whatever happened to Hank Blalock?

[Brock Landers]

Guy used to be a stud 3rd baseman for Texas, never forget the homer he hit of Gagne in the all star game

Guy just disappeared off the face of the earth

[frogsrangers]

Major league pitchers figured him out... couldn't hit lefties worth a damn. Also had a hard time with breaking pitches, was a fastball hitter. Kind of like Pedro Cerrano in Major League. Rangers let him go when they figured Elvis Andrus was SS of future moving Young to 3B.

A personal Hank story...when I was in high school I worked at Rangers Ballpark and Hank Blalock's wife was having their child at the hospital. I worked parking and post games we did traffic control. After the game he comes speeding out of the player's lot in a hummer and ran through the police barricade before having to slam the brakes at the cross walk when about 200 people were crossing the street. The police of course run up to his hummer to arrest the guy and he sticks his head out the window yelling "IM A FUKKING PLAYER!!" at the people crossing the street and the cops. Of course with all the people crossing the street he couldn't go anywhere. So he is sitting there throwing a tantrum and reving his engine and honking his horn and stuff as the police just kind of sit there. Finally he gets his chance to go and peels out and goes 100 MPH down Ballpark Way.

[Brock Landers]

Major league pitchers figured him out... couldn't hit lefties worth a damn. Also had a hard time with breaking pitches, was a fastball hitter. Kind of like Pedro Cerrano in Major League. Rangers let him go when they figured Elvis Andrus was SS of future moving Young to 3B.

A personal Hank story...when I was in high school I worked at Rangers Ballpark and Hank Blalock's wife was having their child at the hospital. I worked parking and post games we did traffic control. After the game he comes speeding out of the player's lot in a hummer and ran through the police barricade before having to slam the brakes at the cross walk when about 200 people were crossing the street. The police of course run up to his hummer to arrest the guy and he sticks his head out the window yelling "IM A FUKKING PLAYER!!" at the people crossing the street and the cops. Of course with all the people crossing the street he couldn't go anywhere. So he is sitting there throwing a tantrum and reving his engine and honking his horn and stuff as the police just kind of sit there. Finally he gets his chance to go and peels out and goes 100 MPH down Ballpark Way.

great fukkin story!

[mh217]

Same thing that happened to Brady Anderson ..no more juice.

[beerman2619]

Might be saying this about Albert Pujols soon . Guy is batting 202 0 hrs with 5 rbi's

[mh217]

Nah pujols has skills..just a rough patch.

[frogsrangers]

Same thing that happened to Brady Anderson ..no more juice.

Don't think Blalock ever juiced, never really had a monster HR year... a bunch of good ones but no great ones. He was just a typical left handed pull hitter who couldn't adjust his swing to make up for pitchers adjusting to him

[mh217]

Maybe so but you don't need to have hit a bunch of homers to have been juicing..whole league was juicing..some bounced back off of it better than others

[pattymayo]

Injuries... wikipedia says he's a free agent. Must be weird to be 31 years old ex baseball player. wonder what he does every day now

[GUMMO77]

Major league pitchers figured him out... couldn't hit lefties worth a damn. Also had a hard time with breaking pitches, was a fastball hitter. Kind of like Pedro Cerrano in Major League. Rangers let him go when they figured Elvis Andrus was SS of future moving Young to 3B.

A personal Hank story...when I was in high school I worked at Rangers Ballpark and Hank Blalock's wife was having their child at the hospital. I worked parking and post games we did traffic control. After the game he comes speeding out of the player's lot in a hummer and ran through the police barricade before having to slam the brakes at the cross walk when about 200 people were crossing the street. The police of course run up to his hummer to arrest the guy and he sticks his head out the window yelling "IM A FUKKING PLAYER!!" at the people crossing the street and the cops. Of course with all the people crossing the street he couldn't go anywhere. So he is sitting there throwing a tantrum and reving his engine and honking his horn and stuff as the police just kind of sit there. Finally he gets his chance to go and peels out and goes 100 MPH down Ballpark Way.

[5teamparlay]

Officially retired living in San Diego:

http://dalzellgroup.com/former-mlb-all-star-hank-blalock-in-a-client-testimonial-video/3425/