Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.
That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.
A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.
One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.