Fact: Pete Rose bet on baseball. Fact: betting on baseball brings a lifetime ban. Fact: Rose is dead. Does that mean he should now be inducted?

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition filed by the family of Pete Rose to have him posthumously reinstated from the league’s ineligible list, a league source confirmed to The Athletic.

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