Adam Dunn

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Bats Left, Throws Right
Height 6' 6", Weight 275 lb.

Debut July 20, 2001
Born November 9, 1979 in Houston, TX USA

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Adam Dunn is the only player in Major League history to hit a ball into another state. In 2005, Dunn hit a home run out of Great American Ballpark in Ohio into the Ohio River. However, that part of the river is owned by Kentucky.

Dunn held the single-season MLB strikeout record from 2004 until 2007, when Ryan Howard broke his mark.

The similarity scores method shows only two Hall of Famers on the list of the ten most similar players to Dunn: Reggie Jackson and Harmon Killebrew. If he's to make the Hall of Fame, he has to strive for the kind of consistency and long career that they showed.

In 2007, Dunn broke an unusual record: the most HR by a player hitting exactly the same number in three straight seasons. He had 40 each year from 2005-7: Mike Schmidt had hit 38 HR each year from 1975 to 1977. Then, in 2008, Dunn hit exactly 40 HR again. This broke the record of Ken Boyer, who hit 24 HR each year from 1961 to 1964.