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Originally Posted by monkeyman576
My ranking of the top 30 active players in order of liklihood to be inducted into the hall of fame:
1. Shohei Ohtani
2. Aaron Judge
3. Mike Trout
4. Justin Verlander
5. Clayton Kershaw
6. Max Scherzer
23. Nick Kurtz
24. Logan Gilbert
25. Craig Kimbrel
26. Gunnar Henderson
27. Bryce Harper
28. Emmanuel Clase
29. Chris Sale
30. Francisco Lindor
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I grant you that Bill Harper's grandbaby has never won a ring, and that in his younger days he was such an obnoxious dickwad that I was on Papelbon's side…
…and I grant you that his black and grey ink are surprisingly lacking since the vast majority of his ink came in his two MVP seasons…
…but he's above Edmonds on the Monitor already (Bryce has 93 points; 100 is "decent chance" territory), he's most likely going to reach 2000 hits and 500 HRs, and I can't think, off-hand, of any eligible player who has 2 MVPs (and a ROY, to boot) who
hasn't been selected…
So, I'm a touch surprised to see him four spaces behind a rookie on a bad team who has hardly any resume and who is, at the moment, best known for a "4 HR" game that deserves an asterisk the size of Cuddle-Buns Cal Raleigh's Caressable Cheeks. I mean, the Anthony Rendon 6-6 3HR game was IMO more impressive, and he hit one of those off of Kevin Plawecki, who might claim he deserved
part of two CYAs, but still.
JMO.