Why is Sosa, a former National League MVP who helped put people in front of the TV in the late-90s during that unforgettable home run record chase alongside Mark McGwire, not in the Hall? Then in 2005 he had gotten injured which meant surgery and rehab.Lots of former MLB stars are immortalized in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, as a celebration of their excellent careers and impeccable off-the-field behavior.Īs of December 2021, Sammy Sosa is not one of those enshrined, even though his numbers suggest he should have a place among the greatest. This mean Bonds was getting intentionally walked many times.
Pitchers started to pitch less to Bonds because they were afraid he was going to hit a home run. Sosa started to suffer with some injuries in the next couple years, which made him miss games as well as a suspension when he was caught using a corked bat. Both Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds both started to decline very fast after 2001. In end you see that McGwire has no home runs after 2000, that is because he had retired from baseball. McGwire finished that year with 70 home runs and Sammy Sosa following with a total of 66 home runs. On the graph we can take a look at the year 1998 and see that both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa beat that record of 61. In 1998 there was a race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire to see who would be the first to break Roger Maris’s record of 61 home runs in a single season. In 200 he had 49 homers and the following year that broke the record, 70 homers. He had broken Mark McGwire’s single season home run record of 70 home runs in a single season. As you can see they were hitting so many home runs.īarry Bonds who played for the San Francesco Giants had the most home runs in a single season, with a total of 71 which happened in 2001. This is when many players were using supplements. This was during the Steroid Era, which took place in the 90s and early 200s. The graph above shows the three MLB players, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa, and their runs between 19.
The graph above shows the home runs hit between 19 from Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds.
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