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Late to the party, and I love talking about baseball - especially the 90's which was the peak of my childhood obsession.
I'm a homer 100%, but I think wholeheartedly that Griffey would be the all-time HR leader if he took PEDs. The amount of time he missed because of injuries is pretty wild for a guy who still hit 630 HR. He missed almost 900 games in his career including 260 in a 3 year stretch. So there is a weird thing to me with comparing him to Bonds.
I'm OK with Andruw Jones being the hall. Maybe even Posada just because stellar defense and catchers don't get enough credit for what they do. Bonds, Clemens, and Rose at the very least need to immortalized somehow, but in the same vein as @baylrballa I'm not sure it should be scott-free and I don't have better suggestions.
The truth is that personality and ethics matter to us and it matters to the voters because we want to celebrate our heroes, but not sure how you can pick and choose so subjectively - like Big Papi. And to JBs point, the current players are going to be treated differently than those steroid era guys, like Cano and Tatis.
dl;dr: Too much subjectivity in selection.
Pete Rose already in the Hall of Fame, just not a Hall of Famer | Sporting News
People sometimes forget that Pete Rose being banned from baseball does not mean he is whitewashed from history. The Hall of Fame still celebrates Rose's legendary career.
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Pete Rose and Barry Bonds' accomplishments are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. They are not enshrined as players. I'm ok with that.