Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is reportedly reviewing a petition to reinstate Pete Rose. Hopefully that review doesn't take very long and ends in a definitive "no," because the league absolutely does not need to reinstate Rose,

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he plans to pardon the late baseball all-time hit king Pete Rose “in the coming weeks,” while Major League Baseball is considering a petition to posthumously remove the Cincinnati Reds icon from the sport’s ineligible list.

Pete Rose is all over the Hall of Fame. Baseball isn’t hiding his accomplishments. His hits record and his World Series wins with the Reds and the Phillies aren’t hard to find walking around the museum. Baseball isn’t denying his existence. He’s just not enshrined in the Hall of Fame. That’s how it should be.