Steroids, the dirtiest word in baseball, leaves behind a stigma that has kept players with tainted pasts from being enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Voters may be changing their tune on how they view candidates tied to performance enhancing drugs, but one former Boston Red Sox star hasn’t received the same benefit.
Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are practically the poster children for the steroid era, yet each has received a significant boost in support this year based on the early returns tracked by Ryan Thibodaux. Both of these controversial former stars currently sit at 71.