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Juan Gonzalez, '98 vis a vis Josh Hamilton, '08

My son thought it would be a good idea to compare the hitting stats of Juan Gonzalez during his noteworthy year of 1998 to those of resident beasticon, Josh Hamilton, through July 17 of their respective years.  What he found was remarkable similarity...

Thru 7/17 of respective year      G   PA  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI BB SB   BA  OBP  SLG OPS
  96 420 384  64 113 28  1   26 101  24    1  .294  .336  .576  .912 Gonzalez
  93 425 377  60 117 22  3   21 095  37    7  .310  .367  .552  .919 Hamilton

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I tried to get the column headings directly over the numbers but failed miserably.

II Cor. 4:17-18

by TedFord on Jul 18, 2008 1:48 PM CDT reply actions  

Juan Gone makes me sad

He should have been a hall of famer. His stats in the late ‘90s were special.

by JBImaknee on Jul 18, 2008 2:07 PM CDT reply actions  

Juan Gonzalez

Are there any steroid allegations surrounding him? His numbers early in his career were amazing, but the dropoff in his play and the rash of injuries, its a plausible conclusion. However, I haven’t heard as many rumors surrounding him as, for instance, Pudge Rodriguez.

baseBALLIN!

by kevzta on Jul 18, 2008 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions  

Jose Canseco

says that pretty much every ranger in the early ‘90s was juiced. But he’s not exactly the most reliable witness…

by JBImaknee on Jul 18, 2008 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions  

Yeah

He said bringing JuanGon back the second time around when he didn’t do steroids was a bad idea.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Jul 19, 2008 4:44 PM CDT up reply actions  

Roids were the thing to do....

in the early 90s, so yes he likely was on them, but most of the power guys were league wide in those days, and that could be why he burned out so quickly, if he could have played 15 years or so, he would have had some major numbers.

by TRFAN on Jul 18, 2008 2:24 PM CDT reply actions  

Roids

players in baseball and football have been doing that since the early 70s…

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 18, 2008 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions  

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