In addition to Stanton, find out who else the former MLB ace wants to see make it to Cooperstown when it’s all said and done.
As a first-ballot inductee himself, CC Sabathia knows a thing or two about the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A space reserved for the game’s best of the best, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear the former MLB ace list out names such as Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge as future locks to make it to Cooperstown, but there is one name that Sabathia believes some folks might be overlooking.
“I think a lot of people don’t talk about Stanton,” Sabathia said on the latest episode of Network with Rich Kleiman. “Stanton’s got 460 homers. Anytime that guys plays a season, he hits 25 home runs a year. So, he’s going to end up with 500-something homers, so he’ll end up in Cooperstown, which I think would be great.”
Stanton ranks No. 40 on the all-time home-run list with 453, which is the highest amount for any active MLB player currently. Judge, meanwhile, sits in fifth at 368.
As he rounded out his list of active players who will eventually make the Hall of Fame, Sabathia didn’t go far, tapping a couple of Dodgers teammates to join Ohtani in baseball royalty.
“I think Mookie [Betts] is a Hall of Famer, and I think Freddie Freeman will end up being in the Hall of Fame,” Sabathia told Kleiman. “I would love to see Freddie Freeman get 3,000 hits and I would love for him to be able to get in the Hall of Fame, too.
Be sure to catch the full conversation between Sabathia and Kleiman at Boardroom’s YouTube channel here, as well as on Yahoo Sports’ Apple and Spotify pages.
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