Overview

• On Sunday, the president again urged Clemens’ immediate induction on social media and suggested the pitcher should sue Major League Baseball.
• Journalists emphasized that MLB and the commissioner cannot add members to Cooperstown, as Clemens’ path now runs only through the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee requiring 12 of 16 votes.
• Clemens peaked at 65.2% in his final BBWAA ballot year in 2022 and received fewer than four votes the last time the veterans-era panel considered him.
• Clemens thanked the president for his support and reiterated that he never used performance-enhancing drugs, despite being named in the 2007 Mitchell Report and later being acquitted of charges related to his congressional testimony.
• MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has said the president was among voices in the 2025 decision to remove Pete Rose from the ineligible list, a comparison Trump invokes even though Hall voting remains independent of MLB.