Thursday, June 21, 2007

Should We Get Excited about Sammy's 600?


Check out these homerun numbers.

Player Avg. Homeruns/Season

Sammy Sosa
1993-1996
and 2004-2005 ~29
1996-2003 ~51


Notes:
1997 36 Hr
1998 66 Hr
That's quite the increase! Sammy added over 35 pounds later in his career also.

Barry Bonds
1990-1999 ~36
2000-2003 ~52

Notes:
49 in 2000
73 in 2001
Barry added over 40 pounds of muscle after the age of 35?
Both his head size and shoe size increased during this time as well?

Mark McGwire
1987-1994* ~36
1995-2000 ~53
*1994 played 47 games

It's interesting to see these stats. More interesting is that major league baseball has nothing..no proof of anything...nobody has failed a steroid test? Come on!

Consider that there are only 20 players to hit 500 or more. 3 are still active and 5 will do it in 2007 alone! What do you think about that?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good research Zack! I don't see it as anything to get excited about.