Adam Dunn - only one with 4 consecutive 40HR seasons
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Adam Dunn - only current player with 4 consecutive 40HR seasons....and still no respect....
I know he strikes out a lot, but most HR hitters do...if he gets 40+ homers again this season, will he start showing up on the radaar?
is 5 consecutive 40HR seasons any type of record?
I know he strikes out a lot, but most HR hitters do...if he gets 40+ homers again this season, will he start showing up on the radaar?
is 5 consecutive 40HR seasons any type of record?
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<< <i>There was a guy named Ruth, who hit more than 40, for 7 consecutive seasons..
yea, just edited my previous message....(grin) and griffey 5 consecutive seasons beginning in 1996 (bonds dont count).
Dunn definetely could share some good company if he can do it a couple more times...
Dunn is very good but will never be great.
mathew
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NHL hall of fame rookies
The 4 with 40 season is solid.
Mike
/s/ JackWESQ
Also four straight years with 100+ walks, and three of the four years he scored 100+ runs (the year he didn't he had 99), and three of the four years he had 100+ RBI's (the year he didn't he had 92).
So back off us Reds fans, he's not quite as bad as you guys think. (except in the field)
shawn
Steve
Dunn's 535 Feet Shot Into Another State
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Witness the Adam bomb
It took off like Apollo XII. It disappeared faster than Dane Sardinha. It eventually came to rest on a piece of driftwood in a different state than the batter's box it departed.
This, friends, was no ordinary homer.
In baseball, there are home runs. And there are long home runs. And then there are home runs like the one Reds masher Adam Dunn launched Aug. 10 -- home runs that need a passport, a suitcase and a couple of jet-lag pills.
Some guys hit home runs that curl around the foul pole. When Adam Dunn hits home runs, teammate Sean Casey told Wild Pitches, "they disappear over the horizon."
Technically, of course, this particular Adam Dunn homer didn't really disappear over the horizon. But it did, in fact, literally disappear.
One second, it was resting in the right hand of Dodgers pitcher Jose Lima. The next, Dunn was unfurling that monster swing of his. And there went the baseball.
Over the fence in center field, 404 feet from home plate. Over the 20-foot patch of grass behind that fence. Over the 32-foot-high hitter's eye at the back edge of that grass. Then over yet another wall that separates Great American Ball Park from the rest of the world.
It's impressive enough when a guy hits a baseball and it goes over a wall. Adam Dunn hit a baseball that cleared three walls -- and came down in the street.
"Can you imagine you're driving along out there, switching radio channels or something, and then a baseball comes through the window -- during a game?" Casey laughed. "What the heck would you think?"
Yeah, those Reds are just going to have to establish some kind of Adam Dunn protective zone in the future: Block traffic. Hand out hard hats. Maybe build a protective tunnel. Because it just isn't safe to walk the streets of Cincinnati when this guy's around.
This fellow is one strong human being.
"Oh, he's strong," Casey said. "He's country strong, from Porter, Texas. He's United States country strong.
"You know the Paul Bunyan legend?" Casey chuckled. "He's building the Adam Dunn legend. He's so strong, maybe he can help push boulders around and build a dam or something. If a flood is coming, they can use him to stop up the river. He could probably grab those 5,000-pound boulders and pick them up with one arm."
And meanwhile, in his spare time, Adam Dunn could just play baseball.
Fortunately, Dunn's mighty homer off Lima didn't break any windows or cause any concussions. According to an HOK architect who helped design the park, it landed on a street named Mehring Way, a ridiculous 535 feet from home plate.
Then it hopped along for another 200 feet or so and came to rest on a piece of driftwood on the banks of the Ohio River. Which, according to local geographers, meant it was hit in Ohio and came to rest in KENTUCKY. So maybe it just wanted to visit Smarty Jones on the stud farm. That's as good an explanation as any.
"I couldn't hit a golf ball that far," Reds reliever Phil Norton told the Dayton Daily News' Hal McCoy.
"He couldn't," Dunn concurred. "Ever see him play golf?"
McCoy reports that the baseball eventually was retrieved off that driftwood by an electrician named Tom Tuerck. Which is a shame, in retrospect. Think how cool it would have been to just leave that baseball alone and let it float off down the river.
Who knows where it might eventually have ended up? That Ohio River, after all, flows all the way into western Pennsylvania.
"It probably would have wound up in Pittsburgh," said Casey. "And Jason Kendall would have found it on his way to work."
<< <i>Dave Kingman rules!! >>
Beat me to it!
<< <i>I often wonder how long it will be before the average baseball fan begins to realize that strikeouts have nearly the exact same value as any other out. Rarely are they more detrimental to a team than any other type of out and nearly as often they are beneficial to the team because a strikeout is not a double play. Speaking of outs Adam Dunn is very good at NOT making them, which coupled with his outstanding slugging makes him a tremendously valuable offensive baseball player. >>
Maybe you should have a talk with billy bean...
I agree , a K is almost like any other out.
Steve
<< <i>I agree , a K is almost like any other out. >>
Only difference is when you strike out you have zero chance for a hit. So long as you don't K, any ground ball should have a better than 30% chance of being out of reach of the defense. As soon as Dunn sees his extra-base hits drop below 50, his average will drop below .220 and become a poor value for a corner outfielder. But that has yet to happen and his career already 1/3 of the way to what Reggie Jackson did