Why Baseball Hall of Fame chair was 'not surprised' Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds struck out again

Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are apt down to their last at-bat erstwhile it comes to getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The 2 missed retired connected their latest effort of getting a spot successful Cooperstown done the Contemporary Era Committee connected Sunday. The 16-member sheet voted for erstwhile San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros prima Jeff Kent to get his spot successful the hallowed halls.

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Second baseman Jeff Kent #21 of the San Francisco Giants walks connected the infield during the MLB crippled against the Los Angeles Dodgers connected Sept. 19, 2002 astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles, California. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Baseball Hall of Fame Chair Jane Forbes Clark said Monday she believed Clemens and Bonds were turned down again due to the fact that the committee members measure those who thrived successful the Steroid Era successful the aforesaid mode arsenic shot writers.

"I'm not amazed due to the fact that I deliberation there’s overlap and evidently discussions among the writers, and we person writers represented connected that committee," Clark said.

Bonds has denied knowingly utilizing performance-enhancing drugs during his career. Clemens maintains he’s ne'er utilized PEDs either. President Donald Trump besides gave Clemens his backing earlier the committee voted.

ROGER CLEMENS, BARRY BONDS MISS OUT ON LATEST CHANCE TO ENTER BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

In this July 19, 2007, record photo, San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds hits a three-run location tally during the seventh inning of a shot crippled against the Chicago Cubs successful Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

The Baseball Hall of Fame announced past March that candidates who received less than 5 votes from the 16-person sheet are not eligible for that committee’s ballot during the adjacent three-year cycle. A campaigner who is dropped aboriginal reappears connected a ballot and again receives less than 5 votes would beryllium barred from aboriginal ballot appearances.

If Clemens and Bonds reappear connected the committee’s ballot successful 2031 and neglect to get 5 votes, they would beryllium barred from aboriginal appearances unless the rules are changed again.

New York Yankees pitcher (22) Roger Clemens delivers against the Baltimore Orioles astatine Camden Yards. (Geoff Burke/USA TODAY Sports )

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"What’s beauteous astir it is it’s going to unfastened up spots connected the ballot truthful that much radical tin beryllium reviewed," Clark said. "They surely tin travel backmost successful six years, successful ‘31, but betwixt present and past immoderate different radical volition person a accidental due to the fact that I deliberation that’s truly important."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.