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Pete Rose was removed from Major League Baseball’s permanently unjustified list on Tuesday.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote that at a player’s death they are no longer unjustified as they can no longer “represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” in a letter obtained by ESPN. Seventeen players are now eligible to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” forms Karl Ravech believed Rose’s reintroduction seems to be associated with Manfred’s recent meeting with President Donald Trump.
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Reds Hall of Famer Pete Rose is introduced before the unveiling of a bronze statue of him outside the Great American Ball Park in the center of Cincinnati on June 17, 2017. (IMagn)
Trump and Manfred met in the White House last month, but it is unclear what the two discussed. Trump has been eager in his belief that Pete Rose should be introduced into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“It seems to be closer to a meeting he had with the president, Donald Trump, who made it clear that he would free Pete Rose and get him back in a position where he would then be eligible for a committee to get him into the Hall of Fame,” Raveech said during a performance at Outkick’s “The Ricky Cobb Show.”
Trump posted to the Truth Social in February that he would post -pending Rose. MLBS Hit King earned five months in prison in 1990 and in 2017 was accused of statutory rape from a meeting decades earlier.
Raveech said he himself is uncertain about MLB’s motivation to remove Rose from the unjustified list.
“For me, I’m not sure what that motivation is. To me, permanently unjustified just that. Pete Rose -Ranging does not necessarily change the dynamics of me; he was permanently unjustified. I look at the Hall of Fame, and this is such an individual, personal conversation and your feelings about Rose and your feelings about the sport,” said Raveech.
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Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose in 1985. (IMagn)
“For me, Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame. If you go to Cooperstown, you will see the numbers, you will see the bats you want to hear about the records, you know that no one in the game’s story has more hits than Pete Rose. If you clearly talk about putting a plaque up in the hall where all the other plaques are, it is another story, and it is clear what goes on.”
However, Raveech does not believe that Rose’s removal from the permanently unjustified list means he is guaranteed to be voted into the Hall of Fame.
“Does not mean Rick that this will now Greenlight him to get him in. It is clear that the players in these selection have made it clear any stain on the game, whether it would be steroids, these guys got like four votes in the latest selection,” Ranech said.
“Games are someone else that has grown up in club houses for the past 30 years, [I] Remember to go into each of them and the top line is essentially the bid: Do not bet on baseball. He violated it, he was then put on a permanently unjustified list. “
Reds Great Pete Rose has a star bearing his name before a game against San Diego Padres at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati on June 24, 2016. (IMagn)
Rose died at the age of 83 in September 2024, but the debate over whether he should be in the Hall of Fame has raged.
Rose is MLBS Hit King with 4,256 career hits. He was the National League MVP in 1974 and was a 17-time all-Star, a three-time world champion and a three-time batting master.
However, the Cincinnati Reds star became a polarizing figure as news about his games at play shook the sports world. Rose received a lifetime ban from MLB in 1989, but after Tuesday’s announcement, it will be eligible to be voted on for the first time.
