On Sunday, a pair of legends will be enshrined in the hallowed halls of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr., with the latter having come closer to unanimous induction into Cooperstown than any player before him.
Throughout his indelible 22-year career, "The Kid" dazzled with his ungodly abilities both afield and at the plate, earning 13 All-Star appearances, 10 Gold Gloves, seven Silver Slugger awards, and countless other accolades that will one day fill a very long, supremely interesting biography, no doubt. Since his induction speech is only minutes away, here's a handy list of some of the most eye-popping numbers from Griffey's career:
87.2 - Griffey's JAWS total - career WAR averaged with his seven-year peak WAR (a formula devised by Jay Jaffe to compare a player's HOF worthiness to those already enshrined at his position) - which ranks fourth best among center fielders.
33,866 - Fans at the Kingdome on April 10, 1989 for Griffey's home debut with Seattle, wherein the 19-year-old finished 1-for-3 with a walk and smacked his first MLB homer to lift the Mariners to a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox
630 - Career home runs, giving him more than all but five players - Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, and Willie Mays.
.254 - Lifetime isolated power (extra bases per at-bat, calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging percentage), tying Griffey with Joe DiMaggio and Mike Trout for the third-highest mark among live-ball era center fielders.
4 - Players who smacked 50 or more homers while swiping at least 20 bases in the same season. Griffey nearly did it twice, falling two homers shy in 1999 after going 56-20 the season prior.
171 - Adjusted OPS (OPS+) in 1993, Griffey's single-season high and the second-best mark in Mariners history (Edgar Martinez managed a 185 OPS+ in 1995, hitting .356/.479/.628 in 145 games).
7 - Seasons with at least 40 home runs, four shy of Babe Ruth's ludicrous all-time record of 11 40-homer campaigns. (No other player has more than eight).
1.016 - OPS from 1993 through 1997, the fourth best in baseball over that span (throughout which he averaged 41 homers and 13 stolen bases per year).
51 - MLB games in which he shared the field with his father, Ken Griffey Sr., who signed with Seattle in August 1990 and retired the following year.
15.56 - At bats per home run, the 26th-best mark in history among players with at least 3,000 plate appearances.
147 - Career high in RBIs, set in his 1997 MVP campaign, and the 19th-highest single-season mark since the end of World War II.
.895 - Average OPS in 104 plate appearances against Hall-of-Famers Greg Maddux, Bert Blyleven, Nolan Ryan, and John Smoltz.
.167 - Batting average in 15 career at-bats against Pedro Martinez, who was inducted into Cooperstown last year.
8 - Consecutive games with a home run in 1993, tying him with one-time All-Star Dale Long and New York Yankees icon (and current Miami Marlins manager) Don Mattingly for the MLB record.
99.32 - Percentage of 2016 Hall of Fame ballots that included Griffey's name, breaking Tom Seaver's voting percentage record of 98.84 (as well as Cal Ripken Jr.'s 98.53 record for position players).
