Pete Rose was certainly an important part of baseball history, but his checkered past has caused lots of debates over the years about his place in the sport. The former Cincinnati Reds legend passed away last fall and since then there's been more discussions about looking past some of his transgressions.

Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said he planned to issue a “complete” pardon of Pete Rose “over the next few weeks,” ESPN reported that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition filed by the family of 17-time All-Star in January that requested him to be removed from the sport’s ineligible list.

Trump called for Rose to be elected to the Hall of Fame and said MLB "didn’t have the courage or decency" to allow him in.