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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3780892, member: 405"]
Don't you think Darryl Strawberry only accomplished a fraction of what he could have done, if it wasn't for the cocaine problem?

His first 9 years were First Round Hall Of Fame numbers.

His last 8 more years he spent as a shadow of his former self, and had only the one really good year for the Yankees in 1998, the year before he retired.

He played hist last eight years as a journeyman.

In 7 of those 8 "lost years", he hit a total of only 31 home runs.  That's 4 1/2 HRs a year.

The one good year with the Yankees, as a big contributor off the bench for the 1998 champions, he hit 24 home runs.

The other 7 years, he did nothing.

In his first 9 years, he hit a total of 280 home runs.  That's more than 31 home runs a year.

If he had done that for the 7 lost years out of his last 8, he would have finished with 521 home runs.

That would have tied him with Ted Williams, Willie McCovey and Frank Thomas for 20th of all time.

He could have been an all-time great.  He won a couple rings, which you're right, very few people ever do.  But there was so much more he could have done, if not for his drug and alcohol problems.
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