A-Rod was also the youngest player ever to reach the 500-home-run mark. I hope he stays healthy since he’s the best chance in the near future of someone passing Barry Bonds’ career total.
As much as you might not like A-Rod, you gotta love him next to Barry Bonds. I will cheer every time A-Rod hits a home run, because it will be one run closer to Barry Bonds’ date with obscurity.
He’s part of the reason I wasn’t particularly worried about Bonds taking the HR Record ... A-Rod should blow that record away (Not to mention the doubles record, the hits record, the RBI Record, etc.). He’s around 30, and he’s already surpassed Jeff Bagwell’s HR total for his entire career (449 - though, to be fair, much of that was in the ridiculously HUGE Astrodome).
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