All Things 2025-26 Minnesota Twins Off-Season Thread

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On This Date in 1973: In an effort spearheaded by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley, American League owners vote 8-4 in favor of adopting the designated hitter.

Tony Oliva hit the first regular season home run by a DH off Oakland’s Catfish Hunter on Opening Day.

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TRF Guy said:
On This Date in 1973: In an effort spearheaded by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley, American League owners vote 8-4 in favor of adopting the designated hitter.

Tony Oliva hit the first regular season home run by a DH off Oakland’s Catfish Hunter on Opening Day.

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Obviously Tony-O and Rodney. Who's #4?
 


coolhandgopher said:
I thought of Griffey also. Pujols and Trout have great arguments. Ohtani could make this question irrelevant 5 years from now.
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Pujols certainly has steroid allegations.

I'll be curious how far the "no steroid allegation" crowd takes this argument. Pujols was accused of steroid use by Jack Clark. According to Clark, Pujols' long-time trainer (Chris Mihlfeld) told him he injected steroids into Pujols. Of note, Mihlfeld also trained other players who were busted using steroids - most notably Jason Grimsley.

I have no opinion whether he did it or not, but I'm guessing Pujols gets voted into the Hall by a lot of the folks that are "no steroid allegation" because they don't believe the allegations.

One last note, there were certainly whispers about Verlander too. He was throwing 100 MPH, signed a big contract, and started throwing 92 - kind of a Brady Anderson thing (neither ever tested positive). I don't know if that's a real allegation but certainly eyebrows raised.
 



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