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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A-Rod has passed the total of home runs hit by the Pride of the Yankees, Lou Gehrig, 493, although Gehrig would surely have hit far more than 500 if his career hadn’t been cut short by his fatal illness.