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My hope of course is that by doing this it'll help the deadball era guys and cool off the live ball era and steroid era guys. It certainly flattened out Sammy Sosa's age 33 season in my league, as he was only able to hit 25 HR, when IRL he hit 49, and had hit 64 the previous year and would hit 40 the year after that, so we'll see. Mark McGwire is now 29, so his huge seasons are still in front of him. Let's see where it all goes from here. 52 at age 32, 58 at age 33, 70 at age 34, and 65 at age 35. I do also have my injury settings on "High (Realistic Modern Day)" and Position Player Fatigue set to "Average". Have yet to see Barry Bonds (or his extremely underrated father Bobby for that matter, or his godfather Willie Mays).

I've had nine 500 HR hitters so far. Frank Robinson (643), Reggie Smith (628), Mike Schmidt (609), Mickey Mantle (566), Gil Hodges (565), Miguel Cabrera (534), Rocky Colavito (518), Dave Kingman (511), and Darryl Strawberry (511). Of the nine, only "Kong" won't get into the HoF. Far too one dimensional for my taste. A .249/.308/.468/.776 slash line with a 119 OPS+ and a 120 wRC+, along with being a below average defender at all four corner spots was enough to keep him out. He spent 16 out of 20 seasons in the NL, so there was nowhere to hide his defense. He only started 20 games at DH in his career, so pitchers on his own team beware.