The Biggest Mystery of MLB's Steroid Era
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2021
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It's been over a year since this video was made, and it's blown up! Thanks for that. That being said, I hate the 50-HR to No-Hitter comparison. Should've been the cycle. Hindsight is 20/20. Hope you still enjoyed the video.
Brady Anderson is the only player ever to have a 20/50 and 50/20 season
Brady Anderson may have actually been eating a balanced breakfast.
Another thing to point out is that while most steroid users lost most of their baserunning ability and weren't able to swipe as many bags, Anderson was 21 for 29 in stole base opportunities
Luis Gonzalez’s 50 home run season seemed weird as well.
This aged well
You should talk about Bret Boone's forgotten 140 RBI season in '01
Yeah, I really think this season was just a magical baseball moment. Just because some guy had a breakout season doesn't mean he used
Watching Brady and Cal as a kid kind of tainted my view of sports in general. Two of our best players were actually from MD, they were best friends, good dudes, and kept a life-long connection to the team and city even in retirement. You pretty much never see any of that with modern day players in any sport
IIRC, Brady's defense for steroid use was that if he wanted to juice for 1 season he would have done it in his contract year, which was the season after he hit 50 homers.
Roger Marris was a similar case. He was hitting 25 -- 30 HR a season, with 39 being his best. Then in 1961 he hit 61 HR to break Babe Ruth's single season mark. Marris only hit 275 HR in his career in 12 seasons, yet almost 25% of them came in 1 season.
The fact that a 1.034 OPS only translated to a 155 WRC+ in 1996 makes me chuckle when you consider the state of offense today.
The crazy thing? In 1996 he batted .297/.396/.637 to the tune of a whopping 1.034 OPS with 50 homeruns, 110 RBI's and 172 hits in 149 games (687 plate appearances) which comes out to a 6.9 WAR (7.4 oWAR). . . . . . . . and got
I actually like what Brady Anderson himself said about it. He pretty much said that the difference between his average season and that 50-homer season was essentially one more good swing per week. I won’t say that he did or didn’t juice, but that’s a pretty chill, non-sensational way to put it.
Great vid. Admittedly, when I first heard about Anderson's 50 home run season, my immediate first thought was "STEROIDS!!" too. However, the more I think about it, the less it makes sense for him to have been juicing I think: 1. Why only juice for one season (since he went back to career norms after that season, which wouldn't make sense if he was still using)?, 2. Why not juice in a contract year (the following season)?, 3. Why did his physical shape and abilities not seem to change at all during this sudden power surge?, and 4. It's not like this was the only time this has ever happened. Davey Johnson obviously had a similar case, Roger Maris was another famous case, and to pick a more recent example, Jacoby Ellsbury had a very similar sort of career year for an otherwise speedy leadoff hitter in 2011, so it's not like a guy can't have a great year power-wise out of the blue. Not to say he was 100% was clean, but there's very little to suggest to me that he wasn't, which is a surprising conclusion to come to considering the opinion I came in with.
Cal Ripken also said something important about Anderson's 1996 - there was some luck involved. He apparently put excellent swings in an above average number of balls, resulting in better contact for power.
I've always thought something was up with Brady Andersons 50 hr season, another one that is crazy is Greg Vaughn when he was with the Padres.
Great video. I think a key component was that Brady was leading off for a team where all 9 starters had 20+ HRs by season’s end. It was a powerful, “pick your poison” line-up with lots of stars, and pitching staffs felt compelled to go after Brady rather than Alomar, Palmeiro, Bonilla, etc. By 1997 the Oriole line-up was still good (went back to the ALCS), but not as powerful (i.e. lost Bonilla, Ziele, etc. in offseason), and Brady reverted to back to what he had always been. By 1998 the Orioles were old, and their window was closed. In any event, never been any substantive reason to paint him with the steroid brush IMHO…
Great video, I was playing JUCO baseball during this time and are coach used Brady Anderson as an example for proper dieting and so on. Another two weird 50 homerun seasons were Greg Vaugn and Luis Gonzalez. Great video.
I dont think it was forgotten, people actually always brought it up when talking of the injection era,fairly or unfairly.