That's roughly the equivalent of going a month in baseball hitting .500.

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And as much as I was already aware of his legendary status, it really hit home the time I decided to do a piece on steroids in baseball in 2004, when the issue was just hitting the fan.

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The older Mr. Halman led a recent wave of Europeans signed to play professional baseball in the U.S. At 16, he was already built like a man and hitting deep homeruns in the Netherlands's semi-professional league.

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Is he the hitting machine of the past two seasons or the guy who was wildly mediocre his first five seasons in baseball when his WAR averaged 0.9 or barely better than a minor league player?

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