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Old 10-18-2025, 05:32 PM
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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.
Why? Yes there is the whole overlay of baseball being white only, but at the same time with so far fewer teams, and no other major sports to siphon off great athletes, there was arguably more concentrated talent then, no?
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