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He doesn't have a hit yet, but Giambi has looked good at the plate. He's looked excellent (for him) in the field too, his error was as much Mussina's fault as it was his.
Thanks, CP. The odds are obviously against him- but if he found a way to work out for the first time, maybe it can work for him. I'd be inclined not to wear him down, and look for say, 80-90 games at 1B, with Betemit/Duncan splitting the rest.
So curious to see him there for a month straight, and see if this mobility continues, and what his UZR is like. He really seems like he's moving better than at any point in his career- not many 37-year-olds you can say that about.
I think that's exactly right, great shape or not, he's still on the older side for a ballplayer and with those two, Betemit especially, you want to get them some time to see how much they can contribute down the line.
I fear that this is going to be an all-purpose explanation for much of the Yanks' woes this year.
Translation: Kevin is still grasping at the HGH straw even though it's been shown to be useless for performance enhancement.
Kevin thinks "How can Giambi still be hitting HR's at close to his career averages after steroid testing, he must be on some substance because it's obvious he was a steroid built mirage! How can the league still be hitting HRs at near record levels without steroids? It has to be HGH?"
It may help some players, no? I don't think any study has conclusively demonstrated HGH helps no one.
That is, of course, real evidence in regard to HGH, but if that's all you're referring to, it's misrepresenting the science to say that HGH has been "shown to be useless".
The results from HGH, if any, are so weak you need to fall back on "statistical significant effects" so you can mealy mouth there might be some tiny effect. A tiny effect can't explain robust post testing home run rates. A tiny effect can't set up Giambi for a "big year".
It certainly is true that we need to be careful in ascribing effects to HGH that are not proven, and there is nothing in kevin's posting style that approaches to carefulness.
But I think that we need to be appropriately careful likewise in ascribing non-effects to HGH that are similarly unproven. There have been no studies of ballplayers, there have been no (and will be no) double-blinded, controlled studies of the effects on HGH on ballplayers. I haven't looked into the precise set of studies which were evaluated in that one meta-study, and I don't know what they searched for or how homogenous they were, and I don't know what other studies have been done since. If you do know, and your confidence comes from such knowledge, I would love to learn, and I'd be interested to see your citations.
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