A-Rod is a PED cheater who'd sully the Hall Of Fame with his inclusion … so claims former MLB superstar Kenny Lofton, who says if he had his way, Rodriguez would NEVER be enshrined in Cooperstown.
We got Kenny out at LAX and asked the 6-time All-Star the question everyone's been asking since the Yankees announced Rodriguez was being released later this week.
Any chance … even an outside one, he makes the Hall of Fame?
You know the issues … Alex was busted for PEDs twice — a stat that some baseball purists believe puts him on the Hall's persona non grata list next to Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds.
Kenny is definitely in that camp … absolutely EVISCERATING A-Rod to our camera guy, saying flatly, "You can't put a cheater in. Once you put one in, you got to put them all in."
Lofton also points out he was a non-PED using STUD when the rest of the league was juiced out of their faces … and thinks HOF voters should take that into consideration when it comes to his own HOF chances.