Since Albert Belle’s career ended rather abruptly after the 2000 season, we didn’t get to see him age all that much in the public eye. He turned 34 in his last season and then just disappeared to wherever crazy, occasionally criminal elite power hitters go. I picture a fortress carved in a foreboding mountain, for what it’s worth.
Today he showed up at Cleveland Indians camp where he met up with former 1990s Indians Kenny Lofton, Carlos Baerga, Sandy Alomar Jr. and manager Mike Hargrove and posed for this picture by Jordan Bastian of MLB.com:
Egads. Lofton looks like he could still lead off for a major league team and Alomar looks like he could be a backup catcher. I have no opinion about Baerga. If you made me put either Mike Hargrove or Belle in a lineup today, based on that pic alone, I’d go with Grover.