Cheaters like A-Roid, Bonds, and Rose should not be admitted to the HOF during their lifetimes.
The big elbow pad has also inflated home run stats. Bonds and McGwire crowded the plate with their elbow pad hanging over the plate. Pitchers cannot pitch inside as the hitter will just take the pitch off the elbow pad and walk to first. Pitches on the outside corner are then right in the hitter’s sweet spot.
MLB needs to ban the elbow pad and not allow the automatic walk on a HBP when the hitter leans into the pitch. Hitters are supposed to make an effort to get out of the way. Can you imagine how many home runs Babe Ruth would have hit if he could have used these tactics? In Ruth’s day, the next pitch would have been a high inside fastball aimed the hitters head.
Two different players playing against the Red Sox this week were not allowed to take a base after getting hit. The umpire said they made no attempt to get out of the way. The commentator noted the first time that this is something that happens a cross the league about every 3 or 4 years.
Barry was the last. That elbow pad was made illegal during his time (though they grandfathered him and Mo Vaughn and a few other players)
I don’t put Rose in with the juice heads! He cheated by betting the others cheated with the juice, Bonds might no have been caught. I remember all those lifters that shrunk up after they quit the sport it is easy to tell when you gain 35 pounds your feet grow and all after he turned 38 or 39, it was all about money and trying to beat the real players of old!!