Jeff Kent has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens may be running out of chances to ever join him.
The Contemporary Baseball Era committee voted on Sunday to induct Kent, one of the best offensive second basemen in history, who won an MVP award during a late-career peak with the San Francisco Giants in the early 2000s. Fourteen of the 16 committee members voted in favor of Kent.
A good but unspectacular player in the first part of his career, Kent went to the Giants in 1997 and had a breakout season at age 29. He made his first All-Star Game at 31 and won the MVP award at 32 when he produced a career-best 7.4 fWAR and 1.021 OPS. After hitting 107 home runs in his 20s, Kent hit 258 in his 30s, going to All-Star Games as a member of the Giants, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers.