re: CWS Winner out of the 8 NC's Teams

This is like someone comparing the 01 Miami Hurricanes to the 2019 LSU Tigers.

Athletes have evolved very quickly over the last 20 years .

I think it would go like this based on that of our best teams to date.

2023
2025
2009
2000
91
97
96
93

‘09, ‘23, or ‘25. Any other result would be surprising

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Single game or 2 out of 3?

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Why the down votes? It a question. I guess the salty puss mentality in here doesn’t allow for questions.

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I think it would go like this based on that of our best teams to date. 2023 2025 2009 2000 91 97 96 93

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I call bullshite to that. Skip and Todd Walker both said to not be fooled by what a radar gun is saying. Ben McDonald threw every bid as hard as those throwing in the upper 90s to low 100 today. You guys keep pushing velocity, but we know the guns where they pick up the pitch is different today. They pick it up in the hand as opposed to somewhere right before the plate. That’s why both of them stated look at the reaction time of the hitter. They both did say more guys are throwing harder, but that doesn’t mean that the pitching is better. Command is everything when pitching
Go look at the 91 roster and get back to me when any of these teams compared to those number of major league pitchers. Putting a bat on a fricking is the same as it always been.
That’s why pitchers that are throwing between 85 and 94will beat your arse consistently if they command more than 3 pitches.

Give those teams the same training and equipment as today and I guarantee you with Skip coaching they whip all of them.

When a guy goes to the major league and hits 289 fricking pay attention. Those guys like Fontenot, Todd Walker, and Theriot all of them would fricking play and start over the guys that you have today including Milam and JORDAN Thompson.
You’re talking about a lead athletes and not fricking guys that might make it to AA ball.
Ty Walker was every bit or better than Derrick Curiel as a comparison.

23 over 97,96,91. If they all had the 90s bats I think the pitching would have won it along with crews and others having those bats. It would have been fun.

The good thing is we have had the privilege of watching all these. We are very lucky

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1991didn't have the bats

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Look up Lyle Mouton and Gary Hymel, kid.

They didnt win the CWS But I might take the 87 team. Especially if Joey Belle isnt kicked off. Bell in RF Craig Faulkner catching Jack Voight at 3rd.
Rotation of Greg Patterson Stan Loewer and Mark Guthrie. Barry Manuel and freshman Ben Mcdonald in the pen!

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I like 23 over all, assuming everyone is using the same bats. The stuff being thrown now is way different than 30 years ago. You might see 100 once a month in 97, you might see 3 different guys do it in a night now.


ETA: and that's not to shite on any of the other years, the game is just different now.

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This is usually what everyone does when they compare different era's, and while it makes sense on the surface, the problem is that we don't give the teams from yesteryear the same grace as we do with the teams from today. We say that today's hitters face better pitching and are used to it, and therefore would dominate 90's pitching, but we never ask ourselves what might those hitters from the 90's have done, given the chance to see higher velocity and spin rates more often. Modern baseball players don't drop out of a lab, ready to hit. They have to learn to adjust as they move up the ranks, just like every player from every generation. It's a mental game, more than physical for hitters. So how do we know that those great 90's hitters wouldn't have been able to calibrate their swings to be on time, just as today's hitters, if they saw it all the time?

The point is, it's really not fair to compare different generations. You have to assume too much, and it's why I don't like these questions about who's better. I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss it if they want to, it's just something I personally have no use for.

I can compare the last two or three, but I don't really care to do so, to be honest. It feels like trying to say who's my favorite child, when I'd love them all equally (if I had more than one, which I currently do not). Even though I realize the question was about "best" and not favorite.