Let's Change the MLB Hall of Fame System

The Hall of Fame is a prestigious place to be for a player when his career is over. Well the MLB has found ways in recent years to make it watered down and have some great players left out of Cooperstown. For the last 75 years the MLB has been doing its way of voting to see who will make the class and those days seem to be behind us. Today we have a new era in baseball and that’s the steroid era.

With the 2013 MLB Hall of Fame class announced last month, we just had a feeling this class would a be memorable one and I don’t mean in a good way. Some names that we’ve grown to love in our lives are Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire. They were all in this year’s class and all have been rejected by a large margin of votes by the writers.

I’m not surprised at all because they all have been in connection for using steroids or other performance enhancement drugs. The way it looks these players will never get into the Hall because of the old system in place. I’m not saying what these players were accused of wasn’t wrong but I just don’t feel drugs made them great stars. If they didn’t use steroids I believe they would of still been great but maybe not home run record breakers.

A lot of people I talk to are saying they should never be in the Hall of Fame because they cheated and aren’t as great as the numbers show; and I say seriously! Think about it; let’s use a player in Derek Jeter which is a great player. Do you really think if he took steroids or any other drugs that he’s going to hit 40 plus home runs? I highly doubt it. The drug does give you a lift, but I think talent can outweigh the roids.

The MLB should have the right voters in place such as former players, announcers, analyst and writers to place their vote on who should go into the Hall. Some of these current writers are just bias and don’t know the game as we think. The standards should even go up as well. As it is now if you have 500 HR or 300 wins you’re in. Let’s change this because more players are hitting this milestone and many can’t get in. Not a fan of cheating and steroid use but the last two decades have been flooded with this. So let’s put these guys in the Hall in the next few years and put some kind of disclaimer on their plagues.