re: How would Babe Ruth fare in the steroid era?

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they were. there is actually a documentary on netflix called Fastball that goes through the history of different best fastball pitchers of their time. Walter Johnson is specifically documented. Johnson was actually the first pitcher to ever have his pitch speed measured "In 1917, a Bridgeport, Connecticut munitions laboratory recorded Johnson's fastball at 134 feet per second, which is equal to 91.36 miles per hour (147.03 km/h), a velocity which was virtually unique in Johnson's day," While that number is probably not exact, one would at least surmise that pitchers of his day, on average, were considerably slower than today. If Johnson was the fastest throwing pitcher, clocking in at 91 MPH, imagine what an average pitcher was throwing

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Even if you're just close, that basically means just about the entire league's hardest pitches were under 90, but if we dropped Ruth into today's game, we're supposed to believe he'd fare just fine? That makes no sense to me.

The pitching is world's better, like nothing he would have ever seen.

It's page 2, and I feel the need to add my disclaimer again, that I have Ruth as the GOAT, because I judge it by dominance of your contemporaries. But you can't drop any player from the '20s into today's game and expect them to have any kind of chance IMO.