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Are these cards on steroids?

compared to the 70's the numbers are inflated, pitchers too.

Let's see: weight training, steroids, shrinking strike zone, smaller parks, lively ball, thin handled bats, the rise of the opposite field HR = the decade of the hitter.

And as Yountfan says, the pitchers suffered in proportion, although a few pitchers at the very top of game—many of them pitching well into the next millenium— still managed to dominate.

I'm guessing that hitting will rule in Back to the 90s, at it did in real life.

Did I read somewhere that if you dropped a player and someone else picked him up, that he may have a different season of the 5 than the one you dropped?

Did I dream that somewhere? If not, and that is the case, what about trades? Same or different season?

Must have been a dream. The card does not change in a trade or when dropped and acquired by another team.

Mike

I don't like the mystery card formats, but I got a team just to check the cards, and couldn't believe Bond's 93 season.

He has 1-4,1-5,1-6, solid homeruns. 1-7 is an HR 1-2, weak, but 1-8 is a solid homerun with an asterisk and 1-10 is 1-19, asterisk. Bat this guy leadoff (he's a AA stealer) and he could hit 100 homeruns in a hitter's park.

Bonds has 600 PA's every year, which is nice.

who are the triples leaders. wish strat posted triples on the stat headline w/ 2b, hrs, sbs, etc.

I did A quick run down of the obvious players > $4.50 and found only Finley with two years of 13 and Butler with two double figure seasons in triples. Butler also had nine twice.

looking more for players with freak really big seasons. one shot wonders