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Bonds or Jones
| Barry Bonds | 10 votes |
| Andruw Jones | 0 votes |
| Other | 5 votes |
| No one | 1 votes |
| Elster88 Sep 15 2005 07:40 AM |
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Andruw Jones became the youngest player to reach 300 homers yesterday. That's a testament to the age at which he joined the league as much as his home run hitting prowess. Then again, 50 home runs is a pretty incredible season, it just seems like a lot less than it used to thanks to steroids, juiced balls, blah blah blah.
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| smg58 Sep 15 2005 07:43 AM |
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There's something about his output this season that seems a little too good to be true. Or maybe I'm just automatically suspicious of anybody who hits more than 30 these days.
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| Edgy MD Sep 15 2005 07:46 AM |
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Bonds, of course. There's just too much that can go wrong between 300 and 756.
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| cooby Sep 15 2005 07:46 AM |
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I voted other, as in BOTH
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| Elster88 Sep 15 2005 08:46 AM |
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They can't both be MORE likely. ;-)
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| sharpie Sep 15 2005 08:54 AM |
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Bonds. Andruw is having a helluva year but I don't see him duplicating it.
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| metirish Sep 15 2005 09:04 AM |
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Bonds in a romp, he could end up with over 800
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| seawolf17 Sep 15 2005 09:05 AM |
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I'm tempted to vote Jones. He's still a kid! Keep in mind, Hank Aaron never hit 50 in a season, and he got to 755 just fine. I think he'll keep getting better, which is scary.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 15 2005 09:12 AM |
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Jimmie Foxx ended the 1935 season with 302 HRs, then turned 28 several weeks later. Andruw hit #300 last night but turned 28 in April. At this point I suspect neither will reach 756. I thought Bonds would until he missed most of this year, although I'd still consider him more likely to reach it than Andruw. Too many things can go wrong between #300 & even #500/600 (see Griffey, Ken Jr.) not to mnetion 756. I also think Andruw might not be the type to "age well" although I've been wrong on that several times already with him.
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| Elster88 Sep 15 2005 10:15 AM |
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Huh. I didn't know this. I heard the soundbite from my TV while brushing my teeth this morning that Andruw was the youngest. _____________________________ This post had the designation 154) Tommy Davis
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| Edgy MD Sep 15 2005 10:20 AM |
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Jimmy Foxx is one of the most under-appreciated great players. He shares George Brett's curse of being alnost an exact contemporary of perhaps the greatest player to ever play his position.
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| seawolf17 Sep 15 2005 10:28 AM |
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That, of course, is Phil Garner.
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| Edgy MD Sep 15 2005 10:32 AM |
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What you probably heard was that he was the youngest Brave to accomplish the feat.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 15 2005 11:23 AM |
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ARod was also the youngest to 400 - and by a bigger margin IIRC.
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| metirish Sep 15 2005 01:10 PM |
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Listen to an Irish sports radio station in Dublin talking about Bonds,I think they are talking to a journo from the Chronicle.
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| metsmarathon Sep 15 2005 02:54 PM |
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i think what he meant was, of all the players to reach 300 home runs yesterday, andruw jones was the youngest.
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| Nymr83 Sep 15 2005 03:54 PM |
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gotta put Arod ahead of them both here.
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| MFS62 Sep 16 2005 11:43 AM |
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I voted "other" for A-Rod.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 16 2005 12:13 PM |
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As I related in another thread a presenter at SABR this summer showed data indicating those numbers have changed considerably since James did his calculation in the 1980s and peaks are starting later and lasting longer than they used to (due to training & other factors). Bill James sat there and watched! On the presenter's site are some funky charts showing some of the data he used. [url]http://www.visual-baseball.com/index.html
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| MFS62 Sep 16 2005 12:16 PM |
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Thanks for the update.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 16 2005 12:31 PM |
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