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Congratulations to Ken Griffey, Jr. who hit his 600th home run last night against the Florida Marlins in Florida. It really is a damn shame that Griffey Jr. hit his 600th home run in Florida in front of a crowd of only 16,003 people.
Griffey, Jr. is quite simply one of the greatest baseball players of all time and it is an incredible feat that he has reached 600 home runs. Let us not forget that in this age of steroids and performance enhancing drugs, Griffey Jr. is still ONLY the 6th player in the history of baseball to reach 600 home runs.
By all accounts, Griffey Jr. is probably only the 4th baseball player to hit 600 home runs while being clean of performance enhancing drugs. Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa both reached the 600 home run plateau but most certainly had some help while getting there. Sosa probably wouldn't have sniffed 500 home runs without his "Flintstones vitamins" and it is unclear how many home runs Barry Bonds would have hit without his "cream and clear." My guess is that Barry still would have reached 600 and we would be debating whether Bonds or Griffey was the greatest hitter of their generation. Any way you look at it, Griffey's accomplishment deserves to be celebrated to the highest degree.
Griffey has had a great career to this point and right now his career stat line looks like this:
.289, 600 HR, 1730 RBI, 184 SB, .374 OBP, .550 SLG, and 139 OPS+.
Those are some pretty impressive numbers and here is where he ranks all time:
6th all-time in HR
19th all-time in RBI
18th all-time in total bases
28th all-time in SLG
78th all-time in OPS+
12th all-time in extra base hits
Griffey has done all this despite missing around 350 games over the past 7 years. That's a little more than two full seasons and had he been healthy, he may have been knocking on the door of 700 right now instead of 600. Griffey also has an MVP under his belt, 13 All-Star appearances, and 10 Gold Gloves. Griffey certainly deserves to be celebrated and we can only hope that his phenomenal performance does not get lost in the shuffle of the steroids era.
Here is the video of Ken Griffey Jr's 600th Home Run:
Griffey, Jr. is quite simply one of the greatest baseball players of all time and it is an incredible feat that he has reached 600 home runs. Let us not forget that in this age of steroids and performance enhancing drugs, Griffey Jr. is still ONLY the 6th player in the history of baseball to reach 600 home runs.
By all accounts, Griffey Jr. is probably only the 4th baseball player to hit 600 home runs while being clean of performance enhancing drugs. Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa both reached the 600 home run plateau but most certainly had some help while getting there. Sosa probably wouldn't have sniffed 500 home runs without his "Flintstones vitamins" and it is unclear how many home runs Barry Bonds would have hit without his "cream and clear." My guess is that Barry still would have reached 600 and we would be debating whether Bonds or Griffey was the greatest hitter of their generation. Any way you look at it, Griffey's accomplishment deserves to be celebrated to the highest degree.
Griffey has had a great career to this point and right now his career stat line looks like this:
.289, 600 HR, 1730 RBI, 184 SB, .374 OBP, .550 SLG, and 139 OPS+.
Those are some pretty impressive numbers and here is where he ranks all time:
6th all-time in HR
19th all-time in RBI
18th all-time in total bases
28th all-time in SLG
78th all-time in OPS+
12th all-time in extra base hits
Griffey has done all this despite missing around 350 games over the past 7 years. That's a little more than two full seasons and had he been healthy, he may have been knocking on the door of 700 right now instead of 600. Griffey also has an MVP under his belt, 13 All-Star appearances, and 10 Gold Gloves. Griffey certainly deserves to be celebrated and we can only hope that his phenomenal performance does not get lost in the shuffle of the steroids era.
Here is the video of Ken Griffey Jr's 600th Home Run:
Looks like we got similar taste, nice writeup on Griffey. Feel free to check mine out.
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