do you tink anyone will pass Hank Aaron in the next 15 years if so who???
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A-Rod, Pujols, and possibly Bonds. Maybe even all three.\n\nBy the way, Pujols has a chance to break Barry Bonds's single season HR record too.
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Clemens will probably be selected to the Hall of Fame with the highest percentage of votes ever. Seven Cy Young awards says it all.\n\nNo, he's not hurting his legacy at all, especially since he's still a dominant figure while he's out on the mound (even though he only goes 6 innings at the most)...\n\nEven if he was hurting his legacy, what right does anyone else have to tell him not to?  It's his life, it's his legacy, isn't it?  None of us lose anything by having him pitch as long as he has.\n\nI saw Willie Mays hit a home run when he was playing for the Mets in 1972...it didn't matter to me that he was 41 years old at the time, and a mere shadow of his former self... hey, I saw the great Willie Mays hit a home run...  Clemens is a far better player since turning 40 than Mays was (Mays actually had an excellent year at 40, but slipped badly as a 41 and a 42 year old)... but it doesn't matter...he has long since been a shoo-in to be a first ballot Hall of Famer... the fact that he's pitching so great at his age simply means that he will approach or exceed Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver's vote percentages, in my opinion.
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Pujols is an amazing athlete and I do think he will beat Bonds single season record. He is a class act and his setting the record will be a good thing for baseball. Then we can start watching as he begins to eclipse the various milestones to one day be the all time home run leader.
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Albert Pujols. I live by St. Louis but I'm not just saying him cause i live here. He's mlb leader in homers(16) Sure there's people like Chris Shelton with a lot of homers but not good average. Pujols has good average and homers(16)
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Mantle, Williams, Dimaggio, Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Mays, Rose, just to name a few. But these are considered the greatest of all time, so Pujols is right there with them, but he still has to prove it over his whole career. I hope he does, hes a great ball player.
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Ortiz ( or should I say "Big Papi" )!!!!
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I often try to predict this myself, for all sports, but especially for baseball:\n\nI agree with all of your no-brainers, but Biggio (could make it) and Trevor Hoffman (not many relivers have made it, and was he that outstanding?)\nOf your potential HOF'ers:  Off the top, I think Manny is pretty much a no-brainer, and don't believe that Luis Gonzalez or Johnny Damon has much of a shot at all. Many of your others are pretty good picks for this category, though.\n\nI agree with your "close but no cigar" list, and will withhold commentary on the steroid issue.  I haven't sorted that out yet.
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C - Mike Piazza - Me may not be a defensive star, but his bat can't be ignored\n\n1B - Lou Gehrig - Albert Pujols may hold down this spot one day, but he's going to have to keep it up for another 5-10 years before he does. Gehrig is a career .340 hitter with nearly 500 homers. Only Jimmy Foxx comes close. \n\n2B - Rogers Hornsby - His 1922 season when he had 250 hits and  42 homers while batting .401 is the best season ever by a second baseman. He batted .358 for his career\n\n3B - Alex Rodriguez - Mike Schmidt actually deserves the nod here, but the edge is slight. It's only a matter of time (a year or two) before A-Rod cements his place as the game's best ever third baseman. \n\nSS - Cal Ripken - The answer here probably should be Honus Wagner...but because of his ability to play every day, power, and the fact that I've actually seen him, Cal Ripken is my pick. \n\nOF - Babe Ruth - No contest. He's the best player to ever play the game, nevermind the best outfielder. \n\nOF - Ted Williams - "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived"\n\nOF - Willie Mays - The guy could do it all...run, hit, hit for power, field...The games most well rounded player\n\nDH - Barry Bonds - Love him, hate him, steroirds or not....whatever. Quit bitching about what he may or migiht have done and watch the damn game. Then you'll see that this guy is one of the greatest of all time. He's not a DH, but I figured with his knees he could use a rest. \n\nRHP - Roger Clemens - You could say Walter Johnson...you could say Cy Young. You could even be a complete fool and go with Nolan Ryan. But in an age dominated by hitters, Clemens has dominated everyone. \n\nLHP - Randy Johnson - He was a good pitcher up until he turned 30. Then he became a great pitcher. Everything clicked for him and he dominated the game.\n\ncloser - Mariano Rivera - The closer has become the most overrated player in the game today. Gone are the days where they actually did their team good by going 2 or 3 innings, holding a lead, and dominated a team. But in this age of closers who don't do all that much, Rivera has actually managed to make a difference. He's not the typical closer who pitches an inning a game and manages to rack up 35 saves with 50 innings for the entire year. The guy shortens games. If the Yankees are leading after 8, they win the game.
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"Hammering" Hank Aaron
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How good can he be?  He's in his sixth season, so that's five complete seasons.  IF he can stay healthy for a 20 year career, at his averages after 5 seasons (multiply them by 4 for a 20 year career), you're looking at:\n\n3928 hits, 3rd all time behind Rose and Cobb\n2516 runs, 221 ahead of Rickey Henderson's record\n908 doubles, 116 ahead of Tris Speaker's record\n804 home runs, 49 ahead of Hank Aaron's record\n2484 RBI's, 187 ahead of Hank Aaron's record\n7336 total bases, 408 ahead of Aaron's record\n1604 walks, 11th all time\n.418 OBP, tied for 10th all time\n.629 SLG, 4th all time behind Ruth, Williams and Gehrig\n.331 BA, tied for 21st all time - appropriately enough, with Musial
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Pujols will hot the most and I'm predicting somewhere in the mid to low 50's. The reason he won't hit more is because he's becoming the new Bonds and pitchers are gonna start intentionally walking him with no one on in close games. And even when they're not walking him intentionally he will still start seeing less and less "quality" pitches. How well he adjusts to this will be the sole factor in how many home runs he can hit this year.\n\nAnd I hope he hits a ton because I a big fan of Albert. He one of the few role models left in baseball, on and off the field.
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you best believe andruw jones will!  i am predicting right now that he will carry the braves to a 15th consecutive title.  he will hit 50 homeruns once again, STEROID FREE, and like always, be the best centerfielder in the game.  he doesn't get enough credit for everything he does so hands down, its his year for mvp.
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Derek Jeter - no question he will go in\n \nAlex Rod - yes, he will go\n\nMatsui - tough to say, but with half a major league career and half of a Japanese career, he probably won't.\n\nJohnny Damon - No I don't think he will go, I don't see him putting up the career numbers necessary to make it, especially considering the fact that he's a center fielder. Writers who vote for the HOF expect more power from the CF position. He's played 11 seasons so far, but has only made the All-Star team twice...that's not very good...\n\n\nBarry Bonds - yes, unless they manage to ban him somehow, which is what they appear to be doing.\n\nJason Jambi (sic) - he MIGHT go, but it depends on how the writers view the steroids issue in 20 years. The further you get from the end of a player's career, the more important his stats become in the HOF's evaluation of him. Sportwriters like to think they have good memories, but most of them really don't.\n\n\nGary Shettfield - I think Shefield has a good chance to get in some day, unless he's somehow banned for steroid use. He's put great #s on the board, and has played for some winning teams. If his career is long enough to put some really great career numbers up, there's no reason he wouldn't go in eventually, though maybe not on the first few ballots.\n\n\nCarlos beltron - way too early to tell. But if he keeps up this quality of play for 10 to 12 years, he should make it.\n\nMike Pizzatza - Piazza is a shoe-in. Twelve all star games...  never won an MVP but finished 2nd twice and 3rd another time. A .311 career batting average to go along with  397 HR and 1,223 RBI... He's probably the best hitting catcher ever to play in the major leagues.  Slugging pct of .555... These are definitely Hall of Fame numbers, considering we're talking about a catcher here. Plus, he's had six 100-RBI season, with another four season in the 90+ RBI range.  It would be tough to find someone who played in 12 All Star Games and isn't in the HOF.\n\n\nPedro Marntiez - Yes, Pedro will go into the HOF.
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Yeah, probably, at least according to his numbers posted in the steroid/HGH era (ca. 1986 - present).  But then again, considering all that has been discovered over the past two seaons, I have the strong right to wonder if he were/is probably on some illegal performance enhancer himself.  So I would be hesitant to put his name on the top of the list.  In fact, I don't think any player of this same era should have any record in the record books, considering that there is just way too much of a cloud of doubt surrounding just about every single baseball star who has played during this period.  \n\nPersonally, I find it kind of strange that Clemens seemed to be on the decline of his career in the early-to-mid 90s only to re-surface as an amazingly dominant pitcher again a few years later with Toronto.  I mean, the Red Sox must have known that he was on his way out -- sure, teams make mistakes all the time (and the 1990s Red Sox weren't exactly the smartest team around), but not to the point where an organization would have been so entirely, utterly wrong about the future of a franchise player.  It's all just too fishy.  So, that said, I don't think we can ever really judge the extent of Clemens' "greatness".  Which, by the way, is the same reason why I'm not sure how easy it is to gauge any player's "greatness", because many "great" players have either found ways around the rules (corked bats, spit-ball pitchers, etc.) or have just benefitted from favorable conditions unavailable to players of other generations (such as pitchers during the dead-ball era, or sluggers during the Coors Field/Jose Canseco "juiced" era).
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Yes, he will.  The only exception would be if he gets banned for drug use.  \n\nHe'll end up either 1st or 2nd on the home runs charts, and that alone will put him in on the first ballot.  People may not like him, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be in the hall.\n\nTy Cobb was widely hated when he was around.  He would TRY to hurt guys with his spikes, but he is regarded as one of the best hitters ever and he went in on 98% of the vote...more than BABE RUTH and WALTER JOHNSON!
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All time hits king. He deserves to be there,and it's a damn shame that hes not. People make mistakes. If Darryl Strawberry gets a million chances for snorting cocaine over and over again. Pete Rose,one of the greatest hitters ever,deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Bud Selig is an idiot!!!! I am pissed off now that I have to think hes not in the Hall of Fame.
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Yes he will and he will retire a Yankee too.  They will pay him more.