Hammerin' Hank

While looking up the career of Frank Robinson after his recent passing, I had to look at Hank Aaron again, who started his career just 2 years before Robinson and retired in the same year.  As weird as it is to say, Aaron is one of the most underrated players in recent memory.  He was truly an incredible player.  He gets lost in the golden age of baseball just a bit because of the fame and flashiness of his contemporaries.  Let's refresh:

Aaron hit 40+ homers an amazing 8 times, and 30+ a ridiculous 15 times.  He hit over .300 14 times and had an OPS over .900 17 times.  He led the league in a meaningful offensive category 34 times.  At the age of 39, pre-steroids, he hit 40 homers in 120 games.  He hit 755 completely legit homers, had over 3,700 hits, and almost 2,300 RBI.  And his career WAR is 2nd among right-fielders, behind only the Babe.  What a player he was.

S

RIP Frank Robinson

We lost a giant of baseball history today with the passing of the great Frank Robinson.  Robinson was one of those players from baseball's golden age that captivated me in my youth.  He was a classic big slugger with huge hands and arms back when hitting 30 homers was a big deal (he did it 11 times).  Always a notch below Mays and Aaron in the NL, Robinson still was fearsome winning rookie of the year in '56, 2 MVP's, a magical triple crown in '66, 2 World Series rings, finished 5th all-time in WAR among right-fielders, and even now is still 10th all-time in homers with 3 of those ahead of him being PED cheaters.  A great, great player.

S

NFL Size vs College- Maturity brings Mass

NFL Size above shows that height is not a change, but the weights are vastly different.

College size
BCS Schools  DL 6 4 260LB
Non BCS  DL 6 3 240LB

It also shows the NFL's love affair with the misconception that QB's look over lineman instead of finding areas of sight.

J.