Griffey Jr. is a moron and is less and less deserving of the HOF each and every year!!
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Reds outfielder Griffey breaks his left hand
Fri Dec 22, 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cincinnati Reds center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. broke his left hand during an accident at his Florida home, the National League baseball club said Friday.
The 18-year veteran's hand was placed in a hard cast and he will next be examined in three weeks, the Reds said, according to mlb.com.
"We'll know more then," Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said when asked if Griffey would be fit in time for the start of training in February.
The club did not reveal details of how the 12-times All-Star was injured.
In 109 games last season, Griffey batted .252 with 27 home runs and 72 RBIs. His 563 career home runs tie him with Reggie Jackson for 10th on the all-time home run list.
Griffey, 37, has been plagued by injuries since he joined the Reds before the 2000 season. He played 145 games that year but has not come close to that mark since.
Last season, a strained tendon in his right knee in April put Griffey on the disabled list for a month. A dislocated right toe suffered September 4 while trying to climb the outfield fence to make a catch limited him to just two pinch-hit at-bats over Cincinnati's last 24 games.
Fri Dec 22, 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cincinnati Reds center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. broke his left hand during an accident at his Florida home, the National League baseball club said Friday.
The 18-year veteran's hand was placed in a hard cast and he will next be examined in three weeks, the Reds said, according to mlb.com.
"We'll know more then," Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said when asked if Griffey would be fit in time for the start of training in February.
The club did not reveal details of how the 12-times All-Star was injured.
In 109 games last season, Griffey batted .252 with 27 home runs and 72 RBIs. His 563 career home runs tie him with Reggie Jackson for 10th on the all-time home run list.
Griffey, 37, has been plagued by injuries since he joined the Reds before the 2000 season. He played 145 games that year but has not come close to that mark since.
Last season, a strained tendon in his right knee in April put Griffey on the disabled list for a month. A dislocated right toe suffered September 4 while trying to climb the outfield fence to make a catch limited him to just two pinch-hit at-bats over Cincinnati's last 24 games.
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<< <i>Well why dont we find out what really happened before we call him a moron. >>
you are right. moron is harsh, but come on. He has been injured in about 50 different possible ways in the past 6 years.
It is just freaking rediculous how sad this once promising career has crashed.
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<< <i>Well why dont we find out what really happened before we call him a moron. >>
you are right. moron is harsh, but come on. He has been injured in about 50 different possible ways in the past 6 years.
It is just freaking rediculous how sad this once promising career has crashed. >>
I dont disagree at all, it is absolutley ridiculas but its not like he is a wimp or anything. Funny, one of my good friends Joe works with me in a prison and this kid gets injured every time he has hands on with an inmate, for instance.... torn shoulder # 1, torn shoulder # 2, Shoulder injury # 3 again ( 5 screws inserted this time ), broken finger, broken bone in hand.... He will be there everytime on time for you, he has the heart of a lion but he just breaks easy, his nick-name is Joe-Glass. Loooks like Griffey is in Fragile Fred (Taylor) Lavar (injury) Arrington, Courtney (injury) Brown, and my buddy Joey Glass's company
I just don't think you can discredit a guy's career accomplishments because of injuries suffered in his twilight. To say that he is less deserving of the Hall is, no offense, absolutely ridiculous. Going by your logic, every 'moron' that missed significant amounts of time in his older years should be pulled from the HOF. Guys like stupid Tony Gwynn, and dummy Andre Dawson, and of course there's idiotface Mickey Mantle, all missed significant time due to injuries. Does that mean that they are less deserving of praise?
PS - I'm only joking with the sarcastic name calling, not trying to be a dik.
Edited because I left out a word in the first sentence that totally changed my argument.
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The last several years he's contributed very little, relative to the original expectations.
Inconsistency and mediocrity are not H-O-F characteristics.
(Sorry about the spelling)
Cincy overpaid for his services and he is just a shell of his former greatness.
<< <i>Won't get a lot of writers votes first time around, especially in Ohio.
The last several years he's contributed very little, relative to the original expectations.
Inconsistency and mediocrity are not H-O-F characteristics. >>
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<< <i>Won't get a lot of writers votes first time around, especially in Ohio.
The last several years he's contributed very little, relative to the original expectations.
Inconsistency and mediocrity are not H-O-F characteristics. >>
What's mediocre about ranking in the top 10 in all-time home runs?
and was his only real trick. sure he hit a lot of long balls, years ago
but heck, that is not really novel anymore. everyone and their brother
that plays ball these days are smacking home runs.
the ones that deserve the hall are the ones that are CONSISTANT
through out a WHOLE CAREER and not constantly on the bench because they
have bones made of glass.
at some point numbers dont make all the difference. there has to be something
else to point to besides hitting a lot early.
Definitions of flash in the pan: Someone who enjoys transient success but then fails in the end.
The term flash in the pan is taken to mean a transient happening which results in no long-term success.
It comes from the age of flintlock guns, where the main charge was intended to be fired by a small charge of gunpowder in the priming pan. If the resultant fire did not pass through the touch-hole and ignite the main charge, it was a "flash in the pan".
I am having a hard time going along with your points because you are implying that just because he has a history of injuries, his talents are negated. I have heard several times about how hard he works in the offseason to try and stay healthy and his body just keeps breaking down. If he truly does work as hard as they say he does, then he cannot be held liable for the body he was given. It is out of his control. Just like it was out of Lou Gehrig's control when he got sick. For that matter, was Mickey Mantle any less talented because he notoriously abused his body to the point that it killed him? Should he be removed from the Hall because he could have hit 700 home runs, but "only" hit 536?
It takes nothing away from his talents and his accomplishments on the field. He is a class act, was the best player in the game from about 93-99, and is still considered one of the best when healthy. It is unfortunate that we will never know what he really could have accomplished, but I don't think it takes away from what he DID accomplish.
Wow.
How do you figure?
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<< <i>Griffey is a LOCK for the HOF on the first ballot. Anyone who thinks otherwise is totally clueless. Case closed. >>
I never actually said he was not going to get INTO the hall, I just said he is less and less deserving because about half his career is a pathetic injury prone debacle.
now, the case is closed.
Obviously, you have a strong opinion about Griffey, so I'm not going to try to change that, but the fact of the matter is that Griffey is a first ballot HOFer and will be rightfully inducted into Cooperstown on the first try, so I wouldn't say most of the baseball world shares your opinion, thankfully.
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CINCINNATI -- Ken Griffey Jr.'s broken left hand should be fully healed before the Cincinnati Reds start spring training next month, his agent said Tuesday.
Griffey broke his throwing hand in an accident at home last month and had it placed in a hard cast. X-rays over the weekend indicated that it was healing as expected. He will be examined again in about 10 days.
"From our conversations from the medical people, we don't expect it to linger into even the beginning of spring training," agent Brian Goldberg said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
The Reds open spring training in Sarasota, Fla., on Feb. 17. The voluntary reporting date for position players is Feb. 21.
Details of the accident and the injury have been kept private, at Griffey's request. The outfielder wants to wait until he reports for spring training to discuss what happened.
"It's all just respecting Junior's request to tell all of the local media at the same time what happened when he gets to spring training," Goldberg said.
The 37-year-old Griffey has become more reluctant to talk about injuries over the years. Since he came to his hometown team in a trade before the 2000 season, he has spent a lot of time overcoming injuries.
Griffey has been on the disabled list eight times since 2000. Last year, he missed nearly a month early in the season because of swelling behind his right knee. He sat out 22 of the last 24 games after dislocating a toe.
Overall, he hit .252 with 27 homers and 72 RBI in 109 games, his fourth-highest total with the Reds. He finished the season with 563 homers, tying Reggie Jackson for 10th place on the career list. His 1,608 RBI rank 22nd on the career list, which goes back to 1920 when it became an official statistic.
The various injuries -- torn hamstrings, torn knee tendon, dislocated shoulder, torn ankle tendon, dislocated toe -- severely diminished his playing time and his ranking as one of the game's top players.
For three years in a row, Griffey didn't play in more than 83 games in a season. He finally played a full season in 2005, when he won the NL comeback player award for hitting .301 with 35 homers in 128 games.
Griffey has two seasons left on the $116.5 million, nine-year contract he signed when he came to Cincinnati. He will get $12.5 million each of the next two seasons, with $6.5 million deferred each year. There's an option for 2009 at $16.5 million, with a $4 million buyout.
<< <i>Reds outfielder Griffey breaks his left hand
Fri Dec 22, 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cincinnati Reds center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. broke his left hand during an accident at his Florida home, the National League baseball club said Friday.
The 18-year veteran's hand was placed in a hard cast and he will next be examined in three weeks, the Reds said, according to mlb.com.
"We'll know more then," Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said when asked if Griffey would be fit in time for the start of training in February.
The club did not reveal details of how the 12-times All-Star was injured.z
In 109 games last season, Griffey batted .252 with 27 home runs and 72 RBIs. His 563 career home runs tie him with Reggie Jackson for 10th on the all-time home run list.
Griffey, 37, has been plagued by injuries since he joined the Reds before the 2000 season. He played 145 games that year but has not come close to that mark since.
Last season, a strained tendon in his right knee in April put Griffey on the disabled list for a month. A dislocated right toe suffered September 4 while trying to climb the outfield fence to make a catch limited him to just two pinch-hit at-bats over Cincinnati's last 24 games. >>
And if we knew THEN, what we know NOW... how good do those seasons look where he was belting 50+ HR's (winning gold gloves, batting .300) and coming in second or third in HR's to Lou Ferigno and Lee Haney?
He would certainly look like he did earlier in his career - like a once-in-a-generation player and an All Time Great!
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