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Griffey Jr, retires

by bucksnightmare , Posted to Fishing Buddy on 06/03/2010 1:02 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
bucksnightmare

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Ken Griffey Jr retires from baseball making it a sad day for the game. Griffey practically saved the Mariners franchise when he first came up. He ends with 630 career homers, and definately a first ballot hall of famer. I personally was a huge Griffey fan and what impresses me most is that his name has never been drug through the steriod drama of baseball. Goodbye to one of the smoothest swings in baseball.
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by guns4ever on 06/03/2010 1:30 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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You suppose he'll find another job to carry him over until he's old enough to draw on his 401(k)?  
"Lifes tough pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid"  --John Wayne
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by fear_no_fish on 06/03/2010 1:32 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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He was still playing up until this day? He was one of those baseball role models that never ended up disappointing!
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by yelowjackt on 06/03/2010 1:36 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
yelowjackt
Joined: 08/31/2005
Location: ND

Yup 22 years not many guys can play proffesionally for that long the run he had from '96--'00 was just amazing.


SEASON TEAM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
1989 Sea 127 455 61 120 23 0 16 61 44 83 16 7 .264 .329 .420 .749
1990 Sea 155 597 91 179 28 7 22 80 63 81 16 11 .300 .366 .481 .847
1991 Sea 154 548 76 179 42 1 22 100 71 82 18 6 .327 .399 .527 .926
1992 Sea 142 565 83 174 39 4 27 103 44 67 10 5 .308 .361 .535 .896
1993 Sea 156 582 113 180 38 3 45 109 96 91 17 9 .309 .408 .617 1.025
1994 Sea 111 433 94 140 24 4 40 90 56 73 11 3 .323 .402 .674 1.076
1995 Sea 72 260 52 67 7 0 17 42 52 53 4 2 .258 .379 .481 .860
1996 Sea 140 545 125 165 26 2 49 140 78 104 16 1 .303 .392 .628 1.020
1997 Sea 157 608 125 185 34 3 56 147 76 121 15 4 .304 .382 .646 1.028
1998 Sea 161 633 120 180 33 3 56 146 76 121 20 5 .284 .365 .611 .976
1999 Sea 160 606 123 173 26 3 48 134 91 108 24 7 .285 .384 .576 .960
2000 Cin 145 520 100 141 22 3 40 118 94 117 6 4 .271 .387 .556 .943
2001 Cin 111 364 57 104 20 2 22 65 44 72 2 0 .286 .365 .533 .898
2002 Cin 70 197 17 52 8 0 8 23 28 39 1 2 .264 .358 .426 .784
2003 Cin 53 166 34 41 12 1 13 26 27 44 1 0 .247 .370 .566 .936
2004 Cin 83 300 49 76 18 0 20 60 44 67 1 0 .253 .351 .513 .864
2005 Cin 128 491 85 148 30 0 35 92 54 93 0 1 .301 .369 .576 .945
2006 Cin 109 428 62 108 19 0 27 72 39 78 0 0 .252 .316 .486 .802
2007 Cin 144 528 78 146 24 1 30 93 85 99 6 1 .277 .372 .496 .868
2008 CWS 41 131 16 34 10 0 3 18 17 25 0 0 .260 .347 .405 .752
2008 Cin 102 359 51 88 20 1 15 53 61 64 0 1 .245 .355 .432 .787
2008 -- 143 490 67 122 30 1 18 71 78 89 0 1 .249 .353 .424 .777
2009 Sea 117 387 44 83 19 0 19 57 63 80 0 0 .214 .324 .411 .735
2010 Sea 33 98 6 18 2 0 0 7 9 17 0 0 .184 .250 .204 .454
Total -- 2671 9801 1662 2781 524 38 630 1836 1312 1779 184 69 .284 .370 .538 .908




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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Tim Sandstrom on 06/03/2010 1:37 PM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Stand up guy and thank the Mighty Lord above that he wasn't tied up in the steroid days.  Although, you look at that era in his stat sheet above and one KINDA wonders.

Funny isn't it with how homers come down and the perfect games and no hitters start to increase.




 
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by zoops on 06/03/2010 2:23 PM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Just imagine if he hadn't had all those hamstring problems and other injuries during his career...took away about 3 season's worth of games from him when he was still pretty much in his prime. 
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by elvis1 on 06/03/2010 2:24 PM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Probably the sweetest swing of all time.....The Kid was awesome and all-around ball player.

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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Tim Sandstrom on 06/03/2010 2:28 PM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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elvis,

Not being partial to Mauer but man, Mauer has a swing that should be modeled in all pee-wee on up baseball type leagues.




 
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Farnorth on 06/03/2010 2:30 PM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Tim Sandstrom Said:
Stand up guy and thank the Mighty Lord above that he wasn't tied up in the steroid days.  Although, you look at that era in his stat sheet above and one KINDA wonders.

Funny isn't it with how homers come down and the perfect games and no hitters start to increase.
Griffey was on pace to demolish some big records.  The injury bug hit him hard.  Timmy hit on a question that I always had about him.  Why all the injuries all of a sudden?  Followed by a huge drop in production?  Best to leave it alone and I trust that the writers and mudslingers will but it is eerily similar to some others who shouldn't be named with Griffey.  I'm happy to keep believing he was always clean.  I do the same with Lance Armstrong too BTW.
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Tim Sandstrom on 06/03/2010 2:33 PM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I actually honestly did not remember him hitting 56 jacks in back to back years like that.  Then whalla, it fizzles.  It does raise questions and I'm with you.  I'll just leave it alone.  Heck, I never thought a thing until all of a sudden that stat line gets tossed up and I took notice to 1997 and 1998.

Something else pretty interesting.  Take a look at 1997 and 1998.  Talk about consistent in all stat categories!




 
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Chargers on 06/03/2010 5:17 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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The sad part is I think there is always going to be a big ? with the late 90's with any power player. I believe he was clean, he sure didn't change in size as much as Barry or Big Mac. I am sure that part of his injury problems came from how he played the game, I remember many plays where he hit the wall on a dead sprint and made the play. Baseball needs more players like him, Gwynn, Cal, Boggs and all the other old timers that just played the game and never got in trouble.

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by skoalongcut on 06/03/2010 5:29 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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It isn't iffy if it's Griffey.  One of my favorite SportsCenter homerun calls.  You had to respect him as a "ballplayer."  Even though he was a Twin killer.  I remember the game that him and his dad both hit a homerun.  He was a human highlight reel.
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Tim Sandstrom on 06/03/2010 5:55 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Good point on body size.  Yeah, he never did explode like Bonds and Mac attack.




 
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by marksman on 06/03/2010 7:31 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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It was said that he had the fastest swing of all times. He never bragged about himself it was always a team effort. One of the finest players in the last 20 years. Very few errors

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by bradyg on 06/03/2010 7:36 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Tim everyone knows that Griffey's productivity declined because of injuries. After 2000, he was hurt almost every year. They didn't even start testing for steroids until what 2004? If he would have been on steroids, he would have had the same productivity until then. And plus, I would never call someone who hit 30 homers in a year as having a bad year.
Brady
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by HUNTNFISHND on 06/03/2010 8:25 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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There has never been any link between steroids and Griffey Jr. or Frank Thomas. I think those two played the game the right way, and clean. Although their probably the only ones who know for sure. But like was said before, their bodies didn't change drasticly over the years like Bonds, Mcguire, Clemens, etc. It's guys like Thomas and Jr who should be the most upset about MLB drug policy, if they were indeed clean.

Griffey Jr. was fun to watch, hitting and fielding!
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by BringingTheRain on 06/03/2010 8:36 PM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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5th on the career home run list. Like to know what he could have done if he hadn't been injured so much. Well, technically, I guess hes truly 4th since Bonds is a probably a cheater. Huge Griffey fan growing up. My Little League coach used to show us footage of Griffey's swing, during practice.
 
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by Farnorth on 06/03/2010 8:51 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I will never point fingers and I won't simply defend a player just because they never failed a test.  Yup, Griffey never blew up like some of the classic roiders.  There were a lot of guys that were dirty who didn't.  That proves nothing.

On the other hand, give me a break about the injuries and the style he played.  There is a very close resemblance to some of  his injury problems and guys like Giambi.  Some of the same kind of injuries.  Remember all the people touting how A Rod was so clean?  What do we know now.

I'll continue to tell myself that Griffey was clean along with a bunch of others I have some suspicion about.  The problem I have with the whole era is that I don't believe anybody that played then.  I distrust every one of them because every dirty player started out by denying everything.  The sad part of that is that dirty or clean doesn't really matter to me anymore after I started assuming everybody was dirty.  Just like cycling which was even worse.
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by fconcolor on 06/03/2010 10:06 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Isn't it grand.  We can thank players like Mac, Canseco and Bonds et, all for casting a cloud of doubt over everyone who played in the late 80's and through out the 90's.  You guys brought up some good points about Griffey Jr being injured quite a bit over his career.  The thing that you can say about him is that his recovery time from those injuries were not miraculous. 
I do believe that Griffey was not a steroid user.  But that is just pure speculation since I am not a trainer, or never new him on a personal basis.  There are certain things that I would like to believe in and that is that even though there were a TON of bad apples using steroids during that area there had to be a few that had some integrity and honor (maybe I am a dreamer!).  In my opinion Griffey was one of those guys based on the way he carried himself both on and off the field.  Stand up guy!
Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Tim Sandstrom on 06/04/2010 08:37 AM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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My new favorite phrase, I'm not saying I'm just saying.

 




 
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Re: Griffey Jr, retires
by Farnorth on 06/04/2010 08:58 AM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Tim Sandstrom Said:

My new favorite phrase, I'm not saying I'm just saying.

 

I like mine better.  I say I won't point fingers and then I go ahead and do it anyway.  I'm such a hypocrite.

I always loved the way Griffey played the game, the grace in his swing, and his humble demeanor.  I've learned my lessons about trusting anything from that era of the game.  A year and a half ago, all the things people are saying about Griffey and PEDS were the same things they used to say A Rod was clean.  We all know how that turned out.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
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