I figured as much but is his image that tarnished that no MLB team will look at him? Or is this more of him just not wanting to deal with the MLB schedules?
Clemens is 50 years old and his fastball tops out at 87. Even if he had no image concerns and could handle the schedule, he physically can't compete at an MLB level anymore, I'd assume. He clearly loves the game, but needs the lower level of competition.
I bet he could if they let him pitch only on Saturday home games. That's the kind of situation players can get with independent teams. Don't have to travel, don't have to pitch when they don't want to, etc. If a team at the MLB level could conceivably sign him and then him only pitch once every 7-10 days with zero travel schedule, I'm convinced he could still be effective. His biggest problem in his last comeback was he couldn't stay fresh and healthy. His legs were really tired. He still pitched 99 innings for the Yankees of pretty good baseball. Of course, that was at age 44 lol.
Smart move by the Skeeters. It's going to be a packed house on Saturday and again any other time he pitches.
I assume this doesn't affect his eligibility for the Hall? Is it 5 years out of the majors or 5 years out of baseball?
Probably nothing... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>MLB sources confirm Astros director of scouting Mike Elias was at Roger Clemens' workout for the Sugar Land Skeeters today</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/237682006568366080" data-datetime="2012-08-20T22:46:20+00:00">August 20, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
