing drugs, the allegations clouded his legacy in the eyes of Hall of Fame voters.
“People think he took drugs, but nothing was proven. He never tested positive, and Roger, from the very beginning, totally denies it. He was just as great before those erroneous charges were leveled at him. That rumor has gone on for years, and there has been no evidence whatsoever that he was a “druggie,” Trump said.
In his post, Trump also referenced Pete Rose, who, in May, was reinstated by Commissioner Rob Manfred and made eligible for the Hall of Fame after his career was tarnished by a gambling scandal.
“This is going to be like Pete Rose where, after over 4,000 Hits, they wouldn’t put him in the Hall of Fame until I spoke to the Commissioner, and he promised to do so, but it was essentially a promise not kept because he only “opened it up” when Pete died and, even then, he said that Pete Rose only got into the mix because of DEATH,” Trump said.
Rose’s permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death.
Trump said he doesn’t want Clemens to have the same fate.
“354 Wins — Put him in NOW. He and his great family should not be forced to endure this “stupidity” any longer,” he said in the post.
In 2022, Clemens fell short of the necessary votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America.to make it into the Hall of Fame. It was his last year to be eligible. After that 2022 vote, Clemens posted to X (which was Twitter at the time), saying, “My family and I put the HOF in the rear view mirror ten years ago.”
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