In the same game that Ichiro Suzuki got his 200th hit, Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista clouted his 50th homer of the season yesterday.
Here are Bautista's home run totals beginning in 2006, his first full year in the majors, with Pittsburgh, then Toronto: 16, 15, 15, 13, 50!
Very Brady Anderson-like.
So, does Bautista's 50-homers raise an eyebrow? Do you really think he's just having a monster year?
I don't know if he is juicing or on HGH (which MLB doesn't test for still) or whatever, all I'm saying if a gun was to my head and I had to say "Yes" he's cheating or "No" he's clean, I'm taking option A. I think he's cheating.
If he's clean, well good for him. But it doesn't make sense to have that big a leap from 13 homers to 50. If he went from 13 to 27, that's plausible. But to improve by 37 home runs? No, I'm not buying it.
That's also the problem that Bud Selig and the players union created when they looked the other way for so many years when the steroid era was in its infancy.
Now, whenever a guy has a great achievement, especially power-wise, we look at it with much skepticism. If Bautista is clean then baseball owes him an apology. I'll apologize too. But guess what? I'd bet he more crooked than a dog's hind leg.
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