A-rod youngest in the 500 HR club

Leiascards

Congrats to him and just think in 5 or 6 more years we may be seeing him knocking Bonds off the top.

Estil

So already at 32 he's now offically a future HOFer. Congrats to A-Rod and his soon to be even bigger paychecks.

rube26105

i cant wait, barring no injuries like griffey,cross fingers!( he would have already been at leat 100 closer to bonds now,but there was a couple of years there he was always hurt,was out all season that one year)a-rod will be youngest to 600- then 700-hes 1 year younger than my son!!!!awesome player, hen just needs to get over this 500 hump, im sure its working on his mind, same as bods trying to get 755, they are swinging for homers, not singles!
randy

BunchOBull

It's great to see A-Rod hit the milestone. It is terrible that both Griffey and Frank Thomas have suffered so many injuries. Both men played ball the right way and both have had tons of HR hitting time knocked off of their careers due to injuries. Frank says he wants 600, we will see what he does next year. But at 503(?) it's slowing down a lot. He's picked up pace before though.

EagleEyeKid

Good for A-Rod. If he stays healthy the rest of the way to 40 ......800+ homers?
With all the talk of Bonds, I look at Griffey and how he lost the equivalent of 5 years
due to injuries.....let's say on the avg. of 40 homers per year, that's another 200 missed.
Bonds would be chasing Griffey right now.....bummer.

cohocorp

yea, arod is not too bad. congrats to him.

jmbkb4

<< <i>It's great to see A-Rod hit the milestone. It is terrible that both Griffey and Frank Thomas have suffered so many injuries. Both men played ball the right way and both have had tons of HR hitting time knocked off of their careers due to injuries. Frank says he wants 600, we will see what he does next year. But at 503(?) it's slowing down a lot. He's picked up pace before though. >>

grote15

With all the talk of Bonds, I look at Griffey and how he lost the equivalent of 5 years
due to injuries...

I'm a big Griffey fan, and no doubt that he's lost a lot of time due to injury, but if you look at the numbersw he's actually only missed about the equivalent of 2 full seasons, not 5.

TNTonPMS

Yea Maaaaaaan !
I just wish I was the one A-Rod wanted to negotiate with about getting that 500th Hr ball back from . . .

I'd say , Lifetime behind home plate tix at the New Yankee Stadium and 2 Mil in CASH !

What ? No deal ? OK, Time to go play some catch in the back yard with the dog . . .

Seeeeee ya !

EagleEyeKid

I'm a big Griffey fan, and no doubt that he's lost a lot of time due to injury, but if you look at the numbersw he's actually only missed about the equivalent of 2 full seasons, not 5.

GP
1989 Seattle Mariners 127 455 61 120 23 0 16 61 191 44 83 16 7 .329 .420 .264
1990 Seattle Mariners 155 597 91 179 28 7 22 80 287 63 81 16 11 .366 .481 .300
1991 Seattle Mariners 154 548 76 179 42 1 22 100 289 71 82 18 6 .399 .527 .327
1992 Seattle Mariners 142 565 83 174 39 4 27 103 302 44 67 10 5 .361 .535 .308
1993 Seattle Mariners 156 582 113 180 38 3 45 109 359 96 91 17 9 .408 .617 .309
1994 Seattle Mariners 111 433 94 140 24 4 40 90 292 56 73 11 3 .402 .674 .323
1995 Seattle Mariners 72 260 52 67 7 0 17 42 125 52 53 4 2 .379 .481 .258
1996 Seattle Mariners 140 545 125 165 26 2 49 140 342 78 104 16 1 .392 .628 .303
1997 Seattle Mariners 157 608 125 185 34 3 56 147 393 76 121 15 4 .382 .646 .304
1998 Seattle Mariners 161 633 120 180 33 3 56 146 387 76 121 20 5 .365 .611 .284
1999 Seattle Mariners 160 606 123 173 26 3 48 134 349 91 108 24 7 .384 .576 .285
2000 Cincinnati Reds 145 520 100 141 22 3 40 118 289 94 117 6 4 .387 .556 .271
2001 Cincinnati Reds 111 364 57 104 20 2 22 65 194 44 72 2 0 .365 .533 .286
2002 Cincinnati Reds 70 197 17 52 8 0 8 23 84 28 39 1 2 .358 .426 .264
2003 Cincinnati Reds 53 166 34 41 12 1 13 26 94 27 44 1 0 .370 .566 .247
2004 Cincinnati Reds 83 300 49 76 18 0 20 60 154 44 67 1 0 .351 .513 .253
2005 Cincinnati Reds 128 491 85 148 30 0 35 92 283 54 93 0 1 .369 .576 .301
2006 Cincinnati Reds 109 428 62 108 19 0 27 72 208 39 78 0 0 .316 .486 .252
2007 Cincinnati Reds 103 369 58 100 14 0 26 70 192 68 69 6 0 .381 .520 .271

Career Totals 2337 8667 1525 2512 463 36 589 1678 4814 1145 1563 184 67 .374 .555 .290

I think what I was basing it on was that he never played 162 game (161 was his most played). Taking the difference
per season from 162 possible, he's missed about 590 games, including some from Seattle....okay so that's 3.64 seasons
......so about another 140 homers missed which puts him at 720+