A 16-year veteran southpaw with 240 career wins and a 3.88 ERA sounds like a shoo-in for a trip to Cooperstown, but what if said southpaw is an admitted juicer?
Andy Pettitte, the longtime Yankee pitcher who announced his retirement from the game on Friday, is going be the "should he or shouldn't he" hurler of the 2015 Hall of Fame ballot debates.
He won the World Series five times and his teams missed the playoffs just twice in 16 years of MLB service (three in Houston, 13 in New York).
In 2006, former major league pitcher Jason Grimsley named Pettitte as a steroid user during a raid by federal agents. Then, in December of 2007, Pettitte was listed in the Mitchell report, and later verified former trainer Brian McNamee's claim that he injected Pettitte with HGH on two occasions in 2002.
Does an admitted steroid user belong in the Hall of Fame?
Does Andy Pettitte deserve to be in the Hall of Fame?survey software