Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens get their 12th crack at the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday when the Hall’s Era Committee considers them and six other candidates on a ballot of Contemporary Era players. Based on past voting patterns, Bonds and Clemens are not the most promising candidates on the ballot.
Bonds and Clemens appeared on a 2023 Era Committee ballot and whiffed there, getting fewer than four of the 16 available votes. Four players with known connections to PEDs have appeared on a committee ballot: Bonds, Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro and Mark McGwire. All four received less than five votes. Palmeiro and McGwire were not returned to this ballot.
