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Jeff Kent has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.
Kent, the 2000 National League MVP winner who played most of his career at second base, received 14 of the committee’s 16 possible votes to earn his spot in Cooperstown as part of the Class of 2026.
Kent was the only candidate to receive 75% of the necessary votes from the 16-person committee. The next closest was Carlos Delgado, who received nine of the 16 votes.
Meanwhile, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Gary Sheffield, all players linked to performance-enhancing drug use in their careers, each received fewer than five votes. Fernando Valenzuela also did not obtain the necessary votes.
Clemens received the endorsement of President Donald Trump before the committee vote.
“Roger Clemens, who won 354 games, went through his own witch hunt. HE WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES!!! If he doesn’t get into the Hall of Fame, he should sue Major League Baseball!” Trump wrote in Truth Social early Sunday.
“It was the Obama Justice Department (of course!) that brutally went after the great Roger Clemens. ROGER WAS COMPLETELY CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES!!!”
This is a developing story. More to come.
