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Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is reviewing whether to reinstate the late Pete Rose from baseball's ineligible list, multiple outlets reported.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is reportedly considering removing Pete Rose from the ineligible list as President Donald Trump said he would pardon him.

"He's about the best teammate you could ever find," Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona said of Pete Rose when told MLB is mulling reinstatement.

Rob Manfred is considering a petition to reinstate Pete Rose, ESPN reported a day after Donald Trump said he would pardon MLB's all-time hit leader.

Pete Rose has been on MLB's permanently ineligible list since 1989. If the ban is lifted, he would be eligible for election to the Hall of Fame.

A lawyer for Rose's family told ESPN he's seeking the baseball player's removal from the banned list in a push to get him in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rose, who was placed on the permanently ineligible list in 1989 because of gambling, died in September of last year

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is reportedly mulling the potential reinstatement of baseball legend Pete Rose from the league's ineligible list. According to ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr., Manfred is "considering" a petition filed by Rose's family to have him posthumously removed from the list and allow him to become eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

President Donald Trump said on Friday he will be signing a pardon for Pete Rose, who died in September before ever seeing himself inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Training Media Day in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday also held some very newsy developments from MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, as well as other executives from around the league. Of course, news is constantly popping up in Reds camp,