Size is weird in baseball - completely distorted by the steroid era. Baseball Reference has Hammerin' Hank Aaron at 6'0" and 180lbs. I'm assuming that was when he was younger. But still - that's the real HR king and he wasn't some hulk. Mickey Mantle is listed at 5'11" and 195lbs. A couple of epic power hitters there.
Dustin Ackley is listed by BR at 6'1" and 185lbs and we think of him a guy with a frame that will just never allow him to hit for power. He's "little Dusty" on Baker's blog.
Let's be clear - I'm not saying Ackley is going to hit 750 HR's or anything. Aaron and Mantle were a freaks of nature. But it is weird that we now only associate hulking McGuire/Bonds size with power. We see guys their size today and immediately classify them as slap hitters.
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