MLB's Rob Manfred considering Pete Rose's removal from ineligible list: report

Former MLB star Will Clark appears on OutKick's "The Ricky Cobb Show" to talk about Pete Rose.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is reportedly considering removing Pete Rose from the league’s banned list, months after the game’s all-time hits leader died at the age of 83.

Rose’s family filed a petition with MLB on Jan. 8 to remove him from the list, ESPN reported Saturday. The baseball legend’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lenkov, told the outlet the petition was filed after Rose’s daughter met with Manfred and league spokesman Pat Courtney on Dec. 17.

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Pete Rose during a Reds game as player/manager in 1989. (USA Today Sports)

Manfred previously rejected Rose’s bid in December 2015 after the two met. Lenkov described the meeting with MLB brass as "productive" and said that Manfred had been "respectful" and gracious" in hearing the case.

"It is now time to turn the page on Pete Rose's legacy in baseball and for the Hall of Fame to honor him. Whether you are a fan or not of Pete Rose, we are at our best a nation of second chances, a nation of giving people second opportunities," Lenkov told ESPN. "We don't write off people."

President Donald Trump wrote in a post on social media on Friday that he planned to posthumously pardon Rose.

"Major League Baseball didn’t have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as ‘Charlie Hustle,’ into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME!" he wrote on Truth Social.

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