I’m in for a fantasy league, traditional 5x5 would be cool, Yahoo’s worked fine for me in the past. I don’t have time to be commissioner, but I’d definitely join the league, as long as I can make the live draft time (assuming there is one).
If Thomas says he didn’t use, I believe him. The main guys though, between Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Giambi and Caminiti, we’ve got 7 MVP Awards (not counting Bonds first 3) and the 6 highest single season HR marks in history. I think Sosa could have gotten bigger naturally. Hank Aaron was listed as 6-0 180 but was probably 205 later in his career and had his best home run percentages later on.
I think Vlad has to be clean. I think A-Rod is too just because he always put so much into his off-season program.
another thing that will cloud the issue is that a lot of teams and players truly discovered weight training in the mid 90s. Who knows how much came from teams finally realizing that weights are not bad?
It’s just, we never heard anything about Bond’s great new weight training program.
I’d be interested BTW to see if anyone can find out if Bobby Bonds got bigger naturally later in his career. A lot of people do hit a second growth spurt.
Bonds juiced-OK. In his case, the real problem was that he just happened to be already so good that once his deep flyes stopped getting caught he became almost invincible-but if he’d just read T-mag earlier in his career who knows?
One stat though-the most distinctive stat of Bonds career is that the percentage of balls he hit in the air has risen a lot. In the early 90s, he tried to hit line drives and 60%+ of his contacts were ground balls/Line drives. Now 65% are fly balls.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
The Big Hurt is adamant about being clean. I believe him.[/quote]