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Jim Thome Is Thin and Not Very Powerful
By Jamie Mottram | October 1, 2008
Game 163 was classic, especially for those pulling for The Kid, and the big blast that was the difference came off the bat of one Jim Thome. It may prove to be the signature moment of a HOF career, which saw him begin as a slim third baseman and “lefthanded hitter with average power.” Ah yes, ‘92 Pinnacle Jim Thome, we hardly know ye.
PS: “He still needs work defensively.”
Topics: Cardboard Icons, MLB | 3 Comments »
October 1st, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Reminds me of this guy:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/baseball_cards/samples/1987_Topps.jpg
October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 AM
How do you criticized on your own baseball card?
October 1st, 2008 at 12:13 PM
@TF: That’s out of line. There’s zero proof of that in Thome’s case, and not even a whisper by anybody but internet drones.
Thome’s career is the apotheosis of “consistent, never spectacular.” He’s never had the huge fluctuation in numbers that so many of these other guys did. He’s a meat eating farmboy who’s never had that explosion of weight gain you saw in Sosa and Bonds (that picture of him when he’s 22 is fine and dandy, but he’s 55 pounds heavier now that he’s almost 40, and that poundage is clearly concentrated in his gut, aided by his famed country boy diet).
http://insider.espn.go.com/proxy/proxy.dll/insider/magazine/story?id=1807670&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fproxy%2fproxy.dll%2finsider%2fmagazine%2fstory%3fid%3d1807670
Guys like Thome and Bagwell should be shooting up our appreciation scale – consistency and endurance, in all likelihood never aided by any cheating.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/thomeji01.shtml