Could Ken Griffey Jr. be baseball’s first unanimous Hall of Famer?

There’s little doubt about whether or not Ken Griffey Jr. will be part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The more apt question might be whether he deserves to be the first-ever unanimous selection.

“I’d be willing to say no,” said Dave Grosby on 710 ESPN Seattle’s “Bob, Groz and Tom” on Monday. “If Hank Aaron wasn’t unanimous, if Willie Mays wasn’t unanimous, if Mickey Mantle wasn’t unanimous… Jackie Robinson wasn’t unanimous. Should the first unanimous guy happen now? No, it shouldn’t happen.”

Griffey is the headliner for the 2016 ballot sent Monday to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, who will pick between 32 former players for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Griffey starred in center field for the Mariners for 11 of his 22 seasons in the Majors. He is sixth all-time in homers (630) and ranks respectably high in most every other important offensive category. He also earned the 1997 MVP, won 10 Gold Gloves for his defense and appeared in 13 All-Star games.

First-ballot inductions are expected for players of Griffey’s caliber, but so are snubs from baseball writers. Induction means receiving a vote on 75 percent of the ballots. No player has ever received support from every voter, with pitcher Tom Seaver receiving the highest percentage of votes, at 98.84.

Of the 32 players on the ballot, 15 are held over from previous years, including all-time greats Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, who have been shut out due to their names being connected with steroids. Griffey, on the other hand, does not have that stigma attached.

“It’s beyond no evidence of him not having steroids,” Grosby said. “You look at his career arc, you look at the numbers he produced in his career, he did not all of the sudden get better at 38 and get healthier at 37 and have his best years after those period of time, like Barry Bonds did, for example.”

Groz even called Griffey “soft,” noting that he never lifted weights and was not muscular in any way.

“He wasn’t fat or anything like that, but he wasn’t cut, he had no significant muscle definition,” he said. “That wasn’t what he was about. He hit because he had that great swing.”

Despite that fact, Tom Wassell said some voters will likely still dock Griffey.

“I think some people out there probably think he was on something just by virtue of the fact that he played in that era,” he said.

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Griffey is expected be the first ever player inducted into the Hall to go in as a Mariner, as his former Seattle teammate Randy Johnson, who received 92.27 percent of the votes in 2015, entered as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Another of Griffey’s ex-teammates, Edgar Martinez, returns to the ballot for the seventh year, after garnering 27 percent of the vote in 2015.

Groz called Griffey the “ultimate five-tool player” and “the most exciting ballplayer” he ever watched – by a mile.

“He was worth the price of admission for games all the time, because in every game it felt like he would at least make a great defensive play or would do something great at the plate,” he said. “It was incredible.”

Still, if Groz was voting, and knew that everyone else would be voting for Griffey, he would “maybe” hold back the vote.

“Saying it’s nothing against him, but if Hank Aaron didn’t (go in unanimously), no one should,” he said. “I could see standing behind that principle.”