Analyzing Stanton & Schwarber's Hall of Fame Prospects

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00:00I want to talk about two sluggers.

00:01I want to talk about a guy that is receiving a touch of NL MVP love

00:07and a guy that has really kept the Yankees afloat offensively

00:11over the last couple of weeks.

00:13Giancarlo Stanton on the Yankees' side, Kyle Schwarber on the Phillies' side.

00:16And they hurt my brain, much like the American League

00:19and just tiering who's good, who's contender-pretender type deal.

00:23I'm trying to figure out if both these guys are going to the Hall of Fame

00:26when it's all said and done.

00:27But because there's a camp that says, heck, yeah, they're both going.

00:32Of course, I mean, they could flirt with both of them

00:34are going to zoom past 400 homers.

00:36Stanton's already there.

00:37If Stanton gets to 500, you would think, oh, yeah, he's totally in.

00:41There's a world Schwarber gets to 500 as well

00:43if he continues this run that he's on at the moment.

00:46This guy seems like a lock for 35, 40 homers every year.

00:50And the way he looks, the way he's swinging it,

00:52you feel like the decline is nowhere close.

00:55So for me, I want to start overall and then get into a case-by-case.

00:59Do you feel like this kind of player is a Hall of Fame player?

01:04They're leading the charge of what's going to be, I think,

01:07a case that's going to come up a lot more as we move forward.

01:11And I know that people, I don't want to have the old head take.

01:15There's some former MLB players on social media and stuff

01:19that I was like, oh, this is the new norm.

01:21People love batting average right now.

01:23You've seen that?

01:24Oh, I've been seeing that.

01:25A lot of journeyman catchers love batting average.

01:28But they've studied.

01:30They've studied all that, apparently.

01:32This isn't an archetype that's taking over Major League Baseball.

01:35But it is one that I think you start to look at the definitive numbers

01:42a little bit more.

01:42We're like, if Adam Dunn got to 500, he's a Hall of Famer.

01:46He came up just short.

01:47It is silly to a degree, but I think with these types of players,

01:52it becomes a lot less ambiguous of, oh, well, they did a little bit of this

01:57or a little bit of that.

01:58I think you really clear-cut look at the numbers and say,

02:01did you exceed this threshold or not?

02:04And especially when it is so offensive-driven as well,

02:07which is going to be the case with both of these guys.

02:09I think Stanton has a much stronger case.

02:12And maybe there's a little bit of bias.

02:14I was just actually talking about this with Griffin Conine

02:17because this is the first player that we grew up watching

02:21and we could say we saw a home run 1 to 500.

02:25There's a lot of guys that I've seen home run 200 to 500

02:28or maybe 150 to 500, but there isn't a guy that I've seen 1 to 500.

02:33So that's really cool to think about in theory.

02:36The other thing that we were talking about in that conversation

02:38was Giancarlo Stanton should start every season in June, I think.

02:42I think he should ease in, get those elbow shots,

02:46do whatever you need to do, and then sprint.

02:49So he's not fading at the end, just sprint.

02:51And I know people are going to be like,

02:52oh, like, screw that, he's making too much money.

02:54We'll get what he's doing right now instead of losing him

02:57and having him fade at the end of the year.

02:59The other thing with Giancarlo Stanton, of course,

03:01this is firing me up because, again, I watched him come up

03:05in the football stadium in the teal.

03:07When he was Mike.

03:08He was Mike.

03:10He had two seasons of his prime where he hit like two

03:14and three home runs because he was hurt.

03:16And I know you can play that game with a lot of people,

03:18but it's a big reason why people look at Ken Griffey and say,

03:22man, that guy could have broke the home run record.

03:25Giancarlo Stanton at age 29 and 30,

03:27mind you, this is one year and two year removed

03:30from 59 home runs in the MVP with the Marlins,

03:33hit three and four home runs.

03:35I know that he has never quite recaptured that MVP level,

03:39but let's just say he hit 35, 40 home runs in those two years.

03:43He would already be at 500.

03:45So I think that's worth just thinking about

03:47and how injuries have limited him a little bit

03:49so that if he does get to 500,

03:51even though I think that should be an automatic conversation,

03:53he gets a 500 with injuries.

03:56And then you add in the post-season performance and everything.

03:59I think he's a shoo-in.

04:01I really do.

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