2007-08-12 23:41:00 · 16 answers · asked by mojo569 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I would say that any player who turns from a lifetime .290 hitter into a .350 hitter, and turns from a 32 HR guy into a 73 HR guy - all at the age of 36 - is on steroids! Then when you factor in that at that very same time, his body instantly doubled in size, and his head tripled in size until he looks like a movie monster - there can be NO DOUBT! Then when you factor in that he has admitted using steroids, I would say that the chances that he used steroids is running at about 150%!
2007-08-13 00:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Joe D. would be the first to tell you that his streak required a TON of luck. Joe D. hit for a high average though. A career BA of .325 (top 50 all-time)... and that doesn't include four prime years lost to military service.
Barry's average during his steroid years was .324 (1998-2004)
His pre-steroid avg was .288 and his post BALCO avg is .274
The steroid expert was right. They DO help with hand-eye coordination.
If Barry had a 56-game streak now (post BALCO) it would require about a dozen "lucky hits" beyond what Joe got. 12 / 56 = 21% ... that's a LOT of luck that must happen exactly when he needs it ... especially since BB doesn't run well enough to get "leg hits".
2007-08-13 08:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by harmonv 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How could it be? Hitting streaks don't have to necessarily involve power hitting or HR's. Everyone thinks everything that has to do with Barry Bonds is drug related, even though he took them legally. Bud Selig and the MLB higherups are the "bad guys" because they did not do anything but sit on their hands and not ban drugs from baseball. They were only interested in selling tickets for their respective franchises because of the HR chases.
Barry and others took those prescribed drugs, which made them even more legal just to help their teams out, which is not a crime at all. Only the ignorant and people too young to know anything about medicine are the bad persons here. Spewing poison and incriminating innocent men like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire are what they're only good for. Otherwise, the fake bandwagon fans have no place in society to make any positive contributions.
2007-08-13 15:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would have nothing to do with steroids, people try to pin too much on steroids. They have all this proof that it does so many things but in the end they can never produce anything! No one has been able to prove that steroids even help you hit the ball farther. It can not improve hand eye coordination. What the HGH does and certain types of roids is help the athlete recover quicker, it allows them to work out longer. You can not take steroids and hit the ball when you could not hit it before. Bonds has always had amaing bat speed and bat control...even before he filled out.
But people would still blame a 57 game hit streak on roids!
2007-08-13 08:24:50 · answer #4 · answered by bdough15 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no because steroids help power not contact. barry bonds is a great player whether or not he took steroids because without his great hitting mechanics he wouldn't have ever gotten to the majors. DiMaggio also had great mechanics and consistency much like bonds has. now in barry bonds career he hits mainly pop ups or fly balls (because of the incentive to become the home run king), not linedrives like dimaggio did. if you watch Ken Griffey Jr. and Barry Bonds play. Griffey usually hits linedrives and not usually mammoth home runs like bonds does.
sorry for the long answer but if bonds broke the 56 game hit streak it wouldn't be steroids but rather his mechanics which have actually gotten worse now that is older and swinging for the fences
2007-08-13 08:26:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if increasing bat speed can translate to better hitting. Oh wait, it can.
However, to be practical, Bonds isn't the kind of guy who hits for average anyway. He can no longer leg out an infield hit and he cannot use the entire field.
Of course today there is more extensive use of relief pitchers and better scouting than there was in Joe D's day. Plus, the average pitcher today is far better than the average pitcher back then in terms of what pitches they can throw and the speed they can throw them at. You would also need a team as dominating as the Yankees were in that era to protect a hitter, with free agency and more teams, that's hardly possible.
2007-08-13 08:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by Rob B 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dude if he broke the steak it can;t be from steroid because steroids can only make you stronger not improve your batting skills so you hit the ball. You can take steroids and could strike out every time. Steroids doesn't make you hit the ball a good eye and good mechanics makes you hit the ball. NOT STEROIDS!!!
2007-08-13 07:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by Die Hard Sox Fan 4 Life 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably The Media Needs Something To Write About!
2007-08-13 07:49:30 · answer #8 · answered by LedZeppelin4ever1955 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Of course some of these idiots would. Steroids cannot help you with your hand-eye coordination. Some people give steroids way more credit than it deserves. Some have their hidden motives for why they want to make bonds the face of steroids.
2007-08-13 08:10:04 · answer #9 · answered by ray1273 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A legitimate question deserves a legitimate answer.
No.
Steroids would have nothing to do with it.
I would say it would be because of the over-paid water-downed pitching that's in the Major Leagues today.
But then it's been this way for 35-years and no one has broken it yet.
2007-08-13 07:43:27 · answer #10 · answered by Jay9ball 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋