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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Monday, February 27, 2012
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: February 27, 2012 at 01:24 PM (#4069617)After testing at a lab the superballs were found to actually be roids-double whammy for Sammy.
And that doesn't even get into the fraudulence and the pants-pooping.
At face value, though, Sosa belongs in both Halls. I wonder if some of the looking-askance he gets is due to the off-the-charts effect. Guy hit 60 home runs three times, come on, that can't really have happened :) His 5-year peak, though, is really extremely good.
BBREF WAR concurs.
Dwight Evans is an interesting comp. He was consistently better for longer than Sosa, but Sosa has the monstrous hitting peak that Dewey can't touch (1981-82 aside).
The steroids were only used to shrink the superballs so they'd fit in the bat barrel.
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