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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Why on earth would you bat Ohtani lead off? Surely he would generate more runs batting 3rd or 4th. It seems willfully stupid. As far as Adam's too soon comment, at 50 combined WAR, Ohtani has a long way to go to catch Ruth at 180 and obviously is never going to get remotely close to that. Just one measure of course, but by the numbers Ruth was a better pitcher and a much better hitter, in relative terms. That takes nothing at all away from Ohtani.
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Remember though, that WAR compares you to your contemporaries, so that brings you back to the level of competition being much flatter (at a higher level) than in Ruth's day.