Oakland A's OF Josh Reddick changes his walk-up song to Careless Whisper by Wham, and RP Sean Doolittle rocks out to it
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It's early and he's still on pace to hit 31 (his pace at this point last year was 47) so not really a big deal as 31 is still pretty damn good.
I don't follow baseball much so am I missing the story here? Are there steroid allegations or something?
Nope, just the fact that he started off this slow last year too.Originally Posted by steelerfan
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Gotcha.
There were questions last year about possible steroids, as he had never hit many home runs and then explodes for 53 last year seemingly out of nowhere.
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Ok, I kinda figured.
Yeah, just looking at his stats now. His first two years, 2008 (295 AB) and 2009 (391 AB) with Texas, he hit 17 and 21 home runs. 2010 with Texas (120 AB) he hit just one single home run.
2011 with both Texas and Baltimore, a combined 199 AB, he hit a total of 5 home runs for the season. 2012 with Baltimore (515 AB) he hit 33 home runs and then last year with Baltimore (584 AB), he exploded for 53 home runs.
Now, actually looking at he numbers for at bats and games played, actually playing full seasons and increasing the number of at bats since arriving in Baltimore, some increased numbers of home runs makes sense. But to go from hitting just 6 total home runs for 2010 and 2011 combined, to hitting 33 and 53 the last two years, when his career high before that had been 21 back in 2009, it had a lot of people asking about the possibility of him taking steroids to suddenly come out of nowhere like that in home run numbers.
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He's no Brady Anderson though
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Very old article that is not fact-based but interesting nonetheless.
http://baseballevolution.com/asher/b...onspiracy.html
It tries to connect ALL of the steroid dots back to Jeff Bagwell, lol. Of course, he's largely stayed off the steroid radar but I have always told my buddies that he MUST have been juicing with as big as he got.
Wtf is with the Astros? 5 straight wins. Springer hit another one out today.
He's legit.
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Springer hit his 7th HR in 7 games and the Astros won their 6th straight. Wow.
RIP Tony Gwynn....
Nolan Ryan struck Tony Gwynn out 9 times. No one else struck him out more than 6 times.
— Paul Severino (@SeverinoMLB) June 16, 2014
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Astros-
the young guys are learning how to play but its a long season and they could still lose 2/3rds of their games as expected
Cool pic....
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My ASG Ballot:
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Astros are doing a rebuild project the right way. Build through the draft and youth and key the payroll LOW while you are losing/rebuilding so you can spend that extra $ later when you eventually become a playoff team/contender.
They are. And it looks like it's paying off. I've never had a problem with their plan, I just feared it being executed poorly. Screw up the draft and you spend 2 decades in hell, like the Pirates.
Glad it's working out and they are, at least, fun to watch again.
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