Yu Darvish's Stellar Career: Hall of Fame Potential?

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00:00 You Darvish, by the way, won his 200th career game, Matt, over the weekend.

00:04 That's 200 between Major League Baseball and overseas combined.

00:08 Only Hiroki Kuroda and Hideo Nomo have more, and he is going to pass them.

00:12 Yeah, I mean, I wonder if eventually he's a potential Hall of Fame candidate.

00:16 He has been doing this a long time.

00:18 Yeah, I don't think so right now.

00:21 I think he probably has to keep going.

00:23 But the days of seeing pitchers who win 300 are completely gone.

00:27 And it's really fascinating to see what kind of career he's carved out for himself.

00:32 Yeah, absolutely.

00:34 And I feel like there was a few years ago where it almost felt like he was done, whether

00:39 it was between injuries, declining performance.

00:42 He was obviously moving around a little bit.

00:44 And he sort of had this late career renaissance.

00:48 And at 37, he's obviously pitching as well as he ever has this year.

00:53 And he's in a good park.

00:55 He's got a pretty good team around him to do it.

00:58 And he's got good stuff.

00:59 I mean, you talk about, will he be a Hall of Famer?

01:02 That might be a tall order right now.

01:03 I mean, I think if the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame was similar to the NBA Hall of

01:08 Fame, where they take into account some of your foreign action, yeah, he'd probably be

01:13 in.

01:14 But as it stands right now, he'd have to have quite the ending to his career to get there.

01:18 But the way he's pitching this season, he could really put a fine exclamation point

01:24 on things because he's just been fantastic.

01:28 And the key this year has obviously been lowering that home run rate.

01:32 Now whether or not that'll continue remains to be seen.

01:34 A lot of guys start out great.

01:36 The hitters haven't quite caught up yet.

01:37 And then it gets warm and the ball starts flying a little more.

01:41 But he's certainly doing what's needed to help himself and, of course, help his team

01:47 in every regard so far this year.