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re: How would Babe Ruth fare in the steroid era?
Posted on 8/16/16 at 2:16 pm to shel311
Posted on 8/16/16 at 2:16 pm to shel311
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Take a minor league player who was just not quite good enough for the big leagues in today's game. Do you really not think he'd absolutely wreck shop and completely dominate against much inferior pitching in the 20s?
I guess we're arguing two different things. You're talking about traveling back in time and dropping some minor leaguer of today into MLB of 100 years ago. That's not what I'm arguing.
I'm arguing that Ruth had decent size by any era's measure. He obviously hit everything they had to offer back then. Someone with his height and weight with great hand-eye coordination is going to be able to play in the league. I'm arguing that you really don't even need the height and the weight if you have the hand-eye coordination. You look at Dustin Pedroia, Pedro Martinez, Jose Altuve, I'm sure MLB guys can list more players that aren't physically imposing yet have had HOF-level careers. That hand-eye coordination is not something that the modern era developed. It was in us 100 years ago. It was in us 300 years ago.
How good would Ruth be? No way to tell.
This post was edited on 8/16/16 at 2:27 pm
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