We are truly in the “live ball” era.

But, amongst all the homeruns, deep off the wall doubles and triples, and Runs Batted In reached deep into the triple digits; are these milestones really that impressive in baseball anymore?

I mean 3,000 hits; 200-hit seasons, 30 homerun/40 stolen bases in a season are being achieved more frequently now than ever before.

Another one that is more key is homeruns.  Especially hitting 600 homeruns.  Currently we have seven “members” of the “600 homerun club”.  Four of the seven have joined within the past eight to nine years.

It took when Babe Ruth retired in 1935, through Willie May’s career in the 1950s/1960s and to the end of Hank Aaron’s career in the 1970s to get three in this club.  Forty years to get three.

To say the least, they are another three other active players that are within another 50 to 150 homerun to join this “elusive” club, (Manny Ramirez at 555, Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols, both at 462).

To be in this blub is typically means that are going to be in Copperstown when your done playing.

But that is now.

Let’s look at 500 homeruns.  There was a time when 500 homeruns were the milestone to reach.  But when more people started to achieve this milestone, the standard was raised to 600 to challenge today’s hitters.

Getting to 500 is still good, although everyone else is joining this club at a rapid pace.

I bet in the next decade to 15-years, 600 homeruns will be just like that.  It won’t really cut it anymore because hitters will continue to get better and dilute the meaning to the this number and to join the club.

Soon, this milestone will be 700 homeruns then 800 soon after that and so on and so forth.

The meaning behind these milestones like hitting 600 homeruns is good because everyone can’t do it.  However, with athlete’s getting better everyday, every minute, every second; it becomes difficult to keep the meaning of a such a feat constant without changing it in someway.