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Originally Posted by Sizeman21
Mike Schimmel? More like Mike Schmidt! I don't think a 600 ft HR is possible even from the likes of players today. He must be juicing...just kidding.
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One of the odd things (I mean, the length of the bomb is odd enough, obviously) about this is that Mike Schimmel isn't exactly known as one of the sluggers of the WPK. He is a great fielder- a 3 time-Gold Glove center fielder. And he possesses great speed and base stealing ability.
And granted he is starting to show some over-the-fence power as he heads into the peak years of his career but as you can see below he only got into double digits in home runs in the past two seasons (including the current one).
If you were making bets on who would hit an historically long homer in the WPK, you would probably pick someone like veteran sluggers Devin Schwisow or Ju-au Ju, or a young slugger like Mike Lovett (or, of course, the man with the most home runs in WPK history, Nate Bennett, except he spent this season languishing in AAA and has now retired, something I hadn't realized until I just looked him up), but you wouldn't likely put money down on Schimmel.
