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The league has expanded to 36 teams. Memphis and Charlotte are the new NL additions.

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Boog Powell enters the HOF at the age of 59, 20 years after his retirement.

Powell was the 15th player selected in the 2006 draft (Marlins). His career here is similar to Ken Griffey Jr's. He was plagued by injuries that cost him significant playing time in over half of his seasons. In spite of this, he still put up tremendous career totals.

Following the 2025 season Powell had 2422 career hits. He wanted to reach 2500, but no team gave him a job in 2026....or in 2027. In 2028 he received a minor league offer from the Dodgers, which he accepted. Powell again faced injuries and retired having collected only 3 hits in 18 ABs in 2028.

Powell, of course, was a power guy. Here he hit 613 HRs (18th, three more than Mike Epstein) and drove in 1632 (35th). He scored 1463 (49th, two behind Troy Tulowitski). He walked 1288 times (36th) to go along with his 2425 hits (70th, three fewer than Ed Konetchy).

he posted a career slash line of 291/386/562 (*/81st/40th)which was good for a manly HOF npa OPS+ of 157. He is 27th on the All Time OPS list, just behind Charlie Keller.

An 8 time All Star, Powell won 2 GGs at 1B. He took the Marlins to 4 post seasons, but never made it to a WS.

Powell enters by virtue of his HOFM and HOFs numbers being above the Hall average.

Black Ink: 7 (3)
Gray Ink: 125 (93)
HOFm: 170 (42)
HOFs: 56 (25)

Gorilla Composite: 3.4 (1.5)

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Clyde Milan had an even longer wait than Boog Powell. Having retired in 2012, Milan gave his acceptance speech at the age of 70.

Milan was a completely different type of player than Powell. 4 times Milan led the league in stolen bases. In 2001 he stole 134 to break the league record held by Tony Campana from 1979, the 7th year of the league. Since then, no one has surpassed Milan's mark, or Campana's. In 2002 he stole 102 bases, leading the league, again.

A 5 time All Star and a GG winner in RF, Milan stole 758 career bases (8th). He carried a career batting average of .304 (65th, 0.0001 ahead of Pete Rose and 0.0001 behind Vada Pinson)as he rapped 2477 base hits (59th, three behind Duke Snider). From 1999-2001, he collected 200 hits each season.

Milan was selected by the Brewers with the 6th overall selection in the 1996 draft. He played with them through 2011. He played his final season as a Mariner.

He had a career OBP of .390 (56th) and a career SLG or .403 (he had 73 career HRs) for a npa OPS+ of 115.

He appeared in 4 post seasons and took the Brewers to 1 WS, but like all players that have taken the Brewers to the WS, he did not win them a title.....

Milan enters by virtue of his HOFs number being above the current Hall average.

Black Ink: 21 (6)
Gray Ink: 112 (75)
HOFm: 113 (24)
HOFs: 51 (23)

Gorilla Composite: 3.3 (1.4)