On Jan. 24, Jack O’Connell, the Secretary/Treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), will announce the names of this year’s inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame. There’s a very good chance that both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will be part of the class of 2018. As of this writing, Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker Ryan Thibodaux (@NotMrTibbs) has Bonds and Clemens, each as having received approximately 67% of the required 75% vote total required for induction (based on 39% of the ballots).
At one point, it was unthinkable that the duo might be inducted, because of the performance-enhancing drug (PED) allegations lodged against them.