Bonds is Major League Baseball’s career home run leader with 762 over a 22-year career, including a single-season record 73 in 2001, while Clemens won a record seven Cy Young Awards as top pitcher with 354 wins, a 3.12 earned-run average, and 4,672 strikeouts in a 24-year career.

Clemens was alleged to have taken steroids in later years of his career by former trainer Brian McNamee but denied the claims in testimony before the US Congress. He was charged with perjury for lying in his denial, and after a mistrial, he was found innocent in 2012 of lying to lawmakers.

Bonds, whose personal trainer Greg Anderson was among those convicted in the BALCO steroid scandal, was indicted in 2007 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the BALCO case, but the perjury charges were dropped, and an obstruction conviction was overturned in 2015.

Nevertheless, neither player has yet reached the 75% voting support needed from the Baseball Writers of America panel to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and inducted in July ceremonies at Cooperstown, New York.

Bonds and Clemens each debuted on the Hall of Fame ballot in 2013, with Bonds getting 36.2% support and Clemens 37.6%. Last year, Clemens was at 54.1% and Bonds on 53.8%.

Ryan Thibodaux, a Hall of Fame vote tracker who has ballot information from almost half of this year’s voters, tweeted on Monday that support for Clemens and Bonds was currently at around 64%.

He foresees plenty of support for Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, and Vladimir Guerrero, with relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman and Edgar Martínez just inside the cut-off line, and pitchers Mike Mussina and Curt Schilling outside it.