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Oh my. He's working with the tool of the devil. A psychologist.
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Great pick up. My gawd.
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2nd most homeruns since 2004.
again, frank thomas the future HOFer dropped off the 1st year at DH, take that and add a new league to the mix, you have a potential drop off in the 1st year.
again, frank thomas the future HOFer dropped off the 1st year at DH, take that and add a new league to the mix, you have a potential drop off in the 1st year.
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I'm too lazy to look it up... How bad was the Big Skirt's drop off that first year?
Was it as HORRIBLY, TREMENDOUSLY, PATHETICALLY bad as Dunn's?
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no. 80 point drop or so in BA homeruns dropped as well. Im too tired to look it up as well.
All im trying to say is a future HOFer had a hard time adjusting to the DH role and he wasnt even switching leagues.....which Dunn did, and he switched to a better league on top of it ( and probably not a HOFer)
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1997-
.347 BA .456 OBP 35 HRs
1998-
.265 BA .381 OBP 29 HRS
.347 BA .456 OBP 35 HRs
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He's close to 400 HRs. Excluding this season if he can keep up his career pace of 30-40 HR he may be close to 500, if not over, when his contract is up.
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but im not getting on board with him getting over his issues. I think its possible, but i wont hold my breath
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also frank thomas was a much better hitter than dunn as well.
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Thanks for looking it up.
Dunn is no Thomas and honestly, 2nd most HR's since 2004 only means that he is at the end of his career. 2004 was way too long ago to matter to this Sox team and the next 3 years of Sox teams. If he was 2nd in HR's since 2009, that might mean more.
Dunn is no Thomas and honestly, 2nd most HR's since 2004 only means that he is at the end of his career. 2004 was way too long ago to matter to this Sox team and the next 3 years of Sox teams. If he was 2nd in HR's since 2009, that might mean more.
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I think he'll be fine. He's had an awful first half and all but to go from what he was to this in just one off season doesn't make sense. There is no reason for it. Even if this year he's as bad till October, I doubt, barring injury, he's going to bat .180/.320/ 7 HR/ 21 RBI or whatever he has every year in Chicago.
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I wish I had your positivity.
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....from the Trib.... "While his teammates struggled with runners in scoring position, Dunn said before the game he will try to cure his problems with the help of a clear mind.
"I just need to go back to basics and quit thinking," Dunn said. "It's not me. I'm not a thinker. I have to quit thinking. That's not me. I'm not a thinker. I have to see it, hit the (darn) thing and not make it so complicated."
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From the soundbite from this interview, he also isn't a thinker. At all. God damn.
"I just need to go back to basics and quit thinking," Dunn said. "It's not me. I'm not a thinker. I have to quit thinking. That's not me. I'm not a thinker. I have to see it, hit the (darn) thing and not make it so complicated."
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From the soundbite from this interview, he also isn't a thinker. At all. God damn.
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Its not like I said something completely optimistic. I'm not promising 50 homers a season for anything.
I'm just not willing to buy that Dunn is done out of nowhere.
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As I said, I wish I had your positivity...
He is on pace to shatter the strikeout record.
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This sounds like Roy Hibbert who has done this in the past. I say this about Roy I think he just needs to grow a pair of balls.
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And Thomas never hit that well again. Hell he only had one year (2000) after 1998 that was even above his career numbers.
Also lets not forget that 1999 was just as bad as 1998 for Thomas.
Thomas led the league 10 times in BA, AVG, OBP, or OPS in 1997 and before. Not once in any of those was he even top 3 in any of those again.
Could it have been moving to DH? Sure. Could it have been he was just declining like most (non steroid) people do around 30? Probably more likely.
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I would hazard a guess that once they started moving Thomas to DH, that messed with his timing. Whenever he played FB, he was into the game more and hit better.
When he played DH exclusively, he struggled.
In 2000, I think that he played a lot more at FB that season and his numbers showed. He was robbed of an MVP by a steroid user
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