Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are now eligible for the Hall of Fame

[pwaldo]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/...-at-death.html

Major League Baseball issued a statement on a landmark decision today. Commissioner Rob Manfred had decided that players on the permanently ineligible list will lose that status once they die. This means that players like Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are now off the permanently ineligible list, as well as 15 others.

To establish clarity for the administration of the Major League Rules, the decision in this matter shall apply to individuals in the past or future who are posthumously on the permanently ineligible list. There are 17 deceased individuals disciplined since the founding of the Commissioner’s Office impacted by today’s announcement, including Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams; Joe Gedeon; Gene Paulette; Benny Kauff; Lee Magee; Phil Douglas; Cozy Dolan; Jimmy O’Connell; William Cox; and Pete Rose.”

[mailministry]

"Commissioner Rob Manfred had decided that players on the permanently ineligible list will lose that status once they die."

That sounds so open ended. No matter the conduct of the person,
after they die they can then be honored in the Hall of Fame.

[jverlander35]

"Commissioner Rob Manfred had decided that players on the permanently ineligible list will lose that status once they die."

That sounds so open ended. No matter the conduct of the person,
after they die they can then be honored in the Hall of Fame.

Not necessarily. The writers would still have to vote them in. Given that Bonds and Clemens have been eligible this whole time but haven't gotten in, it doesn't seem likely that Pete Rose is headed straight for the hall. However, he could someday get in on a Veterans committee vote.

[ethunder]

I’m not surprised that this happened but definitely big news and I expect both to be elected.

[JFried1029]

I think Shoeless Joe Jackson should get in. His statistics from the 1919 World Series don't correspond with someone who was throwing the Series.

[OriolesFan]

Personally, I don't see why "SHOELESS JOE" Jackson shouldn't make the baseball HOF. He wasn't found "guilty" of anything, and at the time there was NO HOF. Therefore, there were no HOF RULES for him to break. However, most of those other "well known" MLB players broke MLB and HOF rules AFTER the HOF was up and running, and adding more members. Yet, they VIOLATED the rules, and some LIED about it for many years (Rose being a good example). Those should NOT be brought into the HOF, even if they did as well as they did because THEY KNOWINGLY KNEW they were violating the rules. But, thinking they wouldn't/couldn't be caught, they kept doing it.