First of all, you don't know if Fred McGriff took steroids.

"McGriff is a victim here. If all those players who took performance-enhancing drugs while he played were cheating baseball, McGriff may have lost the most. Together, all those crooks with the cartoon biceps and inflated statistics made his numbers look ordinary by comparison. They made 30 home runs look tiny. They made 100 RBIs look pedestrian. Their counterfeit accomplishments diminished McGriff, making him look less dangerous, less special. They stole from McGriff like an Internet swindler with your bank account number."

Secondly: 162-game average of .284, 32 HRs, 102 RBIs.

That's a HOF first baseman?

You can eliminate the first baseman who bloated their stats with steroids -- some speculation has to occur, of course -- Bagwell, Palmeiro, McGwire, Giambi, Ortiz, Vaughn -- and McGriff is still not a HOFer.

Because, to get into the HOF as a first baseman, you have to compare yourself to players like Gehrig and Greenberg.