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Current players who can replicate Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire 1998 home run totals

If watching "Long Gone Summer" left you wanting more, let's point you in the right direction.

I asked some of our baseball minds at NBC Sports Chicago which present-day MLB player they think can closest replicate Mark McGwire's (70) and Sammy Sosa's (66) home run totals from 1998.

Our White Sox scribe Vinnie Duber kicks it off:

"It’s certainly possible, though there might only be a few guys who could do it on an annual basis," Duber said, "as opposed to the variety of guys who were turning in 40- and 50-homer seasons in the '90s and early 2000s.