It's amazing how hitting 65 home runs elicits a yawn from the national media, but that's what has happened after his encore to his record-breaking 70 homers of 1998. Over the past four seasons McGwire has averaged 61 home runs. If he equals that total againd, he'll rank fifth on the alltime list, just three home runs short of Frank Robinson's 586 bombs. Griffey is going to go right past me and a lot of my home run records. I got there faster than anybody, in terms of having the fewest at bats.
Nobody's that close.
I think those are the records that are going to stand. The first impressions made by Kazuhiro Sasaki and Danys Baez, two international free agents, have been underwhelming. Sasaki was the greatest closer in Japanese League history, but he doesn't seem fully recovered from elbow surgery last year. Baez was an early cut in the Indians' camp. Veteran value Mickey Morandini is a good example why clubs bring extra veterans to camp.