[VanillaGorilla]

With 2 pitchers to be enshrined this year, also, this is already the coolest class of this this HOF. Gary Carter and Carlton Fisk inducted together? How awesome is that?

IRL, the VC inducted Richie Ashburn the same year that Mike Schmidt was a gimmie first ballot choice. That was nice time to put in Ashburn and celebrate the greats of Philly together.

Carter and Fisk entering together just happened through the process, and the process only. Very cool.

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Gary Carter was selected 5th overall in the 2031 draft by, ironically (considering his classmate's RL career), the Boston Red Sox.

In 2032 he broke into the league batting .303 with 41 HRs and 99 RBI and a npa OPS+ of 174 to take ROY honors.

6 times in his career he hit 40+ Hrs and 6 times he drove in over 120.

In 2039 he led the league in HR, R, TB, and EBH as he hit career highs in its (209), HR (67), R (124), RBI (174), BB (75), and in each slash stat (355/470/770) as he won the MVP with a npa OPS+ of 212.

Carter's 2039 season is the best VORP/WAR season for a catcher. He also set the mark for top SLG and OPS by a C in a season. He also set the mark for TB by as a C, breaking his own record from his 63 HR season the year before.

He is second in career C HRs and C IP to Fisk.

He appeared in 10 All Star games and won 4 GGs as a catcher.

618 (25th) of his 2678 career hits (t-46th) were HRs. He drove in 1809 (t-19th, Carl Yastrzemski) and scored 1485 (58th, 1 ahead of Frank Chance). Carter retired with a career slash line of 290/363/546 gives him a npa OPS+ of 148. He enters the HOF 65th on the slg list and tied for 72nd on the OPS list.

Dave Parker now has his favorite home plate target to play with, forever, in the virtual corn field.

Carter enters the HOF with Gray ink, HOFm and HOFs numbers all above the Hall averages.

Black Ink: 18 (4)
Gray Ink: 140 (75)
HOFm: 309 (131)
HOFs: 72 (41)

Gorilla Composite: 5.1 (2.4)

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Selected by the Dodgers with the 13th pick in the 2027 draft, Carlton Fisk enters the HOF as the career leader in a multitude of categories for a catcher. They Include: Games, AB, R, H, TB, HR, and RBI.

He started 2928 games at the position, 599 more than anyone else.

His 25732 IP at C is ocer 5500 more than second placeholder Gary Carter.

Drafted 4 years before Gary Carter, Fisk retired in 2051, as did Carter.

Carter had better individual seasons over the course of his career (Fisk never won an MVP) but Fisk has the superior career totals. Who was better? Take your pick.

Fisk rapped 3071 hits (18th) in his ML career, 686 were HRs (12th). He also hit 572 doubles (34th, 2 ahead of Dave Parker) as he drove in 2013 (8th) and scored 1713 (14th, 8 ahead of Hank Thompson). His career slash line of 268/335/505 gives him a career npa OPS+ of 130.

Neither Carter nor Fisk ever won a WS.

Fisk enters the HOF with HOFm/s numbers both above the Hall averages. He was named to 10 All Star teams, just as was Carter.

IRL, Fisk is the third most similar player to Carter, and Carter the second most similar to Fisk (Johnny Bench is the most similar to both).

Black Ink: 4 (1)
Gray Ink: 115 (54)
HOFm: 253.5 (120)
HOFs: 73 (49)

Gorilla Composite: 4.1 (2.2)

ADD: Carter and Fisk are the 41st/42nd RL HOFers to be inducted into this HOF.