re: Who had the best peak between A-Rod, Bond and Griffey Jr

Who else used to use the cheat code "Keegan Patterson" on EA Sports MVP Baseball 2004 to get the guy who hit bombs on every AB? Even if you bunted it would go out.

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He may very well have eclipsed 700 homers had he not missed major parts of 5 seasons.

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he absolutely would have. Griffey finished his career with 630 home runs. He fell victim to a strike shortened 1994 season where he had 40 home runs in 111 games. He missed 90 games in 1995 with a broken wrist. He missed about 20 games in 1996 with a broken hand. He played in only 206 games out of a possible 486 from 2002-2004. He then missed another 53 games in 2006. I mean you're talking about 576 games from 1994-2006. Most of those were during prime. That's over 3 1/2 seasons worth of games, right in his prime. Even at 37 years old in 2007, he was able to hit 30 home runs in 144 games with Cincinnati. When he was missing these huge chunks of seasons, he was still hitting a clip of 40+ Home runs a year. He likely would have broken Hank Aaron's record had he remained healthy. But I guess that is part of breaking records like that.

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Bonds from 2001-2004 was numbers too unrealistic for a video game.

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Yeah, Bonds in his PED-prime is the best hitter in the history of baseball.

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yep, completely natural for someone to peak at age 36

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Point is, nobody else in the world could do that, no matter what combination of PEDs you give them.

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Griffey went for 56 twice without PEDs. Bonds career high without was 46. Bonds was an all time great without PEDs but no way he remotely approaches those numbers playing clean. If he couldn't hit 50 in his prime without PEDs, lol at him doing anything remotely similar at 36-39

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Yeah, but he was OBPing .450+ and OPSing 1.000+ without PEDs. And stealing bases. And winning gold gloves. He was an incredible player. The best in baseball. But he couldn't handle playing second fiddle to the McGwire/Sosa freak show. It's a tragic story, really. Bonds on PEDs was barely human.

My bad I conflated them I guess.

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Bonds is the GOAT.

Griffey while amazing is not quite on the level of A-Rod

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pretty much this

Is no one drawing a line in this thread?

Is this just who is the best Lance Armstrong thread?

So much admiration for East Germans in this thread. He was the best, blah, blah, blah..

So we're the Germans.

Germans

Before Janet Evans.

I don't know if Griffy never did drugs but as a kid, as both were kids before Bonds got all puffy...

Griffey was way better than Bonds at their youngest most natural self.

Griffey was Mr. Video game, Bonds was toiling in some obscurity and he said as much and what spurred him to take PEDs.

I haven't seen the floater pitch since Scruffy McGee