Does Big Mac belong in the Coop?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...s best season, his adjusted OPS was 157. McGwire topped that figure in six seasons. Until Barry Bonds decided to bulk up (ahem), McGwire really was the game's most feared hitter. When he...
Blog | December 02, 2009Is Broxton haunted by ghost?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotBoy, talk about your competing views about Jonathan Broxton's meltdown in Game 4. First, here's Los Angeles' Bill Plaschke: The crack of Jimmy Rolli...
Blog | October 20, 2009Giving Helton his due
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...only: Player Pos. BA/OBP/SLG Runs/RBI Jeff Kent 2B .333/.429/.624 61/65 Barry Bonds LF .291/.431/.633 65/48 Mike Piazza C .377/.459/.701 49/60 Jim Edmonds...
Blog | August 12, 2009Defending the intentional walk
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotNear the end of Wezenball's argument in favor of the intentional walk, he writes this: It is boring, though, and it does remove some of the excit...
Blog | July 22, 2009Bill James on steroids
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...the Hall of Fame, and Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa, and Rafael Palmeiro, and probably even Barry Bonds. I am not especially advocating this; I simply think that is the way it is. I...
Blog | July 22, 2009Steroid Era gets a little less fun
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...61-homers-in-a-season three times in his career (as many as Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds combined). Three times. I KNOW he hit 609 home runs in his career (man, 600 home...
Blog | June 17, 2009Our (preliminary) All-Decade Team
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...All-Aughts Team: 1B Albert Pujols 2B Jeff Kent SS Derek Jeter 3B Alex Rodriguez LF Barry Bonds CF Carlos Beltran RF Vladimir Guerrero Pujols has absolutely zero competition, and must be the easiest...
Blog | June 01, 2009Where's the joy in Unit's 300th?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...by Johnson's quest for 300 than I have been for any recent milestone save [Barry] Bonds' pursuit of the home run record. Part of it has to do with the fact...
Blog | May 28, 2009Barry Bonds: A-Rod in 10 years?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...then and his coach knew it -- an allegation the coach, Rich Hoffman, denied. The other night, Barry Bonds showed up for the Giants' home game against the Dodgers. In the broadcast booths, he...
Blog | April 30, 2009Zack Greinke: Cover boy!
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...39;s been 13 years for the Royals. My first guesses: the Brewers and the post-Barry Bonds Pirates. And the answers? Again courtesy of Posnanski, we find only two teams have gone longer...
Blog | April 28, 2009Living large in York, Pa.
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...messed up. He's going to get a walk immediately. I'd rather face Barry Bonds in the bottom of the ninth." This is a strategy that Gallagher, who is an...
Blog | April 22, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer...the stands and keeping score. • Dayn Perry makes the case against the case against Barry Bonds. • What's to become of Kevin Millwood? Adam Morris reminds us just how far...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 25, 2009Maybe money wasn't Manny's motivation
Rob Neyer...similar to any "top-tier player in his 20s," and that "Manny is akin to where Barry Bonds was" at a comparable age, adding "an argument can be made that Manny continues to get...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 10, 2009More former players need to address steroid issue
Rob Neyer...will only speed the process along. The toughest barrier that players such as Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds face is the sportswriters' bizarre notion that the players of the 1960s and '70s were pure...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 10, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer...eternal. • I don't know if the Nation's Dave Zirin is right about Barry Bonds, but any essay that finishes with The Old Man and the Sea is OK by me...
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