Bloomquist's fast start

uneasy rider — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:43:08 -0000

Last year Willie Bloomquist showed that while he lacked nothing when it came to grit and stick-to-it-iveness, he defied reason by only managing to get one extra base hit in 165 at bats. This past off -season he signed with KC and already has seven times as many extra base hits.

It’s time for me to begrudgingly acknowledge the elephant in the room: an aging hitter who puts up numbers this much better than his career averages is going to immediately generate suspicion that the numbers are not natural, that perhaps he is under the influence of some sort of performance enhancer. And since I have been unable to draw any absolute parallels between his prodigously improved number of extra base hits and his new ballpark’s hitter-friendliness, it would be foolish to dismiss the possibility that "other" performance enhancers could be part of the equation.
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It will be a wonderful day when we can see a great start by a veteran like Bloomquist and not immediately jump to speculating about whether steroids or PEDs are involved. We certainly are not at that point yet, however.

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Bloomquist's fast start