Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever"
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To say Ruth hit off bad pitching is incorrect, The pitching back then was better than it is today. Team ERA in 1920 only 5 teams were over 4 and 1 team over 5. 5 teams under 3 the best team ERA in 1920 was 2.32. Some of the teams only played 50 plus games, Games played varied 16 teams played 154 or 155. The other 6 were from 60-124 Games played. If Ruth was hitting of Janitors that is some pretty good Janitors he was hitting off of. Why was Ruth the only one hitting with power if the pitching was so bad. That is without all the knowledge the pitchers have today.
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Othani is a good player. He isn’t even close to the best player on his team.
Trout
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@johnutah312_xbl said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Othani is a good player. He isn’t even close to the best player on his team.
Trout
To be fair trout is still miles behind Ruth
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@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@johnutah312_xbl said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Othani is a good player. He isn’t even close to the best player on his team.
Trout
To be fair trout is still miles behind Ruth
How would you know? One you never saw, and the other if he’s not playing the NYY you probably never saw either. Going by your Jeter comments, any and all arguments about baseball you make are invalid. Not to mention your ability to hit MLB pitching…
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@yankblan_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@johnutah312_xbl said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Othani is a good player. He isn’t even close to the best player on his team.
Trout
To be fair trout is still miles behind Ruth
How would you know? One you never saw, and the other if he’s not playing the NYY you probably never saw either. Going by your Jeter comments, any and all arguments about baseball you make are invalid. Not to mention your ability to hit MLB pitching…
How would I know? Because I can read stats
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Kieran still out here baiting people
Oh he's so mature, he's going to college now! So you know he's all grown up and mature being a college freshman. Still out here baiting, same old Kieran.
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@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@yankblan_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@johnutah312_xbl said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Othani is a good player. He isn’t even close to the best player on his team.
Trout
To be fair trout is still miles behind Ruth
How would you know? One you never saw, and the other if he’s not playing the NYY you probably never saw either. Going by your Jeter comments, any and all arguments about baseball you make are invalid. Not to mention your ability to hit MLB pitching…
How would I know? Because I can read stats
And like so many have pointed to you, to no avail because you’re an all time stubborn know-it-all still wet behind the ears, the stat comparisons are flawed.
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@raesone_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Kieran still out here baiting people
Oh he's so mature, he's going to college now! So you know he's all grown up and mature being a college freshman. Still out here baiting, same old Kieran.
I took the bait earlier this year. It’s truly insufferable now.
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I mentioned it in another thread, but Ruth is 16th all time in H/9 as a pitcher. He is also 17th in career ERA, 16th in W/L%, 13th in HR/9 allowed, and is top 100 career in many pitching stats. He had a pitching WAR of 8.8 in a season. So many of you seem to think like "oh yeah, he also pitched some. That's cute". He was the best LHP in baseball for a 2-3 year stretch. You all completely downplay his abilities as a pitcher.
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@raesone_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Kieran still out here baiting people
Oh he's so mature, he's going to college now! So you know he's all grown up and mature being a college freshman. Still out here baiting, same old Kieran.
It’s not bait it’s stats buddy
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It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history.
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P.S. This is the same guy that says he could hit major league pitching so consider the source when you argue with this guy.
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@KILLERPRESENCE4
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@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@misfits_138_1_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@dewrock_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@go4stros25_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Lol yankee fans "but but babe Ruth, but but but in 1920...."
Babe Ruth played 20 years before Jackie Robison broke the color barrier. The talent in the league today is unreal. Might be baseball blasphemy, but I wouldn't be shocked if babe Ruth was just a run of the mill DH in today's game.
Athletes in every sport have gotten bigger, stronger, and faster since we started tracking these things. Why would mlb pitchers be any different? I know there were probably a few guys back them that could probably hit the low 90s, but call me crazy. I just don't think the average pitcher, Whitey Willabe McGroover, fresh off the farm was bringing a 97+ to the plate like the majority of pitchers are today.
Ruth was the best of his time. He has left behind one of, if not the biggest, legacies in professional sports. That's his place. Can't compare players 100 years apart
And yet we have stats that do just that.
Think of how sick Ruth, Cobb, and the early greats would have been if they knew about the benefits of good nutrition, weight training, had video access to every pitcher and all of their at bats, and didn't have to get jobs in the off season?
Also, the health concerns of alcohol and tobacco use, and poor diet.
Remember, weight training was taboo in all sports expect football until the late 80's.
I think those guys would be just fine playing today.The thing is a lot of principals of modern swing mechanics come from Ruth too, his stance looked weird but a lot of the weight shifting and techniques along with it were decades ahead of its time
Is that why the put the fatso’s waddle in the game? It was just ahead of its time making him only slightly slower than Ohtani.
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Really hard to compare players over 100 years apart. The level of competition was nowhere near what it is today. If they matched up head to head today, Ruth might have a hard time hitting Ohtani, and Ohtani would likely bomb off of Ruth’s pitching.
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@charterbus_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@misfits_138_1_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@dewrock_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@go4stros25_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Lol yankee fans "but but babe Ruth, but but but in 1920...."
Babe Ruth played 20 years before Jackie Robison broke the color barrier. The talent in the league today is unreal. Might be baseball blasphemy, but I wouldn't be shocked if babe Ruth was just a run of the mill DH in today's game.
Athletes in every sport have gotten bigger, stronger, and faster since we started tracking these things. Why would mlb pitchers be any different? I know there were probably a few guys back them that could probably hit the low 90s, but call me crazy. I just don't think the average pitcher, Whitey Willabe McGroover, fresh off the farm was bringing a 97+ to the plate like the majority of pitchers are today.
Ruth was the best of his time. He has left behind one of, if not the biggest, legacies in professional sports. That's his place. Can't compare players 100 years apart
And yet we have stats that do just that.
Think of how sick Ruth, Cobb, and the early greats would have been if they knew about the benefits of good nutrition, weight training, had video access to every pitcher and all of their at bats, and didn't have to get jobs in the off season?
Also, the health concerns of alcohol and tobacco use, and poor diet.
Remember, weight training was taboo in all sports expect football until the late 80's.
I think those guys would be just fine playing today.The thing is a lot of principals of modern swing mechanics come from Ruth too, his stance looked weird but a lot of the weight shifting and techniques along with it were decades ahead of its time
Is that why the put the fatso’s waddle in the game? It was just ahead of its time making him only slightly slower than Ohtani.
This is a post that only serves the purpose of being argumentative. He cherry picks stats to make an argument that can’t be made. He doesn’t take into account the fact that when Ruth played the balls were different the bats were different the fielding gloves were different. Hell the catcher was called hind catch when Ruth was playing. He honestly believes the level of competition was the same. He even makes overtures to how Ruth modernized the game based on his batting stance. This guy lives to make silly arguments because people bite. I made the mistake of replying to him fortunately he hasn’t responded as I’m not interested in debating a topic a silly as this one. But your post did make me chuckle.
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@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history.
We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that
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@smalltownkid1990 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
Really hard to compare players over 100 years apart. The level of competition was nowhere near what it is today. If they matched up head to head today, Ruth might have a hard time hitting Ohtani, and Ohtani would likely bomb off of Ruth’s pitching.
If Ohtani was born in 1900 he’d constantly be injured, he’d wouldn’t know how to throw a splitter and probably couldn’t throw over 90 MPH and he would be considerably worse in all aspects of the game. Goes both ways, which is why it’s stupid. You compare guys to the era they played against, and the greatest against their peers is the greatest ever.
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@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history.
We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that
This right here. And like I said, I'm willing to hear arguments that past era stats don't carry as much weight compared to modern era. But I'm going to need more than just, "Trust us. Those guys playing with Ruth were a bunch of janitors or farm boys just picking up a glove for the first time." If they want to develop a better measure way of measuring and comparing players throughout baseball, then go for it. But conjecture isn't the same as statistics. The best statistics we have say that Ruth was the best of all time. They say that Ohtani is having a nice year. They don't say that it is one of the greatest seasons of all time.
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@dewrock_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history.
We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that
This right here. And like I said, I'm willing to hear arguments that past era stats don't carry as much weight compared to modern era. But I'm going to need more than just, "Trust us. Those guys playing with Ruth were a bunch of janitors or farm boys just picking up a glove for the first time." If they want to develop a better measure way of measuring and comparing players throughout baseball, then go for it. But conjecture isn't the same as statistics. The best statistics we have say that Ruth was the best of all time. They say that Ohtani is having a nice year. They don't say that it is one of the greatest seasons of all time.
You’re absolutely right. If it was so easy back then, why was Ruth on a completely different level from everyone else? Ruth was hitting home runs before people could hit home runs. And it’s not just bWAR, every single variation of the stat that tells us how valuable guys were say that Ruth is miles above what anyone has ever done, especially Ohtani. But people want to label Ohtani as the “best season ever” because it gets clicks and people like to think the guy they got to watch was the best, despite numbers and better judgement
