This doesnt make sense.
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I asked Google the following question.
Which is a better achievement in Major League Baseball... 2,500 hits or 400 Saves.
This is what came up.
The Case for 400 Saves (The Elite Specialist)Reaching 400 saves is an incredibly narrow bottleneck. To achieve it, a pitcher must be a dominant closer for roughly 10 to 15 years, averaging 30–40 saves per season. Because relief pitchers throw fewer innings and face intense, high-leverage pressure every single appearance, their margin for error is razor-thin. The sheer rarity of the 400-save club—featuring icons like Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman, and Kenley Jansen—gives it a massive aura of authenticity.
Case for 2,500 Hits (The Everyday Grind)While 3,000 hits is the gold standard for immortality, 2,500 hits is a phenomenal marker of an elite, durable baseball career. Achieving 2,500 hits requires an everyday player to average 150 hits a season for nearly 17 years. It rewards staggering longevity, the ability to avoid major injuries, and the skill to adapt to pitchers over nearly two decades. Active greats like Freddie Freeman hitting this milestone underscore just how much sustained excellence it takes.
The Verdict -
If you value exclusivity and peak role dominance, 400 saves wins out because so few humans have ever done it. If you value everyday grit, longevity, and counting volume, 2,500 hits represents a more grueling, year-in, year-out physically mentality.
So, if 400 Saves wins out, why do we have an Altuve Milestone card and only a Supercharged Chapman card?
And dont reply "because Chapman already had multiple 99s."
So do a bunch of other players.
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I think they’re holding the card for something else. A chase, extreme program, etc. I think we get it, just not how we have gotten other milestone cards.
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I’m assuming this is an AI response. Gemini maybe? Something to consider is that maybe that this AI response is wrong. Not sure I agree with that verdict. Words matter. When you use such vague terms like “better achievement,” you never know what you’re going to get with AI. What the heck does “massive aura of authenticity” mean anyway?! Yes 400 saves is a more exclusive club but there are 9 batters per team and just one closer per team. There are going to be way more players with 2,500 hits than there are closers with 400 saves so the 400 save club’s exclusivity is not as meaningful as AI thinks it is. Also saves weren’t recorded and pitchers weren’t managed like they are now throughout Major League history. All of this makes players with 2,500 seem commonplace compared to 400 saves but I don’t buy it. I’m not going to look into this now but I’d like to see how many players whose career started after 1980 have 2,500 hits compared with post-1980 closers with 400 saves.
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@markemark_NSW He said he asked Google so that’s a Gemini answer.
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I think they’re holding the card for something else. A chase, extreme program, etc. I think we get it, just not how we have gotten other milestone cards.
This is the most obvious answer. Certain players, favorites among the playerbase, are usually saved for something more special than a player program. SDS knows that people will play an inning program if he is a boss, or do a collection if he is reward, or play a ranked or weekend classic if he is awarded there.
But everybody wants put on their conspiracy hats and assume something nefarious. Or they are look for a new reason to bash SDS.
