Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has little patience for anyone who threatens to flee the United States over 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 butt on the way out.”
Clemens has been in a celebratory mood on social media since Donald Trump won a second term by defeating Kamala Harris at the polls on Tuesday.
Clemens, a Texas native who spent six years with Trump’s favorite team, the New York Yankees, described the Republican’s victory as “huge for our great country.”
He also congratulated Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, and billionaire backer Elon Musk.
Roger Clemens (left) has been in good spirits since Donald Trump’s election victory.
Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has little patience for anyone who threatens to flee the United States over Tuesday’s election results.
“Amazing job @elonmusk and @JDVance but I’m so proud of the people,” Clemens wrote. ‘We did it! #RedWave2024.’
He also reposted something from his son, Kacy, a former minor league player and vocal Trump supporter: ‘
“I can’t sleep until I see the Don talk and watch him dance,” Kacy wrote.
Kacy is one of four Clemens children, all of whom have names beginning with ‘K,’ short for strikeout in baseball scorekeepers. 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 of all time, he set a major league record with the Boston Red Sox by striking out 20 batters in a game in 1986 and did so a decade later. Along the way, the former Texas Longhorns star established himself as one of the game’s best pitchers before moving to Toronto and New York, where he won a pair of World Series titles in the Bronx.
But Clemens will always be linked to baseball’s steroid era.
He was named in the infamous Mitchell Report, which was a 20-month investigation into steroid use in baseball.
Trump (left) and Bill O’Reilly are seen in 2012 watching one of Clemens’ former teams, the Yankees.
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 manager 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 that Clemens also used steroids.
Clemens was eventually found not guilty of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he did not take steroids.
However, the controversy tarnished his reputation, as Clemens has been repeatedly passed over for the Hall of Fame, never receiving the 75 percent of the votes needed for induction during his ten years on the ballot. However, in theory it could be admitted in the future by the Hall’s Era Committees.
These days, Clemens has made several public appearances, including celebrity golf tournaments. He even pitched for a novelty team, the Savannah Bananas, in Houston in March.
In the end, he allowed three hits and three runs in just one-third of an inning, so an MLB comeback would seem unlikely.
