Monday night Slugger Jim Thome recorded his 600th career home run in the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers. Thome 600th home run came on his 8,167th at-bat, which is the second fastest in Major League history. Babe Ruth reached 600 home runs in 6,920 at-bats. Thome also became the first big-leaguer to his numbers 599 and 600 in consecutive at-bats. He became the 8th player to reach this mark. And not only was he the 8th man to reach 600 but he is 8th all-time on the home run list behind Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds, and Thome is only the 4th lefty every to hit 600.
Of the guys ahead of him on the Home Run list, 3 of them are already in the Baseball hall of fame, Mays Aaron and Ruth. Of the remaining 5 guys, Thome included, I can only really see 2 of them getting into the hall of fame clean, Jim himself and Ken Griffey Jr. What I mean by that is, Griffey and Thome are both hall of famers there is no debate on this topic. The debate here is to whether or not Sosa, Bonds, or A-Rod get in. The reason I say that is again due to the steroid allegations. Of those three guys though the one I feel with the best chance to get in is A-Rod because he had a very very good career before the steroids accusations hit him. As for Jim Thome he deserves every bit of the recognition he got and for that I tip my hat to him for hitting #600!
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