Many Baseball Fans Are Very Angry Barry Bonds Didn’t Make The Hall Of Fame Again

Perhaps the most controversial player in MLB history, Barry Bonds, failed to make the National Baseball Hall of Fame again and many baseball fans aren’t happy about it.

After going the full 10 years on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot and not coming anywhere close to receiving the needed number of votes, Bonds got a second chance this year thanks to the formation of three new committees.

It didn’t matter. Barry Bonds, the Major League Baseball record holder for most home runs in a single season and in a career, again didn’t get enough votes.

Instead, Fred McGriff was the only one elected to the Hall of Fame by the newly formed 16 person Contemporary Era committee.

In addition to Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and Don Mattingly were all also snubbed.

To gain the honor, a candidate was required to get at least 12 votes (75%). McGriff got 16, Mattingly got 8, Schilling received 7 votes, Murphy, Palmeiro, Clemens and Bonds all received less than 4.

As they were back in January of 2022, a large amount of baseball fans had a meltdown on social media after seeing Bonds and Clemens denied again.

“Barry Bonds not being in the hall of fame doesn’t delegitimize him.. it deligitimizes the hall of fame,” one fan tweeted.

“I still don’t get how David Ortiz was a *first ballot* Hall of Famer but Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren’t Hall of Famers,” tweeted another fan.

“Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens not being in the Hall of Fame by now is a joke,” another baseball fan wrote.