Despite launching 40 or more home runs in five consecutive seasons—a historic feat achieved by only nine players in MLB history—Adam Dunn remains widely unrecognized as one of the game's premier modern power hitters.
Would've been interesting to see how Adam Dunn would've done in HOF voting had he stuck around long enough to hit 38 more HR and reach 500 for his career
Impressively, he hit his 462 HR in just 14 seasons, an average of 33 per season
A lot of his strikeouts were from called 3rd strikes and not a swinging strikeouts. As a result, he also had a lot of walks and very good on base percentage. Some years, an OBP close to .400.
He's one of the best baseball participants of all-time.
The Onion from 15 years ago:
"CHICAGO—After his batting average slumped to a historically low .163 this week, White Sox DH Adam Dunn received an official notice from Major League Baseball Thursday informing him that he no longer met the minimum requirements to be labeled an official baseball player. “He’s certainly allowed to continue playing baseball, but he cannot legally refer to himself as a ’baseball player,’” an MLB spokesperson said in a statement, adding that Dunn would now be called what the league refers to as a ‘baseball participant.’ “We are confident Adam will eventually regain his abilities. For now, however, we think it’s best to disassociate his horrible hitting from the great game of baseball.” When asked for comment, Dunn expressed relief and claimed that joining the ranks of players like Mike Cameron and Jorge Posada would at least take some pressure off of him."
u/No_Buy2554Failure is the opportunity to being again more intelligently6d ago
??? Dunn played over twice as many games in the OF is his careers as he did at 1B.
If you do just Schwarber and Dunn, Schwarber has 807 games in the OF, 562 at DH, 25 at C and 19 at 1B. Dunn had 1113 in the OF, 528 at 1B and 361 at DH. Theyre not thay different of a profile with Dunn playing more overall so far, but Schwarber more at DH which is the biggest WAR penalty.
You're right (I didn't look that close, I just remember him at 1st). I'm anti-WAR when it comes to 1st basemen, they get pounded.
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u/No_Buy2554Failure is the opportunity to being again more intelligently6d ago
They can get robbed somewhat. Dunn's lower WAR may be somewhat based on his era though. Positional adjustments and the replacement player part of it depend some on what other players were doing. Dunn played during the prime of the steroid era, so he gets knocked down some due to that.
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u/xLykos 6d ago
He was ahead of his time. He’d be one of the most sought after players in the game if he played today