Adam Dunn

Yankees · Post by **Yankees** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:37 am

So I was lucky enough to be at the Nats new stadium this past Saturday, and witnessed Adam Dunn's 300th career home run. The crowd gave him quite a few very nice ovations, and the home run was massive (missed clearing the seats in right center field by 1 row!).

For a power hitter that has remained largely above steroid suspicion, Adam sure has taken a lot of heat over the years from baseball types who don't necessarily believe in the value of "3 outcome" ballplayers.

Tim Kurkijansdasldk;j wrote a pretty interesting article a week back about strike out hitters - and I thought Adam had some pretty insightful thoughts. Among them was that he could swing at the first or second pitch more - but not getting his pitch to hit, and only having two pitch at-bats would not be as beneficial to his team as getting a walk, making a pitcher throw a lot of pitches, or, godblessit, finding his pitch and hitting it 450 ft.

As a Nats fan, and Dunn's SIM owner, I have an absolute blast rooting for this guy day in, and day out - and he doesn't let me down. He's on his way to his 6th consecutive 40 homer year (and would be his 2nd highest ops year), on the worst team he's ever played on, in a pitcher's park. He's hit 300 homers before he turned 30 - and is well on his way to at least a 500 homer career. The fact that a contending team wouldn't take a chance on him this past off-season is a joke. I've talked to other owners about Chipper, about Bradley, about Carp, etc. - but the one guy who's not going anywhere is Adam Dunn.

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:24 pm

I was aching for Theo to sign Dunn in the offseason as Papi's heir apparent (Deal off lowell, youk at 3b, Dunn at 1b) and took a fair amount of ridicule for the suggestion from my Sox fan friends. Obviously it didn't happen, but with the struggles Papi has had, I sure wish it did. I've loved him ever since I drafted him when the league started out (I took him right after missing out on Beckett, who I had been really hoping to get).

And as much as I loathed my time in Cinci, being able to catch Dunn in a ballgame on TV was one of the highlights.