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President Trump pardoned Major League Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry, who was convicted of tax evasion decades prior.
“President Trump has approved a pardon for Darryl Strawberry, three-time World Series champion and eight-time MLB All-Star,” a White House official said, according to The Hill.
“Mr. Strawberry served time and paid back taxes after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion. Following his career, Mr. Strawberry found faith in Christianity and has been sober for over a decade — he has become active in ministry and started a recovery center which still operates today,” the official added.
Trump pardons Mets legend Darryl Strawberry over tax evasion conviction https://t.co/XfUBMrjEFR pic.twitter.com/9PiD6PgD1i
— New York Post (@nypost) November 7, 2025
The Hill has more:
Strawberry first announced the pardon in an Instagram post earlier on Friday.
“Thank you, President @realdonaldtrump for my full pardon and for finalizing this part of my life, allowing me to be truly free and clean from all of my past,” he wrote in a post that included a picture of him and Trump.
Strawberry said he received the call yesterday afternoon and that the president “spoke warmly about my baseball days in NYC” and called him “the greatest player of the ‘80s” before he told him he was pardoning him.
“This has nothing to do with politics — it’s about a Man, President Trump, caring deeply for a friend. God used him as a vessel to set me free forever!” the former baseball player wrote.
Strawberry was among the most talented power hitters of his generation, winning three World Series championships and eight All-Star Game nominations during his career. He spent 13 of his 17 MLB seasons in Trump’s hometown of New York — eight with the New York Mets and five with the New York Yankees — with stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants in between.
Read Strawberry’s full Instagram post below:
from Darryl Strawberry: pic.twitter.com/LaO3eO1aKh
— Ron Bruning (@bruning_ron) November 7, 2025
More from the New York Post:
Strawberry, now 63, is the second member of the “Celebrity Apprentice” season 3 cast to receive presidential clemency, joining former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — whom Trump pardoned in February, five years after commuting Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence on federal corruption charges, most notably soliciting bribes in exchange for an appointment to the Senate seat held by then-President-elect Barack Obama.
The former slugger was sentenced to three years’ probation and repaid $350,000 in back taxes and penalties following his guilty plea, in addition to serving six months of home confinement.
The 1983 National League Rookie of the Year — who hit 335 home runs and drove in exactly 1,000 runs during a 17-year career with the Mets, Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants — was one of the biggest baseball stars of the 1980s and pegged by many as a surefire Hall of Famer.
Prior to the 1985 season, Strawberry signed a six-year contract extension with the Mets that paid him $7.1 million — $700,000 of which was set aside as an interest-bearing annuity, and was auctioned off by the IRS following his tax case.
In 1990, Strawberry signed a five-year, $20.25 million contract with the Dodgers, who released him during the 1994 season after he failed to show up for a game.
The rival Giants signed Strawberry a few weeks later for the remainder of the strike-shortened season, then released him in February 1995 after he tested positive for cocaine.
Strawberry ended his career with the New York Yankees in 1999 — effectively retiring after testing positive for cocaine again in 2000.