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Originally Posted by Andy
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I looked carefully at Sosa's numbers, and I only see about 100 extra homers due to steroid use, at the most. I determined this by reducing all the big years to 40 homers. This is not unreasonable, playing in Wrigley. This gives us:
66-26 = 40
64-24 = 40
63-23 = 40
50-10 = 40
49 -9 = 40
26+24+23+10+9 = 92 homers, subtracted from his lifetime total of 609 = 517.
So, in a non-steroid era, does 517 homers get him in? Depends. His 92 few homers would PROBABLY been half hits, half outs. So, credit 46 fewer hits, and his average drops a teeny bit...but his slugging and OPS take a significant hit.
So, his stats then look a lot like Ernie Banks.
Personally, the lack of defense, the cheating, the hitting in a hitter's park, the lifetime average likely in the .260's, essentially league average, all question his candidacy.