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Originally Posted by IsaYogi  Chicken and egg? Are fat hitters good at homeruns or are homerun hitters fat because they do not have to run fast? Bad hitter + Slow = Not On Team.
And this has been forever. Old Babe Ruth was one of the fattest men in Baseball in his day. |
If you remember Cecil Fielder was a big boy when he played in the early nineties and he had a home run title being the first to hit 50 in a long time.....and now his son Prince Fielder is going to win the NL HR title and also quite the big boy.
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Originally Posted by PassTheBypass Understood. He gave the term "athlete" a real stretch.
However, there were alot fewer of those type of "power" hitters in the 1970's. Then the 1990s had a sudden bulking up (not from steriods, heavens no!), and now you have first base, third base, and left field held by the big hitters, and when was the last time you saw a skinny DH in the AL? Just seems like bulk is getting rewarded in what was once a speedster's sport. |
Before A-Rod went to the Yankees you had him at Shortstop hitting over 40hrs a year, and shortstops were always the quick scrawny ones (like Ozzie Smith).
I don't see this changing anytime soon.