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Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Chamillitary Click:
quite an accomplishment, we just have to hope he's clean.
shame he is already 30, he might have had a chance at some records; fuckin' Jim Thome. :P
Twentytwofifty:
Gonna hit an ungodly 800 SOs soon too. :-X
Chamillitary Click:
^that's something i can live with as a coach, even though it's tough.
you can't say he hurts the team too much because they won the WS last year. :P
Twentytwofifty:
I wonder what the breaking point is with these strike out guys nowadays. Would he still be playing if he only hit 30 HRs a year and struck out 200 times? It seems to be more acceptable to put up ridiculous strike out numbers nowadays.
The old record for strike outs in a season was 189 by Bobby Bonds in 1970 and since 2004 that's been topped 6 times and there will be a few more this year. Reynolds, Howard, Dunn, Pena and Davis all have over 100 Ks so far and Upton has 99 in 81 games.
Chamillitary Click:
well Howard & Pena are the guys who hit the long ball, that's almost their job on the team.
but i would think if Howard wanted to bat .290 & strike out a lot less, i'm sure he could; but he just puts everything he's got into every swing.
but if he swung with 2 strikes as a defensive hitter, he would only hit around 30 HR's a season.
so i am sure Phillies coaching is telling him, don't worry about striking out; just make sure you hit 45 HR's for us lol.
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