This guy went from hitting 60+ homeruns, to not even close to hitting a baseball. Steroids or not, this guy looks so lost at the plate, sometimes he isnt even in the area code of making contact.
Can anyone remember anyone going from being so good to so bad, so quickly?
Yes.
Any of the guys who QUIT taking steroids.
Kinda like Samson, cut off his hair, lost his power.
Those 'roids have just as much mental effect as physical.
Ruben Sierra, Canseco, Sluggo for the Yanks, Juan Gonzalez, most every team has a least one guy who was demolished after giving up the juice.
Hell, Julio Franco STILL looks like he is doing something.
Sosa started going bad while in Chicago, and yeah, he would swing at pitches that weren't even in the same zip code.
Raphael Palmiero comes to mind, as well. And, I can't remember that MONSTER for the Yanks, haven't heard from him in a while, also, who was that killer-hitter on the A's ? Plus, that 3rd base guy from the Astro's, Ken Camineti? Killed himself, right?
Steroids = all in the name of being able to hit it out of the park (can't do it without them).
Sosa. Can't see him getting any better, his best days are long gone (IMO).
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