Next season will be a very interesting Hall of Fame ballot for major league baseball in 2013 with Roger Clemons, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa all on the ballot for the first time and the question is not if they get into the Hall of Fame next year because they will not get in next year because the voters will not give these three votes. The more interesting part will be to see how close they will get to the 75% of the voters to vote for them and will they get 75% in the next 15 years before gets into the hands of the legacy committee and I believe that Barry Bonds will get in in about 2 to 5 years because the public still believes that Barry Bonds was a great player before his head got bigger. While Roger Clemons problems that has been documented happened in Toronto after having solid 10 seasons with the Red Soxs and his two seasons in Toronto and then his time in New York put him in the consideration in the Hall of Fame argument as he won 41 games in Toronto and 77 games which is 118 wins of his 354 career wins and that is 33% of his career win so it will be more interesting as it is a 50/50 situation and it may more likely be if he not in 5 years he will not get in. Then there is Sammy Sosa who it took a few seasons as it was his 10th season when he hit 66 homers after his seasons' high was 40 homers and then it 66, 63, 50, 64, 49 in a 5 season run and then the numbers dropped down hard after that and was done three seasons later and then on top of that he had that whole corked bat situation and hit over .300 in 3 of the 5 seasons so he will not make it in just like Mark.
Going to be interesting
Tom Mehegan
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