He’s the only reason I started watching baseball again. Tonight’s performance has been surreal, basically 10 years ago this sort of game stats would have been unimaginable.
Yeah, by far. Bob Feller wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs until the 1940's although Walter Johnson may have been close. Babe Ruth wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs during his pitching days. Ohtani hits 100 MPH fastballs all the time.
Yeah, by far. Bob Feller wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs until the 1940's although Walter Johnson may have been close. Babe Ruth wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs during his pitching days. Ohtani hits 100 MPH fastballs all the time.
By all account Ruth was throwing in the 80s without the movement we see in modern baseball. He was hitting against guys, with very few exceptions who were throwing 70s to 80s. To add it was in a segregated league without international talent. That said he was the greatest in his era, but likely wouldn't make a modern roster; at least not without some minor league time to allow him to adapt to modern game.
Conversely send current version back to Ruth's era and he's likely hitting 80 HR a season (or getting walked or HPB a ton), have a sub 1.0 ERA with 13-15 K per game. Don't forget he has a 101-102 mph fastball along with 4 to 6 other pitches in his repetoire, many of which they would have never seen.
This was probably the greatest single game performance by one player in baseball history. 3 homers and 6 shutout on the mound is just otherworldly stuff.
Yeah, by far. Bob Feller wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs until the 1940's although Walter Johnson may have been close. Babe Ruth wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs during his pitching days. Ohtani hits 100 MPH fastballs all the time.
By all account Ruth was throwing in the 80s without the movement we see in modern baseball. He was hitting against guys, with very few exceptions who were throwing 70s to 80s. To add it was in a segregated league without international talent. That said he was the greatest in his era, but likely wouldn't make a modern roster; at least not without some minor league time to allow him to adapt to modern game.
Conversely send current version back to Ruth's era and he's likely hitting 80 HR a season (or getting walked or HPB a ton), have a sub 1.0 ERA with 13-15 K per game. Don't forget he has a 101-102 mph fastball along with 4 to 6 other pitches in his repetoire, many of which they would have never seen.
Don't forget the pitching mound was lowered in 1968 so Ohtani the pitcher would have benefited from the higher mound but Ohtani the batter would have been affected by that.
Sending modern day Ohtani back to Ruth's era is not really fair as Ohtani has greatly benefited from modern nutrition and training.
Yeah, by far. Bob Feller wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs until the 1940's although Walter Johnson may have been close. Babe Ruth wasn't throwing 100 MPH fastballs during his pitching days. Ohtani hits 100 MPH fastballs all the time.
By all account Ruth was throwing in the 80s without the movement we see in modern baseball. He was hitting against guys, with very few exceptions who were throwing 70s to 80s. To add it was in a segregated league without international talent. That said he was the greatest in his era, but likely wouldn't make a modern roster; at least not without some minor league time to allow him to adapt to modern game.
Conversely send current version back to Ruth's era and he's likely hitting 80 HR a season (or getting walked or HPB a ton), have a sub 1.0 ERA with 13-15 K per game. Don't forget he has a 101-102 mph fastball along with 4 to 6 other pitches in his repetoire, many of which they would have never seen.
There was also no NBA or NFL to filter domestic talent away and there was no hyper-specialized training. The league was also smaller and thus more concentrated top athletic talent. Ruth probably faced close to the same competition in relative terms. Ruth could have played in John Kruk's place, at the very least.
Flagpole left this place on January 20, 2025 (date of Trump 2 inauguration) and started a fishing channel. No, I'm not kidding.
He was so wrong lol. He said Ohtani didn't have HOF talent. The dude stole 59 bases last year. Yesterday he pitched 6 innings with 10 strikeouts and two hits allowed AND hit three home runs. He's inarguably the most talented player of all time.
Flagpole left this place on January 20, 2025 (date of Trump 2 inauguration) and started a fishing channel. No, I'm not kidding.
He was so wrong lol. He said Ohtani didn't have HOF talent. The dude stole 59 bases last year. Yesterday he pitched 6 innings with 10 strikeouts and two hits allowed AND hit three home runs. He's inarguably the most talented player of all time.
You mean Flagpole was wrrrrrooonnng? I thought he was never wrong?!?