Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has little patience for anyone threatening to flee the United States because of Tuesday’s election results.
“Who ever said, ‘I’ll leave America if Trump wins,'” the 62-year-old wrote on X, “… don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
Clemens has been in a celebratory mood on social media since Donald Trump won a second term in office on Tuesday by defeating Kamala Harris at the ballot box.
Clemens, a native Texan who spent six years with Trump’s favorite team, the New York Yankees, described the Republican’s victory as “great for our great country.”
He also congratulated Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, and billionaire financier, Elon Musk.
Roger Clemens (left) has been in a festive mood since Donald Trump’s election victory
Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has little patience for anyone threatening to flee the United States over Tuesday’s election results
“Incredible work @elonmusk and @JDVance, but I’m most proud of the people,” Clemens wrote. ‘We did it! #RedWave2024.’
He also posted from his son, Kacy, a former minor leaguer and vocal Trump supporter: “
“I can’t sleep until I see the Don speak and see him dance,” Kacy wrote.
Kacy is one of Clemens’ four sons, all of whom have names that start with “K,” baseball scorers’ abbreviation for a strikeout. Another son, Kody, currently plays for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Clemens’ legacy in baseball is complicated, to say the least.
Considered by many to be one of the greatest pitchers ever, he set a Major League record with the Boston Red Sox by striking out 20 batters in a game in 1986, and did the same ten years later. Along the way, the former Texas Longhorns star established himself as one of the game’s best pitchers before moving on to Toronto and New York, where he won a pair of World Series titles in the Bronx.
But Clemens will forever be linked to baseball’s steroid era.
He was named in the infamous Mitchell Report, a twenty-month investigation into steroid use in baseball.
Trump (L) and Bill O’Reilly watch one of Clemens’ old teams, the Yankees, in 2012
Roger Clemens will be remembered as one of the most feared pitchers of the 80s and 90s
Clemens’ former Yankees teammates Jose Canseco, Andy Pettitte and Jason Grimsley have claimed they were aware of his steroid use during his time in the Bronx
In the report, former Yankees coach Brian McNamee stated that he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998, 2000 and 2001. Former teammates Jose Canseco, Andy Pettitte and Jason Grimsley also claimed to know Clemens was also using steroids.
Clemens was ultimately found not guilty of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he did not use steroids.
The controversy nevertheless tarnishes his reputation, as Clemens has been repeatedly passed over for the Hall of Fame, having never received the 75 percent of votes needed for nomination over the past decade on the ballot. Theoretically, however, he could later be inducted by the Hall’s Eras committees.
Today, Clemens has made a number of public appearances, including celebrity golf tournaments. He even pitched for a new barnstorming team, the Savannah Bananas, in Houston in March.
Ultimately, he gave up three hits and three runs in just a third of an inning, so an MLB comeback seems unlikely.