To put this in the proper financial perspective Adam Dunn has a lifetime .243 batting average and a 4 year $56 million dollar contract.
How many people would run sub-3 if they were paid 12 million dollars to do it?!!
To put this in the proper financial perspective Adam Dunn has a lifetime .243 batting average and a 4 year $56 million dollar contract.
How many people would run sub-3 if they were paid 12 million dollars to do it?!!
2:10 was good enough for bronze in the last Olympics. 2:10 = Baseball hall of fame.
Cleveland Park wrote:
I think that running 2:25 is about equal to hitting .250. Most people will never be able to do either of these, but compared to the super stars of the sport they appear to be unimpressive.
Let's do some rough math.
The average MLB team has ten guys on the roster that hit .250 or better and probably another ten or so in their farm system. Multiply that by 30 and you've got 600 guys right there. However, only about two thirds of these guys are American.
From there, you'd have to add in everyone in the college and high school systems that could do it (I'd have to guess at least another 100 or so). Let's put the number at 500 Americans.
As for the marathon, 161 people qualified for the USOT this year, the full distance standard being 2:19. Note that many of the qualifiers didn't even run 2:19 and got in with a half or a 10k.
I also believe that there are a lot more people are trying to run a fast marathon than play major league baseball. For all of these reasons, I'd say 2:25 sounds a bit right and definitely NOT 2:10. Don't let the fact that you're a runner bias you. Give your sport some credit!
I'm revising my above statement. 110 people actually DID hit over .250 ergo it's probably worth about the same as an OTQ.
2:25 is A.
2:19 is AA
2:14 is AAA.
2:12 Call-up to the Bigs.
2:10 is a 250 hitter
2:08-2:09 everyday starter
2:06-2:07 All-Star
2:05 and under Hall of Famer
To many of you are comparing baseball to American marathoning when you should be using the worlds best marathoners.