He is a hall of famer & was good for the game. Many kids grew up wanting to be like the rocket
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Fan’s opinion: Can Roger Clemens make it to the Hall of Fame?
By Sean O'Brien, Yahoo! Contributor Network
The Philadelphia Phillies are going to host the Boston Red Sox this week. Both teams have solid pitching staffs that could lead their squads to this year's Fall Classic.
While he wore other uniforms, Roger Clemens spent the majority of his career with the Boston Red Sox. In the mid-1990s, as he was heading into his mid-30s, "The Rocket" seemed to drop from space.
Re-energized
With three Cy Young Awards on his mantle, it appeared as though Clemens' power arm was starting to drain. Then he signed a free-agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and somehow revived his career.
Many pitchers go through dead-arm syndrome. Many others are simply up in some years and down in others. But, Clemens was not just any pitcher.
Bonds, McGwire, Sosa and Clemens
Here is one issue to be considered: Did any player, prominent or not, cheat the game if it can be proven that they used performance enhancing drugs?
There is a lot of emotion tied to that question.
Some people immediately answer it with a "yes" and then offer very legitimate reasons why using foreign substances should result in consequences. That is sound reasoning.
Getting an edge
Pitchers use foreign substances on the baseball. Hitters cork their bats. Guys steal signs.
How does the use of performance enhancing drugs go beyond those tricks?
If the substances used were not technically illegal, because baseball hadn't yet developed policies against them, then we are not talking about a matter of breaking rules.
And, yes, we know this is a complex matter that one player, one fan, one writer doesn't decide. So, no one should pretend as though they are some primary source on the matter. Opinion does not equal the final word in this ongoing issue.
The numbers
Understandable emotions and justified opinion about a player's career and surrounding behavior is always strongest in the period after retirement has occurred. In many, but not all, cases time has a way of leveling matters.
William Roger Clemens pitched 24 major league seasons for the Red Sox, Blue Jays, New York Yankees and Houston Astros. He had 354 wins, 4,672 strikeouts, won seven Cy Young Awards, one MVP and was a two-time World Series champion.
Those numbers, no matter how they were collectively produced, seem certain to inevitably result in one answer resulting from the following question.
Will Clemens' numbers, not how he created them, allow him to be elected to the Hall of Fame at some point? Yes.
