Brad Lidge still has nightmares about him (even after the last WS)

as an outfielder, though, didn’t he?

He’s already top 8 and not even 30 years old yet. Its going to be fun seeing who has the better career in the end, him or A-Rod

Pujols…#3 right now and climbing.

and Pujols BR most similar list through age 29 makes me sad:

   1. Jimmie Foxx (887) *
   2. Hank Aaron (851) *
   3. Lou Gehrig (851) *
   4. Ken Griffey (842)
   5. Frank Robinson (834) *
   6. Mickey Mantle (820) *
7. Juan Gonzalez (795)
   8. Mel Ott (794) *
   9. Hank Greenberg (787) *
  10. Orlando Cepeda (774) *

missed (most of) ages 30-34 serving in a shooting war – a ‘great’ one. his first full season back he lead the league in home runs. he was thirty-five. i have no doubts that pujols is one of the greats, but remember that hank was a jackie robinson of sorts which is why i mention his greatness for many reasons. much like gehrig his legend extends far beyond the playing field.

when you don’t include greenburg and pujols

Yup.

You could have a legit discussion about where Bagwell, McGwire, Palmeiro, McCovey, Mize, etc all rank relative to one another. But the question “Is player X (from that list) better than Foxx?” is so obvious you wouldn’t even think to ask the question.

I think we’re talking Greenberg and Pujols, who are the only two guys who you could actually ask that question and not get laughed at. Obviously Greenberg’s career was too short, but if you give him the “if he hadn’t gone to war” treatment, like Ted Williams, maybe he would stack up similarly to Foxx. And Pujols is in the middle of his career, in four years he may well be easily #2. But he may still decline; Foxx’s numbers include his tail.

Seriously?

below bench, berra, pizza, fisk, berra, and pudge

above matt nokes, tettleton, veretek

McLaughlin Group style.

“You’re all WRONG! The correct answer is…”

how about that question. What are/were your favorite batting stances to mimic? Julio Franco had to be the easiest or most unique

It’s obviously Hank F. He saved the Rangers from a huge slide when Jonny Donuts finally realized that Davis wasn’t cut out for The Show.

When I first started getting into baseball my uncle and grandfather were watching a game. McCovey was coming up with the bases loaded and all these fans gathered in a lttle area past the right field fence waiting for a McCovey home run. . . . he hit it right in the middle of them.

At that point I thought McCovey was god and that he would hit a home run every time up.

No.

Teixeira is going to be in the mix when he’s done too. Between the bat and the glove, he has to be considered at some point.

/Norm

with him being pretty high, but I think Pujols supplants him barring catastrophic injury in a year or two.

And, unlike, say, Barry Bonds, I don’t know if he would have been great anyway.

I always liked him, and this made me go back and look at his stats. He was better than I ever realized. Consistently top 10 in OBP and SLG, high batter avg and solid hr numbers.

I still remember going to houston to see the series vs the giants in 1994 right before the strike ended the season, I thought for sure williams or him would have broken that HR record that season if it hadn’t ended so early.

The one thing I always remember about Bagwell is that whacky batting stance

No question.