☆☆☆ - Ken Griffey Jr. 600+ Career Homerun Thread - ☆☆☆

[scarface2k1]

good question. wish i knew.

 

[doublejs07]

Pennies from heaven

Pitcher Josh Fogg arrived at his locker Wednesday to find it stacked with 60 boxes of pennies, 2,500 pennies to a box. He immediately looked at Griffey and said, "That's good, Griff, real funny. Kick me when I'm down."

Griffey warned him but Fogg didn't believe it when Griffey said he was going to pay off a $1,500 debt in pennies.

"I'm a man of my word," said Griffey. "When you owe a man $1,500, you pay him. You can't do a whole lot with pennies, can you? Just think, each box weighs 16 pounds so Fogg has 60 bowling balls in his locker."

Said Fogg, "I'm going to take them to bullpen and count them because I have a lot time on my hands."


http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/co.../reds/2008/05/14/ddn051508spredsnotesweb.html

 

[wildkycat]

^ here's a pic: Re: The Major League BaseballPost

 

[you big dummy]

Originally Posted by wildKYcat

^ here's a pic: Re: The Major League Baseball Post

[h2]150,000 pennies for your thoughts[/h2]
By Hal McCoy | Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 03:20 PM

You've heard of Three Coins in a Fountain, right? How about 150,000 pennies in a locker?

That's what Josh Fogg found in his locker when he came to work in the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse Wednesday. There were 60 boxes of pennies, $25 worth to a box, stacked in his locker - top to bottom like cereal boxes in Kroger's.

Fogg immediately looked at Ken Griffey Jr. and said, "That's good, Griff. That's funny. Kick me while I'm down."

Griffey had told Fogg he was going to pay off the $1,500 he owed him in pennies, but Fogg didn't believe it.

"I'm a man of my word," said Griffey. "And when you owe a man $1,500, you pay him. And I'd like to thank the lovely people at National City Bank for helping me with this joke. There isn't a whole lot you can do with pennies. Just think, each box weighs 16 pounds, so the man has 60 bowling balls in his locker."

Fogg was mystified and mesmerized and finally said, "I'm going to take them out to the bullpen and count them. I have a lot of time on my hands out there. I'm sure these were delivered by Brinks truck and Griffey had his paycheck in there, too."

 

[Sinner]

The Kid will always be the kid...

 

[wildkycat]

just a little karma bump...598 gonna be hit tonight. we got a 6 game homestand 5/27 - 6/1...maybe (hopefully) he gets it done then.

 

[wildkycat]

sig check.

 

[johndaeyun]

598! GO JUNIOR!!!

 

[joe cool23]

What a great night, two of my favorite players are out of their "slumps". (Griffey & Jesus)

 

[overtime626]

go junior! on another note, i was looking over his stats and if he averaged 35-40 hr's instead of getting injured those 5-6 years this would be more in therange of #720

 

[cardizzle45]

NICE

 

[cardizzle45]

oops double post

 

[Sinner]

Alright!!!

 

[feelmode]

2nd favorite player of all time, (1st is Mattingly

)

Anyways, it amazes me to think of what the kid could have accomplished. I feel like damn near his whole career he was injured. The all time record should havecame to him with ease. Unfortunately that isnt the way it worked but an amazing career none the less. One of the best looking swings of all time. cant wait tosee him get over the 600 hump.

 

[you big dummy]

[h1]Ken Griffey Jr.'s home runs and analysis[/h1]
By Yahoo! Sports Staff and Inside Edge 54 minutes ago

Ken Griffey Jr. is two home runs away from reaching 600, a milestone shared by only five others.
Home runs by year

• Griffey's total career stats
• Tim Brown column: Griffey andthe silent 600


All-time home-run leaders
(Players with more than 500)

[table][tr][td]Rk.[/td] [td]
Player
[/td] [td]AB[/td] [td]H[/td] [td]RBI[/td] [td]SO[/td] [td]AVG[/td] [td]HR[/td] [/tr][tr][td]1. [/td] [td]
Barry Bonds
[/td] [td]9,847[/td] [td]2,935[/td] [td]1,996[/td] [td]1,539[/td] [td].298[/td] [td]762[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2. [/td] [td]
Hank Aaron
[/td] [td]12,364[/td] [td]3,771[/td] [td]2,297[/td] [td]1,383[/td] [td].305[/td] [td]755[/td] [/tr][tr][td]3. [/td] [td]
Babe Ruth
[/td] [td]8,399[/td] [td]2,873[/td] [td]2,213[/td] [td]1,330[/td] [td].342[/td] [td]714[/td] [/tr][tr][td]4. [/td] [td]
Willie Mays
[/td] [td]10,881[/td] [td]3,283[/td] [td]1,903[/td] [td]1,526[/td] [td].302[/td] [td]660[/td] [/tr][tr][td]5. [/td] [td]
Sammy Sosa
[/td] [td]8,813[/td] [td]2,408[/td] [td]1,667[/td] [td]2,306[/td] [td].273[/td] [td]609[/td] [/tr][tr][td]6. [/td] [td]
Ken Griffey Jr.*
[/td] [td]8,996[/td] [td]2,601[/td] [td]1,723[/td] [td]1,619[/td] [td].289[/td] [td]598[/td] [/tr][tr][td]7. [/td] [td]
Frank Robinson
[/td] [td]10,006[/td] [td]2,943[/td] [td]1,812[/td] [td]1,532[/td] [td].294[/td] [td]586[/td] [/tr][tr][td]8. [/td] [td]
Mark McGwire
[/td] [td]6,187[/td] [td]1,626[/td] [td]1,414[/td] [td]1,596[/td] [td].263[/td] [td]583[/td] [/tr][tr][td]9. [/td] [td]
Harmon Killebrew
[/td] [td]8,147[/td] [td]2,086[/td] [td]1,584[/td] [td]1,699[/td] [td].256[/td] [td]573[/td] [/tr][tr][td]10. [/td] [td]
Rafael Palmeiro
[/td] [td]10,472[/td] [td]3,020[/td] [td]1,835[/td] [td]1,348[/td] [td].288[/td] [td]569[/td] [/tr][tr][td]11. [/td] [td]
Reggie Jackson
[/td] [td]9,864[/td] [td]2,584[/td] [td]1,702[/td] [td]2,597[/td] [td].262[/td] [td]563[/td] [/tr][tr][td]12. [/td] [td]
Mike Schmidt
[/td] [td]8,352[/td] [td]2,234[/td] [td]1,595[/td] [td]1,883[/td] [td].267[/td] [td]548[/td] [/tr][tr][td]13. [/td] [td]
Mickey Mantle
[/td] [td]8,102[/td] [td]2,415[/td] [td]1,509[/td] [td]1,710[/td] [td].298[/td] [td]536[/td] [/tr][tr][td]14. [/td] [td]
Jimmie Foxx
[/td] [td]8,134[/td] [td]2,646[/td] [td]1,922[/td] [td]1,311[/td] [td].325[/td] [td]534[/td] [/tr][tr][td]15. [/td] [td]
Alex Rodriguez*
[/td] [td]7,452[/td] [td]2,280[/td] [td]1,518[/td] [td]1,546[/td] [td].306[/td] [td]524[/td] [/tr][tr][td]16. [/td] [td]
Willie McCovey
[/td] [td]8,197[/td] [td]2,211[/td] [td]1,555[/td] [td]1,550[/td] [td].270[/td] [td]521[/td] [/tr][tr][td]16. [/td] [td]
Ted Williams
[/td] [td]7,706[/td] [td]2,654[/td] [td]1,839[/td] [td]709[/td] [td].344[/td] [td]521[/td] [/tr][tr][td]18. [/td] [td]
Frank Thomas*
[/td] [td]8,091[/td] [td]2,441[/td] [td]1,699[/td] [td]1,370[/td] [td].302[/td] [td]519[/td] [/tr][tr][td]19. [/td] [td]
Jim Thome*
[/td] [td]6,986[/td] [td]1,956[/td] [td]1,423[/td] [td]2,089[/td] [td].280[/td] [td]516[/td] [/tr][tr][td]20. [/td] [td]
Ernie Banks
[/td] [td]9,421[/td] [td]2,583[/td] [td]1,636[/td] [td]1,236[/td] [td].274[/td] [td]512[/td] [/tr][tr][td]20. [/td] [td]
Eddie Mathews
[/td] [td]8,537[/td] [td]2,315[/td] [td]1,453[/td] [td]1,487[/td] [td].271[/td] [td]512[/td] [/tr][tr][td]22. [/td] [td]
Mel Ott
[/td] [td]9,456[/td] [td]2,876[/td] [td]1,860[/td] [td]896[/td] [td].304[/td] [td]511[/td] [/tr][tr][td]23. [/td] [td]
Eddie Murray
[/td] [td]11,336[/td] [td]3,255[/td] [td]1,917[/td] [td]1,516[/td] [td].287[/td] [td]504[/td] [/tr][/table]*Active

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Griffey's home run frequency since 2007
• Last year was the first season since 2000 that Junior had more than 500 at-bats. Starting 134 games, he wore down in the second half and experienced asharp decrease in home run power that has carried into 2008:
[table][tr][td]
Period
[/td] [td]
At-bats
[/td] [td]
Home run frequency (AB/HR)
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2007 - first half
[/td] [td]
287
[/td] [td]
12.5
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2007- second half
[/td] [td]
241
[/td] [td]
34.4
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2008
[/td] [td]
163
[/td] [td]
40.8
[/td] [/tr][/table]
Fastballs located middle and up in the zone
• His power (but not his ability to get a hit) has been diminishing the past few seasons against fastballs located in the upper two-thirds of the strikezone:
[table][tr][td]
Years
[/td] [td]
Batting Avg.
[/td] [td]
HR percent of AB
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2003-2004
[/td] [td]
.347 (43-for-124)
[/td] [td]
12.9 Percent (16-for-124)
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2005-2006
[/td] [td]
.326 (105-for-322)
[/td] [td]
9.9 Percent (32-for-322)
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2007-2008
[/td] [td]
.330 (76-for-230)
[/td] [td]
6.1 Percent (14-for-230)
[/td] [/tr][/table]
Home runs by pitch type
• A few years ago Griffey occasionally went yard on curveballs and changeups. More recently, his home runs have mostly come on harder pitches (fastballs andsliders):
[table][tr][td]
Years
[/td] [td]
Fastball
[/td] [td]
Slider
[/td] [td]
Curve
[/td] [td]
Change / Other
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2002-2005
[/td] [td]
71%
[/td] [td]
11%
[/td] [td]
6%
[/td] [td]
9%
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2006-2008
[/td] [td]
77%
[/td] [td]
16%
[/td] [td]
2%
[/td] [td]
5%
[/td] [/tr][/table]
Home runs by pitch location
• Griffey has also lost some ability to reach across the plate and hit outside pitches for power. Lately he's been more likely to go deep on pitchesover the inner third of the plate:
[table][tr][td]
Years
[/td] [td]
Inside
[/td] [td]
Middle
[/td] [td]
Away
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2002-2005
[/td] [td]
24%
[/td] [td]
41%
[/td] [td]
35%
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
2006-2008
[/td] [td]
32%
[/td] [td]
39%
[/td] [td]
30%
[/td] [/tr][/table]

• As a result of finding more power on pitches inside, only one of his home runs since last season has gone to the opposite field.

Analytical statistics as of May 21.

 

[paul is on tilt]

 

[finnns2003]

my favorite player ever. the reason i'm a mariners fan. i could go on and on... too bad he left his career in seattle

 

[dawktwenty]

Griffey is probably my all time fav athlete man. The kid finally gettin to 600 baby

Im goin to the phillies/reds game in like 2 weeks Im hoping that by some chance he hits it that day

 

[bkmac]

2 more Griffey, 2 more

 

[atljunkie]

i was at the padres game last night when he went yanko!
i was in right field behind him too.
people were talking mad smack and he would just shrug his shoulders.
my friends and i were alll in reds gear cause he likes the reds so we supported that.
we would stand up and yell "Griffey!!!!" he would look back and smile and put his glove up...
we did it like 3 times. dude has mad swag though.

 

[grizztheboss]

599!

 

[harlemtothebronx]

Uno mas.

 

[you big dummy]

1 away

 

[Sinner]

GO GO GO!!!

 

[80jerryrice80]

I cant wait, I love this guy

, I still remember when i played little league, I would always pretend to be this guy. I also remember reading about him inSports illustrated for kids.