Ex-Boston Red Sox star and future Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez thinks two players accused of using PEDs --- Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds-should be in the Hall of Fame, too.
He told ESPN.com: "With all due respect to everybody that votes, I'll have to say Roger and Barry Bonds are two guys that I think had enough numbers before anything came out to actually earn a spot in the Hall of Fame. I'm not quite sure 100 percent how close they will be before all the things came out, but in my heart, if you asked me before any of that, I would've said, 'Yes, 100 percent,' without looking back.
Martinez said the way the two greats dominated the game is reason enough for them to inducted into the Hall.
"It wasn't just the individual performances. [It was] how they dominated the time that they came up and stayed in the big leagues until those things happened. I believe they have a legit chance, and I think, with time, the voters will take into consideration what they did previously."
Martinez and Clemens were among four recent inductees into the Red Sox Hall of Fame. But he dismissed any talk regarding the Hall of Fame saying it is something that's not in his hands.
"I don't know if it's that important," Clemens said. "It's not going to change me as a person. I tell people I've got bits and pieces of us there now. We go visit those people and they're great to us, but it's not something I sit up and worry about every day."
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