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Originally Posted by BaldBil
Aaron was always quiet and understated and played in a small market. Most of the attention went to Willie Mays in the NL and Mantle in the AL. Up until 1971 or so no even knew Aaron had a shot at Ruth. Mays was the man until then and he got old very suddenly. He was also competing with in the NL with Musial, Matthews, & s. Snlder in the 50's then McCovey, Cepeda, Brock and others in the 60's.
His MO was consistency. The others had the real monster season. Henry just went about his business and put up the numbers. You could compare him to Manny Ramirez these days. Manny is overshadowed by Bonds, Arod and the like but when all is said and done his numbers will be up there with the best.
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Excellent point on the Aaron situation. He was always overshadowed by all the other big name stars.
As for A-Rod. I have a feeling that the next year or two will really tell the tale of if he has a chance or not.
If he decides to stay with the yankees where he will normally have people hitting before and or after him that are real threats he will still keep being pitched to.
Now lets say he leaves NY to go to a lesser team for more money, KC for example, they don't have anyone to hit behind or before him that would really cause a threat when he gets walked. So he might stop seeing good pitches. Not saying that he would stop getting HRs but you could see that his #s decline because of that.
We will have to see...