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Congratulations to Jim Thome. Sure, I always found it annoying when he’d step in the batter’s box and point his bat at the pitcher, but on Monday night, he became only the 8th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 home runs. That’s quite an accomplishment.

To put it in perspective, the Major League Wiffleball all-time home run king, Mike Breen, hit 58 home runs in his career. Jim Thome has hit more than 10-times as many home runs, and he’s still going. He’s only a few home runs away from moving into 7th place on the all-time home run list. And he hasn’t been linked to steroids like a few of the other guys have.

On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez, or “Al”, as Joe Girardi referred to him, skipped Yankees team photo day and went on to hit his 600th career home run off Shaun Marcum, the only active Major League Baseball player that spells his first name the same way that I do.

While that sounds impressive, if you look at the numbers a little more closely, you’ll see that Major League Wiffleball Home Run King Mike Breen is a much better home run hitter than A-Rod.

A-Rod homers on average every 14.5 at bats, which is disappointing in comparison to Mike Breen who averaged one home run every 5.28 at bats throughout his career.