Daniel Murphy Spoke About His Charge On Using Steroids In MLB

Daniel Murphy, the Mets postseason hero is though hitting homers like Barry Bonds but there is certainly no chance that he’s living on something.

The rumor basically spread due to his high rated postseason performance which was beyond everyone’s expectations and any explanations. This Mets second baseman is 30 year old contact hitter with an averaged one home run every 54 at bats in his past seven year career.

Murphy has hit seven homers in 38 at-bats. According to Cy Young caliber picthers, among all his homers four of those were off of to the elite. The lookalike Johny Galecki is playing Barry Bonds. What’s more surprising is that some fools, trying to understand incomprehensive, accused Murphy of taking steroids.

About Daniel Murphy

Whilst before being a second baseman, he played first base, third base, and left field as well. He remained an MLB all-star in 2014, 2016, and 2017.

Meanwhile, he won the National League Championship Series MVP Award in 2015 on his way to leading the New York Mets to their fifth World Series appearance in franchise history. With this win, he settled a record for consecutive postseason games with a home run with six.

About His Early Life

Daniel Murphy was born in Jacksonville, Florida to Tom and Sharon Murphy. He began his career playing baseball at the age of five. And played his high school ball at Englewood High School in Jacksonville.

He then attended Jacksonville University where he played college baseball for the Dolphins. In his college times, Murphy was regarded as a strong hitter but below average fielder though as a freshman.

Daniel Murphy mostly played third base but also slotted into the right field to minimize defensive liability. In 2006, being a junior, Murphy posted a .398 batting average on the way to being named as A-Sun Baseball Player of the Year.

Daniel Murphy’s New Power

Undoubtedly, it is very unlikely that Murphy has been still a concealed superstar even after seven big-league seasons. Baseball players at the age of 30 have remarkably improved on their previous career wRC+ by between 40 and 60 points in just one season where they tended to lose 36 points of batting average, 38 points of on-base percentage, and 80 points of slugging percentage the next year.

But overall on an average rating, they were still better than they all had been ever before. Even after a year of initial breakout, they used to hit 15 points higher for wRC+ than their career average had been previously.

This indicates that Daniel Murphy is a far better hitter now than he was in New York.  Considering the loss personally inflicted on the Mets already in head-to-head competition, also emphasizes that he may well end up becoming the key to the NL East title for the Nationals. Not bad for a player, where most thoughts will come back in October back to their home.

Daniel Murphy’s Fangraph

Daniel Murphy On Steroids

Daniel was surprisingly accused of using steroids for his high-rated postseason performance. These rumors were however spread by some fools and creepy guys.

Aaaaaaaaaand we just had our first caller to WFAN & @MikeFrancesaNY accusing Daniel Murphy of taking steroids. Gotta love sports talk radio.

— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) October 22, 2015

@MikeAndMike I question Daniel Murphy's authenticity he is a contact hitter who at 30 averages 9 homers a year…Steroids!!!

— John Petersen (@JohnJPetersen) October 22, 2015

Daniel Murphy is on steroids😠 he only hit 14 home runs during the regular season, no one like him goes on a homerun hitting spree like that

— Advik (@Advik__) October 22, 2015

Seriously someone make Daniel Murphy take a piss test the dude is on steroids

— Clint Andresen (@heyyoclint) October 22, 2015

Such an act is remarkably stupid and foolish. Any individual who thinks that Daniel Murphy’s nine-game Babe Ruth impression is an attribute of using steroids definitely doesn’t comprehend the drug’s simple logic.

Generally, steroids are good at increasing upper body strength as well as speeding up recovery time after workouts. Steroids do not help with hand-eye coordination or bat speed. This drug doesn’t help in recognizing a slider’s spin or timing a swing on a 98-MPH fastball.

However, neither to deny that steroids had helped baseball players in the past but they did it so just by turning them turning those players from Bruce Banner into Incredible Hulk. That’s it!

When you have a look at Murphy, he will physically appear as frightened as a peanut seller. The accusations that he is on steroids just because he didn’t pass the eye test and the smell test either.

Every player in the MLB is tested twice at least in a year for performance-enhancing drugs. However, random tests are also available for such causes. So why would a player known as a power hitter put his career on the line by taking steroids especially when he’ll be looking for a new contract at the season’s end? He wouldn’t.

If steroids were the reason for Murphy’s surge then its signs would have appeared in the regular seasons. Daniel Murphy did hit a career-high in home runs this year where it was only 14. It was typically more than his early career high.

The Mets hired a new coach who is well known for helping lefties to find their strength stroke. Simply, the chances of Murphy taking steroids or any other PEDs are as similar as the chances of him hitting seven home runs in this postseason.

The miserable thing about his fans is that they are only focusing on Murphy is on something instead of enjoying his mind-boggling run. Few things are more fun in sports than an impossible but unstable force.

There is no doubt in the fact that an aggressive pivot like Daniel Murphy is incredibly right in its own right which has been made more incredible than the fact that he’s 32 years old.

Murphy has become a must-watch player who is capable of overshadowing even Bryce Harper after his consistent seven full seasons in the majors.

Therefore, if Murphy continues to pop off like he did in the year 2016, he is certainly going to cement himself as one of the decade’s best baseball stories.

Reference Link:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/murphda08.shtml