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Raffy should be an absolute lock. He might even finish with 600 homeruns. He said something interesting in his postgame conference on Friday night. Some reporter asked him if he felt slighted that he never really got much respect because he was never the dominant player at any one point.

And he said no, that he didn't want to take anything away from people like Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Juan Gonzalez, etc. because those guys were the best when they were playing and that shouldn't be taken away from them. In a way he was complimenting them. But in another sense, it was almost like he was saying look at all the people who have come and gone and I'm still here.