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Pete Rose is finally eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but he may not be as much of a lock as people think he is.
Rose’s on-Field CV speaks for himself-he is MLB’s Hitking at all times, won three world series and was a 17-time all-star with a career .303 Batting average.
His game, however, turned his baseball life.
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Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose. (IMagn)
In 1989, in the middle of accusations, Rose had put on the game while playing and managing, he was given a lifetime ban from the game. Two years later, the Hall of Fame said that anyone on Baseball’s unjustified list would not be eligible to be voted on.
However, MLB announced earlier this month that non -eligibility ends after death, making Rose a candidate for Cooperstown. In all likelihood, praising will come in, but some will always feel a type of way – including the current All -Star Shortstop Gunnar Henderson.
“He’s obviously one of the game’s biggest men. I don’t know. I get it, but at the same time he’s one of the game’s greatest players of all time. Heads in hits. Glad to see it, but also get both sides of it,” the Baltimore Orioles said in a recent interview with Pakinomist Digital, but Henderson eventually becomes addable.
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Pete Rose adjusts his cap when he takes the microphone during a first name ceremony to reveal Roses’s bronze statue installed outside the stadium before the MLB National League game between Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers at Great American Ball Park in the center of Cincinnati on Saturday 17, 2017. (IMagn)
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“I would let him come in. I mean he’s just too big of a player not to be in it,” he obliged.
“I was a little fascinated by the idea behind it and the science behind it. So it was really cool when I had the opportunity to join the team,” he said. “I tested them kind in spring training this year. For me stability is a big thing, especially in the Infield, in the box. That was the biggest thing I had to check the list and they passed the test.”
Gunnar Henderson, No. 2 of Baltimore Orioles, hits a solo home against Oakland -Athletics at the top of the seventh round at Ringcentral Coliseum on August 20, 2023 in Oakland, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
Henderson is struggling with .301 with a .883 ops in his last 23 matches, so it’s easy to see why he’s a fan vktry -in -one. However, he will have to carry them for a long time if he has hope of catching up with Rose.
