Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball’s all-time leader in home runs, will get Hall of Fame consideration once again this winter. So will Roger Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner and former MVP. On Monday, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced the candidates that will be considered for election by the Contemporary Era Committee next month, and the ballot will be crowded with big names that did not reach Cooperstown through the writers’ vote.
Two of those players made appearances with the Phillies during their decorated careers. Both Dale Murphy, a two-time National League MVP and longtime Atlanta Brave, and the late Fernando Valenzuela, who won the 1981 NL Rookie of the Year and MVP with the Los Angeles Dodgers, briefly played in Philadelphia.