Kemp calls his shot: 50 homers, 50 steals in 2012

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“Anything is possible,” Kemp said Wednesday. “We’ll see. You thought I wouldn’t get 40/40 – and I almost got it. You’ve got to set your sights as high as can be.”

He is 27 years old. He hit 39 home runs last season, stole 40 bases, his team played a 161-game season and he should have been MVP.

But he wasn’t.

Rather than mope, however, and rather than accept a hand-me-down award if it comes to winner Ryan Braun being deemed a PEDs cheat and relinquishing it (“That’s not the way I want to win it,” Kemp said), he called 50-50.

Only two players – Barry Bonds and, yes, Brady Anderson – have ever posted a 50-home run season and a 50-steal season over their careers. Never in the same season.