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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 NL MVP winner who played the majority of his career at second base, received 14 of a possible 16 votes from the committee to earn his spot in Cooperstown as part of the class of 2026.
Kent was the only candidate to receive the required 75% of the votes from the 16-person committee. The second closest was Carlos Delgado, who received nine of the 16 votes.
Meanwhile, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Gary Sheffield – all players linked to using performance-enhancing drugs in their careers – each received less than five votes. Fernando Valenzuela also did not get the necessary votes.
Clemens received an endorsement from President Donald Trump ahead of the committee’s 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 the hell out of Major League Baseball!” Trump posted on Truth Social earlier Sunday.
“It was the Obama DOJ (of course!) that viciously went after the great Roger Clemens. ROGER WAS COMPLETELY CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES!!!”
This is a development story. More to come.
