My buddy John Lott sent me a link to a report on Roger Clemens’ career. He had ups and downs, like everybody.
Roger’s career is like most baseball careers, with a bit higher level of sustained performance. Small differences in ERA are enough to make a huge difference in season and career statistics. This is as I showed in home run hitting. In Roger’s case, there are some large positive and a few smaller negative variations, but there is nothing at all to show or even suspect that steroids were involved.
Nolan Ryan was the real Superman and we should all know that he was one of the first pitchers to lift weights and train systematically. I have read his book but can’t find it just now as we are in the midst of a redecoration. He trained right through the season and did a lot of good rotator cuff exercises. Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds trained similarly. In fact, it has been reasonable well-established that in order to keep your strength up it is better to train through out the season.
Misreading natural variation or using the dubious testimony of plea bargained witnesses is no reason for any one to doubt this pitchers ability or remarkable dedication to his sport. Of interest to our recent topic of taxes and accomplishment, do you think that anyone chooses a career in baseball based on the Rawlsian maxmin criterion? Would any career of accomplishment even be possible in such a world? Of course not.
My buddy John Lott sent me a link to a report on Roger Clemens’ career. He had ups and downs, like everybody.
Roger’s career is like most baseball careers, with a bit higher level of sustained performance. Small differences in ERA are enough to make a huge difference in season and career statistics. This is as I showed in home run hitting. In Roger’s case, there are some large positive and a few smaller negative variations, but there is nothing at all to show or even suspect that steroids were involved.
Nolan Ryan was the real Superman and we should all know that he was one of the first pitchers to lift weights and train systematically. I have read his book but can’t find it just now as we are in the midst of a redecoration. He trained right through the season and did a lot of good rotator cuff exercises. Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds trained similarly. In fact, it has been reasonable well-established that in order to keep your strength up it is better to train through out the season.
Misreading natural variation or using the dubious testimony of plea bargained witnesses is no reason for any one to doubt this pitchers ability or remarkable dedication to his sport. Of interest to our recent topic of taxes and accomplishment, do you think that anyone chooses a career in baseball based on the Rawlsian maxmin criterion? Would any career of accomplishment even be possible in such a world? Of course not.