BREAKING: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling are passed over for Baseball Hall of Fame by Cooperstown committee that elects only Fred McGriff. [Photo Credit: Getty Images]
By any statistical measure, Bonds should have been enshrined a decade ago. He is the sport's all-time leader in home runs, walks and set the single-season record for homers when he hit 73 in 2001. Bonds was a seven-time MVP, a 14-time All-Star and an eight-time Gold Glove Award winner who finished his career with 762 homers, 2,935 hits and 514 stolen bases, but his connection to performance-enhancing drugs kept him from getting into the Hall in his 10 years on the writers ballot.
Bonds didn't reach the 50 percent mark until his fifth year on the ballot and topped out at 66 percent in January, which was his 10th and final time on the ballot. The committees often have been just as harsh to players with PED connections, and coming into Sunday's meeting, Bonds was not expected to be elected.
The results of this year's writers' ballot will be released in late January, with any inductees joining McGriff in the 2023 Hall of Fame class. Jeff Kent, Bonds' former teammate, is in his final year on the BBWAA ballot but is not expected to get in. The Giants might still be represented, though.
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