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re: Could Babe Ruth & Ted Williams crack a starting lineup in today's MLB ?
Posted on 9/8/25 at 3:47 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 9/8/25 at 3:47 pm to PrimeTime Money
Depends on which sports. If you go back to just 70s, quite a few players in many sports would do well today.
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Posted on 9/8/25 at 3:49 pm to Sun God
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He would’ve blown everyone away with 100+ mph high fastballs
No one else had one back then, but he would?
Are you just teleporting him into 1918, and leaving all other variables the same?
If so, that's moronic, as all these types of discussions are.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 3:57 pm to Boston Bob
Ted Williams could hit in any era.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:01 pm to YouKnowImRight
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You know Babe swung a 40oz bat, right? You hand him a 32 oz and he can play in any era.
Agree.
People that didn't watch the video don't realize that the OP Question was sarcasm.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:05 pm to YouKnowImRight
quote:That shows more than anything how far below the pitching of today it was back then….
You know Babe swung a 40oz bat, right?
I think elite hitters from back then could adjust very quickly. If you plucked a pitcher and brought them to today they’d be fricked instantly without the ability to grow up with the modern training and education pitchers have
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:13 pm to lsupride87
I've seen modern baseball players swinging Babe Ruth's bats.
They laughed and said it was like swinging a telephone pole & that Babe Ruth had to have been freakishly strong.
They laughed and said it was like swinging a telephone pole & that Babe Ruth had to have been freakishly strong.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:24 pm to Clark14
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We have these arguments in every sport. It’s a waste of time.
What do you think sports is? But we still enjoy talking about it.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:28 pm to Sun God
He wouldn’t have thrown 100 mph fastballs throwing misshapen tobacco juice soaked blobs that were never thrown out of the game unless they just couldn’t be recovered.
Just like Aaron Judge would only hit 12 or so home runs hitting those balls in parks where the fences were 500 feet away sometimes.
But Skenes and Judge would have adapted just like Ruth and Williams would adapt if they played today and all of them would be elite players.
The problem with these discussions is that people only look at the numbers and don’t consider the other variables.
Just like Aaron Judge would only hit 12 or so home runs hitting those balls in parks where the fences were 500 feet away sometimes.
But Skenes and Judge would have adapted just like Ruth and Williams would adapt if they played today and all of them would be elite players.
The problem with these discussions is that people only look at the numbers and don’t consider the other variables.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:39 pm to lsupride87
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If you plucked a pitcher and brought them to today they’d be fricked instantly without the ability to grow up with the modern training and education pitchers have
if you plucked them immediately from then to now, they may have more success than you think.
hitters today are trained to "see" what pitchers today throw.
so a guy from then throwing something different (different speeds, different windups, different breaks, etc.) might actually have success initially until hitters adjusted to them.
because everything about their timing and mechanics would be off at first.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:40 pm to InkStainedWretch
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Just like Aaron Judge would only hit 12 or so home runs hitting those balls in parks where the fences were 500 feet away sometimes.
I'd have to find it again, but I did a topic here comparing Yankee Stadium of today vs the Stadium in Babe Ruth's day.
even overlayed Judge's 2024 HR spray chart over it.
a ton of Judge's HRs would have been well short of those fences back then.
This post was edited on 9/8/25 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:43 pm to Boston Bob
Guys in the past probably played through arm injuries and other injuries at that. Those guys were tough. They would laugh at today’s generation.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:45 pm to Nutriaitch
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I'd have to find it again, but I did a topic here comparing Yankee Stadium of today vs the Stadium in Babe Ruth's day.
even overlayed Judge's 2024 HR spray chart over it.
found it.
Judge's 2024 Yankee Stadium spray chart on top of late 1920's Yankee Stadium
it's more than the 12 you gave him, but significantly less than the 58 he actually hit in '24
Posted on 9/8/25 at 4:47 pm to Nutriaitch
The biggest difference would be the ball. Not only did Ruth benefit from them juicing the ball a little bit in 1920, but after Carl Mays killed that dude with a pitch, they started making sure new, clean, white balls were always used. Ruth hitting 29 homers I believe in 1919 off the mushballs they were using at the time was as impressive as him hitting 60 IMO, and is confirmation of his greatness.
This post was edited on 9/8/25 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 9/8/25 at 5:37 pm to BZ504
quote:that just means more at-bats and innings went to guys not 100% up for it
Guys in the past probably played through arm injuries and other injuries at that. Those guys were tough. They would laugh at today’s generation.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:46 pm to BZ504
true, thats why they hit balls 580 feet
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:59 pm to Boston Bob
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Could Babe Ruth & Ted Williams crack a starting lineup in today's MLB
Probably. The hand eye coordination of Ted Williams is a genetic gift. With that and modern training and nutrition, he’d be a .320 plus hitter in any generation.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Yet for some reason, in baseball, some people actually think chain-smoking out of shape alcoholics from 100 years ago were some of the greatest players ever and players today could never do what they did.
why do you think if those guys played today they wouldn’t utilize modern medicine, training and nutrition and NOT be chain smoking alcoholics?
And the reverse can be said of modern players if they payed in previous generations. Why don’t you think they would live lifestyle of the times like the other players of that era.
This post was edited on 9/8/25 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:26 pm to InkStainedWretch
His name was Ray Chapman
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:35 pm to Boston Bob
Not sure, but I’d take my chances they could with modern training, technology, nutrition, etc.
Not quite Jordan vs LeBron. Jordan by a million.
Not quite Jordan vs LeBron. Jordan by a million.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:51 pm to Louie T
That is the most ridiculous thing I've read on here and that is including the the gameday rant
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