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

by TedFord on Jul 18, 2008 1:44 PM CDT

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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Sorry

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

There was the carry-on bag incident while he was in Cleveland

other than that, none that I know of.

by Taylor on Jul 18, 2008 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions

That incident was listed in the Mitchel Report

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by DerekSTheRed on Jul 18, 2008 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions

Didn't Tom Hicks pretty much say that Juan Gone was juiced and that's why he sucked when they brought him back?

by Inkara1 on Jul 18, 2008 4:04 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.

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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