Palladino: Bonds, Clemens Belong In Cooperstown With An Asterisk

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They might be recognized eventually, probably by some veterans committee.

But for now, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens remain outsiders as far as baseball’s Hall of Fame voters are concerned. And that will remain an injustice until an alternative committee rectifies the issue years down the road.

No one here is advocating that any in the 2018 class of Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman should be denied their rightful spots in favor of two PED cheats like Bonds and Clemens.