Does anyone care Frank Thomas hit 500 home runs this year?

Question

I mean he did that and I yawned. Nothing against him...it's just not as a big of a deal anymore. 600 is the new 500 probably.

Answer 1

I care somewhat. I feel badly for Frank Thomas that he has become so overshadowed, because I think he was one of the few legitimate power hitters of his generation. People seem to forget what a monster he was in the mid-90's. But I still don't see his 500 as a big deal the way Reggie Jackson's or Mike Schmidts' 500 were a big deal (I think those are the first two players I remember reaching 500). I remember when Yastremski reached 400--that was a huge deal, back in 1979. Four hundred used to be automatic hall of fame, until Dave Kingman, Darrell Evans and Jose Canseco. Now you will likely see people locked out with 500. I say Mark McGuire is questionable, and not just because of the steroids. I think that in general, homerun totals now need to be adjusted down about a hundred or so from what used to be considered the benchmark numbers for past generations. You clip 100 dingers off McGuire and he's the Dave Kingman of his generation, nothing more. He's that player, just slightly more likeable.

Thomas, though, was an all-around hitter--power and average. I think he should be in the Hall.

Answer 2

Yeah I cared cause I care about the game of BaseBall!!!

No 500 will still be the key homerun!!!

Poeple just dont get it !! Do you have any idea how hard it is to accomplish this feat??

On June 28, 2007, Frank Thomas became the 21st player to hit 500 home runs. He was followed by Alex Rodriguez on August 4, 2007 when he became the 22nd and youngest ever, to hit his 500th home run. The most recent player to join the 500 HR club was Jim Thome on September 16, 2007.

Also you can add Tom Glavine 300 career win...He very well maybe the last pitcher to ever win 300 games in his career. Randy Johnson is the closest active pitcher with 284 but injury will not allow him to get the 16 wins he needs he is followed by Mike Mussina with 250 David Wells 239 Jamie Moyer 230 and Curt Schilling 216. I dont think anyone of these players will achive 300 career wins do to age or injury...

Answer 3

Well, if you look at his career he got there in a pretty big way. Also, if you look at the players lined up to hit 500, after Gary Sheffield and Manny Ramirez there really aren't many who look certain. We might have just run through a spurt of a lot of guys making it.

This is why I'm all for separating the stats by centuries. If baseball goes on for 1,000 years, even 600 HRs will be crowded. To get an idea of the difficulty of 3,000 hits and 500 HRs and so forth, if the 21st century had its own stats, fans could better appreciate the players playing in their times. There will always be an all time list. But for the benefit of the fan, why not separate them out?

Answer 4

If Frank Thomas had hit 500 HRs this year, he would have the single season record. Just kidding! He did, however REACH the 500 HR plateau and yes it has lost some of its luster. Jim Thome also hit #500 this year. 600 could very well be the new 500. Nice analagy

Answer 5

i think of there are 3 significant reasons: a million> the 5 hundred HR club isn't any long an significant milestone in modern-day baseball. in the a hundred and twenty season (pre-1995), there have been 14 participants. considering the fact that 1995, there have been 7 additions to the 5 hundred club, with quite a few achieveable this 12 months (A-Rod, Frank Thomas, Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez). With the steroid era inflating homerun totals and achieveable weaker pitching by way of enlargement/help in skills pool in the MLB, 500 merely isn't that significant. 2> Homeruns are actually not as particular: after the glow of the Sosa/McGuire chase, then Bonds take of the unmarried season checklist and now his attack on Hank Aaron, there is merely been a glut of homestead run suitable archives. Now, mixture in the bursting of the steroid bubble, and all this communicate of homestead runs is merely not as proper to the informal fan. 3> Frank Thomas merely hasn't been that memorable of a action picture star. All those years with the White Sox truly did not stand out, whether you think approximately his 2 MVP seasons. particular, he could desire to blast those homeruns, and his streak of 8 seasons with a hundred+ RBIs became into helpful, however the Sox did not win the international series on the back of Frank. He in straightforward terms performed 35 video games in the international series winning season (his final with the Sox), and before that, from 1990 - 2004, the Sox in straightforward terms regarded in 2 submit-seasons (1993 became into the terrific 12 months, with the Sox dropping in the ALCS). He by no skill became into that grasp guy you mandatory to observe on the ballpark, and being a delegated hitter actual lowers his evaluation in many followers' eyes.

Answer 6

I am sure Frank Thomas cared about it.

It's still a big #, it's just not "that's a hall of famer" big.
Not saying he won't be a HOFer, just it shouldn't be guaranteed because of that one #.

Hitting 50 home runs used to be a very big deal too, (no one in the 80's did it at all), but even it's waning. Not everyone can do it, but with Luis Gonzalez and Brady Anderson managed it, ehh, something's wrong.

Answer 7

well Barry Bonds stole the spot light with 756, which he cheated for (its not obvious at all with those trunks growing out of his neck and the 30 pound muscle gain in one off season) and also A-Rod with his 500+ at the age of 32, which is believed that he will be the next home run title winner. Its just Frank Thomas isnt getting the fame, because of more known players

Answer 8

Nope I could care less- too many players are getting 500 hrs.
I got interested in Bond's quest to beat Aaron and we'll be waiting again in a few years when Arod gets close to Bonds.
The hm derby with McQuire and Sosa was fun to watch but other than that it's just another long ball out of the park....Big Popi is more fun to watch- Ramirez needs to run out of the batter's box when he hits one instead of just standing there- example the other night when he only got a single instead of a double...what a hot dog

Answer 9

There were a few die hard White Sox fans out there that gave Frank Thomas some love for all he did for that team during is long stay in Chicago. It's wasn't big overall but didn't go unnoticed.

Answer 10

I agree, so many guys have either hit 500 in the last 10 years, and will hit #500 in the next 5 that its just not exciting anymore. I didn't care when Thome hit his 500th last month either.