30 Home Runs Before All-Star Break
Associated Press | June 30, 2009
Since 1961
2009-Albert Pujols, St. Louis, 30
2007-Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees, 30
2006-David Ortiz, Boston, 31
2006-Jim Thome, Chicago White Sox, 30
2003-Barry Bonds, San Francisco, 30
2001-Barry Bonds, San Francisco, 39
2001-Luis Gonzalez, Arizona, 35
2000-Mark McGwire, St. Louis, 30
1999-Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs, 32
1999-Jose Canseco, Tampa Bay, 31
1998-Mark McGwire, St. Louis, 37
1998-Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle, 35
1998-Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs, 33
1998-Greg Vaughn, San Diego, 30
1997-Mark McGwire, Oakland, 31
1997-Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle, 30
1996-Brady Anderson, Baltimore, 30
1994-Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle 33
1994-Matt Williams, San Francisco, 33
1994-Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox, 32
1989-Kevin Mitchell, San Francisco, 31
1987-Mark McGwire, Oakland, 33
1976-Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia, 31
1976-Dave Kingman, New York Mets, 30
1973-Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh, 30
1971-Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh, 30
1969-Reggie Jackson, Oakland, 37
1969-Frank Howard, Washington, 34
1969-Willie McCovey, San Francisco, 30
1964-Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota, 30
1961-Roger Maris, New York Yankees, 33
Billy Hamilton's Legs (07-15-2013)
lol okay because before McGwire/Sosa went all nuts in 98 there had been TWO players in baseball history to hit 60 HRs and then Sosa went and did it 3 out of 4 years. And the top 6 single season HRs in baseball history happened by Bonds/McGwire/Sosa. Brady Anderson hit 50 as a 32 year old after never hitting more than 21. Bonds hitting 27 more HRs as a 36 year old than he ever had in his career.
Bonds hit .370 and .362 as a 37 and 39 year old. Had a 1.045 OPS as a 42 year old.
Totally overblown.
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He's on those Brady Anderson 1-year steroids
Hey, I'm just common folk. But I'm striving to be at the table someday when everything is revealed. Hopefully I'm deemed worthy. If not, I'll be OK.
Rounding third and heading for home...
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*BaseClogger* (07-01-2013)
Except that it isn't easily disproved. In fact, it strongly is correlated that in the mid 90's through 2005, offense was up among an all-time high in baseball.
Not by coincidence, since testing was implemented in 2006, the offense has gone away. Really not rocket science to figure out.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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A few bigger stadiums has opened up in the 2000's as well. Petco, Safeco, Busch, PNC Park, Target Field. That certainly adds a bit too it as well. Combine it with better pitching and teams being more defensive minded (leading to lesser hitting players) and we are seeing some of the ramifications. There are certainly some explanations for why offense is down and it isn't automatically "STEROIDS".
The error is starting the discussion with players like Sosa and McGwire and then moving towards trends across the entire league. Forget about the league, the stadiums and everything else. It isn't a coincidence that the guys breaking all the records have also been the same ones showing up in reports about using.
Three of the five places you mentioned have been open between 10 and 15 years. The decline in offense has primarily occurred the last five.
The bigger ballparks may have mitigated the explosion slightly, but it doesn't explain the clear downward trend since the implementation of testing.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
I enjoyed the first page of this thread where stats were used to show that Davis shouldn't automatically be a PED suspect. A question was respectfully raised, and reasonably answered as well as could be. No harm done. Of course things are headed in a wacky direction now...
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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