Bonds                               Pujols 

It’s an OFF DAY!                                                                                                               

People are up in arms about Bonds breaking the home run record. Bonds probably has beaten up his girlfriend that he had when he cheated on his wife, may have an income tax evasion and might have used performance enhancing drugs.  But a record 756 home runs probably isn’t going to last much longer than 8 to 10 years. Why? Let’s look at the potential record breakers.

*chart from baseball evolution*

First Last Age G AB HR Seas. 756 Age
Barry Bonds 42 2860 9507 734 1 43
Sammy Sosa 38 2240 8401 588 4 42
Ken Griffey Jr. 37 2234 8298 563 5 42
Jim Thome 36 1881 6409 472 7 43
Manny Ramirez 35 1817 6575 470 7 42
Alex Rodriguez 31 1746 6767 464 7 38
Chipper Jones 35 1761 6385 357 12 47
Jim Edmonds 37 1697 5907 350 12 49
Jason Giambi 36 1622 5620 350 12 48
Andruw Jones 30 1616 5869 344 12 42
Vlad Guerrero 31 1457 5502 338 11 42
Todd Helton 33 1424 5106 286 14 47
Troy Glaus 30 1129 4040 257 14 44
Albert Pujols 27 933 3489 250 12 39
David Ortiz 31 1043 3666 231 15 46
Lance Berkman 31 1059 3687 225 15 46
Adam Dunn 27 821 2832 198 14 41
Miguel Cabrera 24 563 2106 108 21 45
Ryan Howard 27 266 932 83 13 40

19 players in range to reach 756 homeruns at any point is remarkable, period. Some of these players are past their prime  and will not reach the coveted number (Edmonds, Sosa, Giambi). Others have a legitimate shot at this.  Albert Pujols, Adam Dunn, and Ryan Howard are each currentlty set to hit roughly 800 homeruns before their careers are through. Remember, Juan Gonzalez hit his 400th homerun at the age of 32 – one of the youngest ever to do so – never played another full season, and ended his career with 434 homeruns.
But if things continue as they currently project, in 15 years there will be four or five players to have crossed the 756 home run threshold, and this animosity towards Bonds will fade away.

Oh, did I also mention I think Bonds is a jerk!

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By: motle on Apr 23rd, 2007
Tagged as: MLB Banter

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