The 50 HR mark has been reached 43 times by 27 different players BUT...... of those 43 times it was only good enough 12 times to capture the MVP with Jimmie Foxx being the only one to win it twice. Only 9 players have reached the 50 HR mark more then once & only Mark McGuire & Ralph Kiner NEVER won an MVP for there accomplishment.
Rick, what is the PED suspect breakdown of those 27 players. Can you post the list of the 27 and the years they hit 50+.
(These are the KNOWN users).................. Barry Bonds (73) 2001 Mark McGuire (70) 1998 Sammy Sosa (66) 1998 Mark McGuire (65) 1999 Sammy Sosa (64) 2001 Sammy Sosa (63) 1999 Mark McGuire (58) 1997 Luis Gonzales (57) 2001 A. Rodriquez (57) 2002 A. Rodriquez (54) 2007 David Ortiz (54) 2006 A. Rodriquez (52) 2001 Mark McGuire (52) 1996 Sammy Sosa (50) 2000 B. Anderson (50) 1996 ????????? = Ken Griffey jr. (56) 1997 Ken Griffey Jr. (56) 1998 Andruw Jones (51) 2005 Greg Vaughn (50) 1998 Albert Belle (50) 1995 I hope this is what you wanted
Vaughn....definitely PEDs. Belle as well given the career ending injury. Jones fell off the map, makes him likely too and we've discussed Junior as well.
What I find really amazing is that on that first list 8 of those 15 totals belong to Sosa & McGuire, and yet Bonds is the poster boy for steroids.
Others that reached the 50 HR mark that I believe did it legitimately simply because they are big guys are..... Jim Thome Cecil Fielder Prince Fielder Ryan Howard The last two that accomplished it, Jose Batista whose power seemed to come out of no where (2010) and last season Chris Davis I think at this point you just want to believe that they're clean.
This is true, and what I'm about to say doesn't really apply to Sosa or Bonds, but McGwire hit 49 his rookie year, or should I say at least his first full season??? Sosa hit 15 his first full season... Bonds hit 16 his first season... Just saying...
Why Howard, I know he's completely broken down the last two seasons but the guy is 6'4 & weighs 240 lbs.
Living in the philly market, I just hear things... nothing posted anywhere though.... I can see 40 or 45, maybe even 48/49, but over 50 let alone 58???
A while back I printed a list of players that have AVERAGED 40 Hrs over a 5 year period (200 or more HRs) There are 23 players in all. Howard had the 8th highest total 229 HRs between 2006-2010 that's an aver of almost 46 per year. NOTE: At least 10 of the players on the list have been connected to PEDs.
