Alex Rodriguez hit his 599th career home run Thursday night in the bottom of the 7th inning against the Royals' reliever, Robinson Tejeda. A-Rod is just one big-fly away from joining the 600 home run club. At 32 years and 8 days old, A-Rod became the youngest baseball player to reach 500 home runs in a career. He will just be the 7th player to reach the 600 home run mark joining the ranks of: Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), and Sammy Sosa (609).
A-Rod is 34 years and 361 days old. He still has a few years left in the tank and the question remains, will A-Rod make a run at the all-time home run record currently held by Barry Bonds at 762. If A-Rod can stay healthy and play for at least 5 more years, he would need to hit at least 30+ home runs each season to have a legitimate shot at reaching the record.
And so we ask you, do you think A-Rod will break the record of 762?
As of July 22, 2010: Career Totals
Games: 2254
At Bats: 8642
Runs: 1732
Hits: 2624
2B: 469
3B: 29
HR: 599
RBI: 1784
TB: 4948
BB: 1099
SO: 1797
SB: 299
CS: 71
OBP: .388
SLG: .573
AVG: .304
I think he'll do it. I'm not an A-Rod fan. But I think he's gonna be the eventual record holder.
ReplyDeleteBy the way KShep... you'll notice the picture gets cut off in this post. If you choose "large" as the size for your pics they shouldn't get cut off. Just a heads up for future reference, this one doesn't even look bad cut off.
Hey, we may not like him but he will make it interesting as long as he can stay healthy and stay out of trouble for steroids.
ReplyDeleteMy bad on the pic though...thanks for the tip for next time, I will be sure to do that.
Here's some numbers to ponder, Bonds was 42 when he broke the record, that year he hit 28 home runs. Just 2 years before that he hit a whopping 5 dingers. A-Rod has had only 3 seasons where he has been under 30 home runs, his debut for Seattle in 94' where he had only 54 at bats, 95' where he had 5 home runs in 142 at bats, and 97' where he had 23 home runs... I put him around 28-32 home runs this season. We can expect at least 3-4 more solid seasons of 30+ home runs and at l-2 of those with close to 40 hr's. If A-Rod plays til he's 42, remains injury free, he's got a legitimate shot at breaking the record, possibly even reaching the unthinkable....dare I say it, 800 mark.
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