My good pal Frank wants to shut the doors of the HOF to ...
2006-11-26 09:12
by Bob Timmermann
At a card show in Cincinnati, Frank Robinson agreed with a writer from the Cincinnati Enquirer that Mark McGwire wouldn't get a vote for the Hall of Fame.
Robinson was his usual cranky self and opined that steroids gave players better eyesight in addition to making their muscles larger.
well, i'm no PED expert, but doesn't HGH enhance vision? the article implies that he was talking about steriods, but in context it sounds like he was discussing PEDs more broadly. and really i wouldn't expect an old baseball guy like frank to be putting too fine a point on something like this. it's broad strokes.
Who had the better career - Mark McGwire or Juan Gonzalez?
. .McGwire Gonzalez
G 1874 . . 1689
AB 6187 . . 6556
TB 3639 . . 3676
BB 1317 . . 457
R 1167 . . 1061
BI 1414 . . 1404
2B 252 . . 388
HR 583 . . 434
BA .263 . .295
OB .394 . .343
MVP 0 . . . 2
Does Juan Gone belong in the Hall of Fame? If you add Runs + RBI McGwire was good for .843 per game while Gonzalez was good for .867 per game. The monster home run total by McGwire was sure impressive but his (lack of) testimony before Congress was not. McGwire's consistently huge walk numbers came with his first 50 HR season in '96, not before. Hall of Fame voters are going to have a hard time with the steroid era guys. I think Albert Belle was a better player than either of these guys in his prime but he doesn't get a sniff by HoF voters.
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. .McGwire Gonzalez
G 1874 . . 1689
AB 6187 . . 6556
TB 3639 . . 3676
BB 1317 . . 457
R 1167 . . 1061
BI 1414 . . 1404
2B 252 . . 388
HR 583 . . 434
BA .263 . .295
OB .394 . .343
MVP 0 . . . 2
Does Juan Gone belong in the Hall of Fame? If you add Runs + RBI McGwire was good for .843 per game while Gonzalez was good for .867 per game. The monster home run total by McGwire was sure impressive but his (lack of) testimony before Congress was not. McGwire's consistently huge walk numbers came with his first 50 HR season in '96, not before. Hall of Fame voters are going to have a hard time with the steroid era guys. I think Albert Belle was a better player than either of these guys in his prime but he doesn't get a sniff by HoF voters.
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