Twins first baseman designated hitter Jim Thome is a mere four home runs away from one of the benchmark statistics in baseball; 600 home runs. There are only a handful of players in the history of the game who’ve reached 600, and as of late it seems more like an indicator of who was on steroids in the past decade instead of who was a premiere power hitter. Guys like Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, and Barry Bonds have reached this mark in the past decade and arguably none of those guys will ever reach the Hall of Fame. So what about Thome?
Thome has never had his name thrown around in the HGH/steroid discussion. While it’s tough to be 100% sure that any player during the past two decades was completely clean, Thome has never had his name surface. One would assume that, because of this, it’s pretty clear that Thome should go to the Hall because he’s been clean and he’s reached a landmark in 600 homers. But not so fast.
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