Thread: Ohtani or Ruth?
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Old 10-18-2025, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth View Post
I could be wrong, but I suspect that if you just beamed Babe Ruth forward 100 years with his then-level of conditioning, training, nutrition, etc. and put him on the mound or in the batter's box, he would not be nearly as good as he was against his contemporaries. I know people will disagree with that. But to me it's not really the point.
My point is that it was easier for Ruth to run up more WAR against his contemporaries than it is for Shohei to do the same against his since it's a comparative stat.
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