CHDS…baseball’s hottest stat
It’s time for baseball to update the record books. Not just the asterisks involved but the newest and hottest stat in all of baseball…CHDS percentage. My guess is the numbers would be quit high. Maybe I ought to talk to my friends at the Society of Baseball Research (SABR ) to see if they could get the stat added. It’s long overdue don’t you think?
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Does it bother you that the game of Baseball has been so tainted by steroids or are you willing to forgive and forget and just get on with the show?
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good cartoon, drew. We can only hope that steroid use isn’t as prevalent as the press make it out to be.
Why not test all sports and determine who is using and who isn’t.
A-Rod is now the villi Manilli of baseball, who thanks to his “injury” is enjoying being out of sight and out of mind.
In the meantime, most of the people on that list from baseball are unknown double A and Triple A players.
the Royals lost today. Must not be any steroids in KC’s locker room.
Have a great day. Remember Strive for excellence, NOthing but your best.
Gene
I would have guessed A-Rod’s CHDS at around .400 before the news broke. Maybe I was being overly optimistic that just one of Baseball’s Allstars over the last 10 years might have been clean.
Who’s left now of your favorite stars that haven’t yet been tainted?
Todd Helton – .500
Lance Berkman – .250
Andres Gallaraga – .300
Larry Walker – .350
Andy Petite – .200 <-Whoops
Yes, I’m a Rockies and Astros fan
Great comments guys!
We had a superstar with .001 CHDS here in Cincinnati, but we booed him out of town because he didn’t always recover from injury fast enough — injuries caused by playing really hard.
I think it’s more relevant than the latest “OPS”, or some such thing I’ve seen/heard paraded around the bases on ESPN and WGN.
LOL great toon Drew!
Great cartoon, I dunno though I have my doubts about Helton.. He hit a wall right at the testing time and used to put up big numbers!!
Drew –
Are we seriously this unable to move past Steroids? NFL players are being rung up on homicides and we’re still hammering on something that isn’t even happening anymore (Naive, I know, but MLB is testing pretty widespread for it now)?
It’s time to move on. There’s lots to cover about Baseball that isn’t steroids, Drew, and I know that you’re better than having to sink to the level of unearthing corpses from the late 90s/early 00s. Show me.
bill – time to get with the times, big guy! These newfangled computers and internets are here to stay, and so is advanced analysis of baseball statistics!
Mark – Helton’s numbers sure did drop around 2002, didn’t they? Funny thing is, his OBP stayed right around the same levels until about 2005-2006, when his back started giving him trouble and he got Crohn’s disease. But what really dropped off was his Slugging percentage, the number of dingers hit every season. Clearly the juice, right?
Well, funny story, in 2002, the Rockies installed a humidor to store the baseballs in, and…