Column: Sammy Sosa is off the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot along with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. The former Chicago Cubs slugger never really had a chance.

That’s why Sosa received 12.5% of the votes on his first ballot in 2013, dropped as low as 6.6% in 2015 and then climbed back to 17% in 2021, his highest voting percentage before this year. While Bonds has been relatively close, coming in at 61.8% last year, he never was close enough to have a real shot.