Former Longhorn Roger Clemens deserves to be a Hall-of-Famer?

A controversial topic involves a former Texas Longhorns baseball star P Roger Clemens and whether he deserves to get into the Hall-of-Fame.

The Baseball Hall-of-Fame ballot brought about a lot of interesting debates for the 2020 induction class. As statheads continue to control the voting more and more each passing year for the Baseball Hall-of-Fame ballots, the focus of what should qualify to be inducted shifts further and further. But the case for induction to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame surrounding a former superstar pitcher of the Texas Longhorns baseball program Roger Clemens blurs the lines.

Clemens played in the MLB with four different teams over the course of a whopping 24-year career. Most of his MLB career was spent playing for teams in the AL East, namely 13 years with the Boston Red Sox. He also spent six years with the New York Yankees, two with the Toronto Blue Jays, and three with the Houston Astros.

All the numbers from a raw perspective more than qualify Clemens as a very worthy Baseball Hall-of-Fame inductee. The Black Ink and Gray Ink tests both far surpass him above the usual Hall-of-Fame member.

Clemens ranks eighth all-time in MLB history in wins above replacement for his career (139.2) and he finished first in that stat category in four different seasons. He’s also an 11-time All-Star selection, seven-time Cy Young winner, two-time Triple Crown winner, two-time World Series Champion, one-time MVP, and one-time World Series MVP.

Not a single one of the Hall-of-Fame standards on Clemens’ Baseball-Reference page have him anywhere close to the average inductee. He’s one of the most productive and efficient MLB pitchers in the history of the sport.

But while players like former Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bobby Abreu and St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen saw their voting numbers skyrocket this year for the Hall-of-Fame ballot, Clemens didn’t gain much ground. Clemens barely saw his voting numbers increase this year.

And he along with the former San Francisco Giants record-breaking outfielder Barry Bonds aren’t making much progress in the public eye.

Clemens and Bonds only have two more years of voting before they fall off the ballot entirely. This round of anti-PED voters might not be gone quick enough to get those two into the Hall-of-Fame before they fall off the ballots.

However, the two former MLB superstars that were voted into the Baseball Hall-of-Fame as part of the 2020 induction class included the former Yankees groundbreaking shortstop Derek Jeter and Colorado Rockies first baseman Larry Walker. Jeter seemed like the shoe-in for the Hall-of-Fame voting this year, but Walker was more surprising.

At the outset of the voting for this year’s Hall-of-Fame class, it seemed like Clemens and Bonds had just as good of a chance to get inducted as Walker.

I’ll open up the floor for you all now, does the former Longhorns all-time great starting pitcher Clemens deserve to make it into the Baseball Hall-of-Fame before he falls off the ballot in two years?

This is surely an interesting question that will remain heavy on the minds of Longhorns and general baseball fans alike for the next two years.