Roger Clemens attempting comeback
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Roger Clemens is attempting a pitching comeback, and the Houston Astros might be interested in him.
Clemens worked out for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the South Atlantic League on Monday, and the Astros’ scouting director was in attendance, according to FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal.
The 50-year-old reportedly hit 87mph on his fastball and showed good command with his breaking stuff. That was enough to convince the Skeeters to sign the seven-time Cy Young Award winner.
“Roger came to work out for us today, and we were very impressed,” said Tal Smith, who is a special advisor for the Sugar Land Skeeters and former president of the Astros.
“He had great command of all his pitches and we couldn’t be more excited about this signing,” Smith said in a press release.
The Astros bullpen catcher caught Clemens and said his splitter was still nasty. Clemens is scheduled to make his first start with the Skeeters on Saturday.
Rosenthal raises the possibility that the Astros could consider signing Clemens to pitch when rosters expand next month because he would be a box office draw. I frankly don’t think it would be a bad idea. I know if Clemens made it back to the big leagues I sure as heck would want to see how he could do at his age.
Another thing to consider is that Clemens may want to pitch again in the majors because it would postpone his appearance on the Hall of Fame ballot. Players are eligible for Hall of Fame voting five years after playing their last big-league game. Clemens will be on the ballot in 2013 and would likely not be seen favorably because of his ties to PED-usage. This might be a way to postpone the embarrassment that would come with receiving a low percentage of votes
bruh......
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Ahh man, just hang it up.
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How desperate of the Astros
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infamous114 wrote: »How desperate of the Astros
The real question is How desperate is Roger to not get ? on by HOF voters.
? trying to delay his HOF voting by 5 more years, to get people to change their minds.
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lmao at this
? ole man Clemens
The Yankees dont even ? with that ? anymore
He dont get invited to Old Timers day
His name is never spoken about on the YES Network
They even canceled his Yankeeography forever
roid out hillbilly better gon sit his no testicles down. -
I bet they dont steroid test in that wack ass league, he prolly gets paid in hot wings and muscle milk
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Don't sleep on The skeeters
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This is just a horrible pr move from the Astros just to get people in the seats!!!
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i can't stand the guy, but i do think it would be kind of like a big "? You" to mlb and the federal government and their whole steroids witch hunt if he did pitch in the majors again. but he better hope that splitter is nasty if he's only topping out at 87mph. I'd assume he would have to be a reliever. i doubt he'd be able to hold up for more than a couple innings.
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He's only doing this in hopes of the Astros signing him cuz soon as he throws one pitch in the MLB again it pushes those 5 years back again before he' can be voted on in the Hall , it's a cheesy ass move on both Roger and Houston
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Kushington wrote: »I bet they dont steroid test in that wack ass league, he prolly gets paid in hot wings and muscle milk
yes they do , Atlantic League is the best indy league .. and this is also the league Jose Canseco got caught in -
Taking a page from best friend Andy P. Get caught, comeback and show you didn't need it.
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astros need all the help they can get especially since they coming to the AL next year but cmon now
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Did they take away some of his strikeouts like that Bernie Mac movie?
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? is 50 just bow out bruh
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Don't sleep on The skeeters
N/H at Cowherd on SportsNation saying "Wow, that was a mouthful" when he announced that Clemens was going to play for the Skeeters....lol
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This is just a horrible pr move from the Astros just to get people in the seats!!!
If it gets people in the seats then it's actually a great PR move.
And he's only doing this like someone said to not be on the HOF ballots with Bonds McGuire, Palmeiro etc..