carmine9 wrote:
fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:
1994 was the strike year. Those numbers, extrapolated, would be much higher.
From 93-98, his HR average dropped 20%. His batting average had dropped 33 points. his slugging pecentage was down 68 points. He had fewer SBs than he'd had since he was 23. He was 33.
33 year olds whose numbers are dropping that quickly usually disappear within a year or two.
You chose his best pre PED homerun year 1993 to push your narrative.
Hear are his homerun totals from 1988 thru 1992: 24, 19, 33, 25, 34.
Doesn't really support your claim that the 37 homers in 1998 (pre drugs) shows he was in decline
Do you understand how declines work? you measure them from a peak.
you tell me if this looks like going up, coming down, or staying flat:
33
25
34
46
37
33
42
40
37
34