Roberto Clemente, could he compete in today's MLB?

Yes.

Absolutely.

He would be an elite defender in any era and he had 3000 hits in a pitcher friendly era. Imagine what he could do with a smaller strike zone, lower mound, and chin music being frowned upon.

Make someone’s team???!

He would be THE STAR of any team he played on.

Who the frick said Babe Ruth couldn’t compete today? That might be the stupidest thing I’ve heard in a really long time……and I live in New Orleans.

I’m not sure if he could. He dominated his era in an unreal fashion. There was not a close second. We talking Tiger and Wayne doninant. But come the late 60’s and after I don’t think he could. But I still think he was the GOAT because every player during his era had the same chances as him going up against the same pitching every year and he was just SO better than everyone else.

Nailed it.

I think any great player from yesteryear would do just fine in today’s game with modern technology and training.

Best arm from right field I’ve ever seen. I hated the Pirates but it was fun to watch him play.

Clemente was stupendously great, I own his Mitchell and Ness jersey, and I agreed with the premise of the question, but “dominated his era?” Let’s not get out into the ether here.

Willie Mays was better, IMO the best position player ever born of a woman.

Henry Aaron was better.

I think Frank Robinson, an incredible player who in a lot of ways is forgotten by history and horribly underrated, was a little better overall.

I think another forgotten and underrated player, Al Kaline, was his equal in everything including throwing.

Clemente is just placed on a bit of a pedestal because he played in a way that drew eyes to him, because there are for some reason a lot more “Sports Center highlights” before there were such a thing of him doing incredible things on the field, because he won a World Series pretty much single-handedly in an era where the world really did stop for that Series and because of the way he went out, his career interrupted before it should have been over when he was senselessly killed (read up on the history of the plane he got on, it should never have been licensed to be in the air and if the owner hadn’t also been killed in the crash he should’ve been charged with murder) trying to help his fellow man.

Nah. A 3k hitter would be dogshit today