The most important implication of Manfred's decision has to do with the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pursuant to Rose's placement on the permanently ineligible list, the Hall in 1991 ruled that players on that list could not be elected into the Hall of Fame.

Commissioner Rob Manfred’s landmark decision enables Rose and other players to finally be considered for Cooperstown, but it hardly makes any of them a shoo-in. Not even the Hit King.