Committee to consider Bonds, Clemens for Hall
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Hall of Famers Chipper Jones, Greg Maddux, Jack Morris and Ryne Sandberg are among 16 members of the contemporary baseball era committee that will meet Sunday to consider the Cooperstown fate of an eight-man ballot that includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro.
Hall of Famers Lee Smith, Frank Thomas and Alan Trammell also are on the panel, which will meet in San Diego ahead of the winter meetings.
They will be joined by former Toronto CEO Paul Beeston, former Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs executive Theo Epstein, Anaheim Angels owner Arte Moreno, Miami Marlins general manager Kim Ng, Minnesota Twins president Dave St. Peter and Chicago White Sox executive vice president Ken Williams.
Three media members/ historians are on the committee: longtime statistical analyst Steve Hirdt of Stats Perform, La Velle E. Neal III of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. Neal and Slusser are past presidents of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Hall Chairman Jane Forbes Clark will be the committee’s non-voting chair.
The ballot also includes Albert Belle, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Dale Murphy and Curt Schilling. The committee considers candidates whose careers were primarily from 1980 on.
A candidate needs 75 percent to be elected and anyone who does will be inducted on July 23, along with anyone chosen in the BBWAA vote, announced on Jan. 24.
Bonds, Clemens and Schilling fell short in January in their 10th and final appearances on the BBWAA ballot. Bonds received 260 of 394 votes (66 percent), Clemens 257 (65.2) and Schilling 231 (58.6).
Palmeiro was dropped from the BBWAA ballot after receiving 25 votes (4.4) in his fourth appearance in 2014, falling below the 5 percent minimum needed to stay on.
Bonds denied knowingly using performanceenhancing drugs and Clemens maintains he never used PEDs.
Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days in August 2005 following a positive test under the major league drug program, just over two weeks after getting his 3,000th hit.
A seven-time NL MVP, Bonds set the career home run record with 762 and the season record with 73 in 2001.
A seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Clemens went 354-184 with a 3.12 ERA and 4,672 strikeouts, third behind Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Randy Johnson (4,875). Palmeiro had 3,020 hits and 568 homers.
Players on MLB’s ineligible list cannot be considered, a rule that excludes Pete Rose.
Clevinger agrees to deal with White Sox: The Chicago White Sox bolstered their rotation, agreeing to a one-year contract with right-hander Mike Clevinger, a person familiar with the agreement told the Associated Press.
The 31-year-old Clevinger went 7-7 with a 4.33 ERA in 23 games, including 22 starts, for San Diego this year.
He missed the 2021 season after he had Tommy John surgery.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Texas Southern falls at Kansas
Jalen Wilson hit five 3-pointers and scored 22 points, MJ Rice added 19 and No. 9 Kansas posted a 87-55 rout of Texas Southern on Monday night at Lawrence, Kansas. Grady Dick had 15 points, Josef Yesufu 14 and KJ Adams 10 for the
Jayhawks (7-1).
“I thought it was probably pretty good overall,” Kansas coach Bill Self said, “considering we were tired, and we hadn’t practiced since we played Tennessee. I thought that was about as good as we could do.”
Davon Barnes had 22 points and Zytarious Mortle scored 11 for the Tigers (1-7). TSU coach Johnny Jones was not available after the game. Arkansas holds off Troy: Ricky Council scored a season-high 27 points and No. 11 Arkansas used a 17-0 run late in the second half to hold off Troy 74-61 at Fayetteville, Ark.
Council scored 13 of Arkansas’ final 19 points as the Razorbacks (6-1) outscored Troy 19-3 in the final 6:25.
Nelson Phillips led Troy (6-2) with 22 points.
GOLF Woods pulls out of tournament
Tiger Woods withdrew Monday from his Hero World Challenge at Nassau, Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.