GianCarlo Stanton - Hall of Fame?

They are going to make RBIs great again.

 

They're not, I don't think. Do you ever even hear RBIs talked about or written about anymore, casually? I don't. I understand their place in a box score, however.

Relatedly, I was looking at the 2001 Cy Young voting totals this weekend, while looking into Mike Mussina's HOF case. Wow, was he robbed. Finished fifth, without a single first-place vote. Should have won it. The only reason he didn't was wins.

 

Joey Belle would have skated into Cooperstown (and won the 1995 MVP) if he weren't such a cock.

 

BTW, it's Giancarlo.

Jeff Passan looks at 10 current players for the HOF. Stanton not on the list.

On the 10-year anniversary of Barry Bonds' home run record, a look at current players' Hall of Fame chances

 

There will be more than 10 current players in the Hall of Fame.

 

Current players that will be in the Hall of Fame:

Locks (6):
Ichiro
Beltre
Pujols
Cabrera
Trout (I know about the 10-year minimum rule)
Kershaw

Close, but not there yet (5):
Sabathia
Beltran
Cano
Pedroia
Verlander

30 and younger, but on Hall trajectory (8):
Harper
Posey
Stanton
McCutchen
Altuve
Machado
Sale
Bumgarner

Over 30 (none of these guys are close, but might get in if they play well into their late 30s) (9):
Votto
Utley
Molina
Hernandez
Greinke
Hamels
Scherzer
Mauer
Longoria


Too early to project (13):
Andrus
Freeman
Arenado
Rizzo
Betts
Lindor
Correa
Goldschmidt
Judge
Seager
Bryant
Kimbrel
Porcello

 

I think Votto is closer than you give him credit for, but at first glance that's a pretty good list. I think Cano is probably a lock.

 

After Pujols and Cabrera, Votto is proably the best hitter on that list. But he's 34 next month and only has 1500 hits and 800 RBI. If we're judging by recent hall of fame standards, that's not enough. But 15 years from now standards might shift.

 

Good lists. I'm a Sox fan though and I don't think Pedroia is close. He's 33 and sits at 1786 hits. He's not going to approach 3,000 hits. Maybe if he wins another MVP or goes crazy in a postseason, but right now I don't see it. Unless that's what ya meant by close -- as in needs that little iconic thing to push them across and not just compiling stats.

 

Pedroia doesn't need to get to 3,000 hits to make it in. His numbers look a lot like Barry Larkin, and he only needed less than 2400 hits to make it into the Hall. By close I mean he's at least 75% of the way there - he just needs maybe 5 more healthy, productive years.

 

Damn it, not before Bobby Grich.

 

How is Bobby Grich going to get into the Hall?