{"id":565567,"date":"2026-03-28T01:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565567\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:35:30","slug":"yankees-giancarlo-stanton-closes-in-on-hall-of-fame-level-mlb-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565567\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Giancarlo Stanton closes in on Hall of Fame-level MLB history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steroid Era changed things a bit, but 500 home runs is still 500 home runs, especially for guys who are believed to get there in a clean manner.<\/p>\n<p>Giancarlo Stanton simply hits home runs by being bigger and stronger than everyone else. And he&#8217;s getting closer to 500.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>&#8216; DH hit his first homer of this new season on Friday in San Francisco. It was a no-doubter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giancarlo Stanton&#8217;s first home run of the year is a NO-DOUBTER! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DWv1B48XVl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DWv1B48XVl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/2037652652528464306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-aaron-judge-ties-ralph-kiner-todd-helton-mlb-history\/529b639135b4a18341ac884c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Judge ties Ralph Kiner, Todd Helton in MLB history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, when Stanton hits them, they stay hit.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the 454th home run of Stanton&#8217;s career. No active player has hit more.<\/p>\n<p>He currently ranks 40th in MLB history, one spot ahead of Carl Yastrzemski.<\/p>\n<p>The next spot Stanton is chasing is still a chunk of home runs away. Tied for 38th in MLB history are Jose Canseco and Adam Dunn. They each hit 462 homers.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton seems unlikely to hit 47 home runs this season to get to 500 in this campaign. But it&#8217;s a lot more realistic to think that Giancarlo has a chance to make it happen in 2027, if he stays healthy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll definitely be a special thing to track for Yankees fans, and those who have watched Stanton since he began his career with the Marlins. He&#8217;s one of the best home run hitters of this latest era of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steroid Era changed things a bit, but 500 home runs is still 500 home runs, especially for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-565567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}