David Ortiz Selected to 2022 Baseball HOF Class; Barry Bonds Falls Short

The National Baseball Hall of Fame will include David Ortiz in its class of 2022.

The Baseball Writers Association of America made their decisions on Tuesday, and the official ceremony will take place on July 24 from New York.

A player needs 75 percent of the writer ballots to get in.

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The Baseball Hall of Fame Vote Tracker had Ortiz earning 83.3 percent of the vote. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens both met that threshold.

The percentages for the pre-result ballots are always higher and steroid-associated players usually take a bigger hit.

The players who got more than half of the votes, such as Scott Rolen, were long shots to get in.

It appeared to be a question of whether or not they would make it into the Hall.

Only one person made it to the museum. He will join the HOF Class of 2022.

He made 10 All-Star Games during his career. He won three World Series with the Boston Red Sox.

The left-handed designated hitter had a four-year stretch from 2004-2007 in which he had a.302 batting average and 1.024 OPS, and he won the Silver Slugger.

The Minnesota Twins released him after the 2002 season. He was a free agent when he was signed by the Red Sox in January 2003 and went on to hit 541 home runs in his career.

Bonds and Clemens were not included in the Hall of Fame.

Bonds had a 22-year career that included seven National League Most Valuable Player awards, 14 All-Star Game appearances, 12 Silver Sluggers and eight Gold Gloves. He is the career home run leader in Major League Baseball with 762 and the single-season leader with 73. Bonds had an MLB single-season record in 2004, with a 1.422 OPS.

Bonds played for the Pittsburgh Pirates until 1992. Bonds led to three NL East titles. He won the NL Most Valuable Player in 1992 and 1990. Bonds left in free agency for the Giants, a team that both his father and Willie Mays played for. The Giants won their first league title in 13 years in 2002, thanks to Bonds.

During his 24 year MLB career, he won six American League Cy Young award, 11 All-Star Game appearances, and seven ERA titles. The two-time Triple Crown winner led the majors in strikeouts. He finished his career with 354 wins and 4,662 strikeouts.

The New York Yankees won the 1999 and 2000 World Series titles with the help of Roger. He spent a decade with the Boston Red Sox before moving on to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Yankees, and the Houston Astros before ending his career with the New York Yankees in 2007.

Bonds and Clemens are both first-ballot Hall of Famers.

Both were linked to steroid use in the Mitchell Report. The men never failed an MLB test.

Bonds told a grand jury in 2004 that he used steroids, but that his trainer told him he was taking pain-relieving balm and oil for arthritis.

Brian McNamee said that he injected his ex-client with steroids and human growth hormone. The allegations were denied by Clemens.

Steroids have been banned in baseball since 1991, but the league did not begin testing until 2003 Bonds and Clemens did not fail MLB drug tests.

The men were held out of the Hall of Fame despite their accomplishments. Baseball writers such as Tom Verducci, Dan Shaughnessy and others have left them off their ballots.

The future Hall of Fame fates will now be in the hands of the Era Committee system. For the first 10 years on the ballot, players can be voted into the Hall of Fame. For the past decade, Bonds and Clemens have not been allowed into the Hall of Fame.

The BBWAA did not vote for anyone into the Hall of Fame for the second year in a row.