Hope for the Homer

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 September 2011 08:57 Written by Ben Pogany

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Chicks just don’t seem to dig the long ball like they used to. How else to explain the seeming disregard for Jim Thome's entrance into the all-exclusive 600 home run club. And can we really be blamed? The fact is, we did care, we really really cared, and we were all dooped. Taken for a ride by the elusive hand of performance enhancers. If these milestones are to be at all restored, America needs a masher to believe in again.  Though Thome has never actually be caught, having come up through the steroid era is hard to get past. We need a hitter for the new generation, someone to take some of the tarnish off of the four-bagger and resurrect what was once our most beloved sports achievement. Truth is, we may never have another truly suspicion-free ballplayer to hit 600, or even 500 for that matter. But if you’re, like me, grasping at someone to believe in, these ten might not be such terrible options to get behind.

1. Albert Pujols (Age 31) 445 home runs to date
2. Miguel Cabrera (Age 28) 277 home runs to date
3. Prince Fielder (Age 27) 230 home runs to date
4. Ryan Howard (Age 31) 286 home runs to date
5. Adam Dunn (Age 31) 365 home runs to date
6. Mark Teixeira (Age 31) 314 home runs to date
7. Paul Konerko (Age 35) 396 home runs to date
8. Vladimir Guerrero (36) 449 home runs to date
9. Adrian Gonzalez (Age 29) 195 home runs to date
10. Ryan Braun (Age 27) 161 home runs to date