Baseball stats are a joke..

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

So I'm bored at work and I'm browsing stats from when babe ruth and ty cobb played...

Never mind they didn't play against black people or Spanish breh's.

Everybody is hitting over .300 with ease. Nobody started hitting home runs until Babe Ruth.. but I'm convinced it's because players wasn't trying to. Then you look at all of these pitchers. They starting 40 or 50 games a season with 30 complete games .... then you had that their K/9 is low as fukk.. which means they couldn't have been throwing pitches in the 90's.

Motherfukkers was swinging at pitches in the 70's or 80's tops. No wonder nikkas was accumulating hits with ease. And no wonder a fat ass like Babe Ruth couldn't hit home runs with regularity. He home run totals stayed high until he was in his late 30's.

Any player that played from the 1800's until the 1950's should have an asterisk on their stats if they are going to get compared to players from the 80's until now. shyt is comical as hell if you really think about it.

Mike Mussina has 10 more K's than Cy Young but pitched almost 4000 less innings

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Athletes in every sport ever get better as the sport and time progresses

Trent Richardson would be god in pre-merger NFL. Joe Namath was a hall of famer, he couldn't lace Matt Staffords shoes....

 

[Frump]

pitchers have been throwing in the 90's for over a hundred years

 

[Miggs]

It's a fools errand to judge player stats from different eras.Only logical way to judge a players dominance is by comparing how he dominated vs his peers against players domination of different eras....

 

[mastermind]

Trent Richardson would be god in pre-merger NFL. Joe Namath was a hall of famer, he couldn't lace Matt Staffords shoes....

This is nonsense

Welcome back, btw

 

[Remote]

Stats analysis in baseball is arguably the most rigorous/accurate of any major sport there is.

The overall level of talent 100 years ago is not what it is today.
But neither is nutrition, medicine, recovery, quality of baseball fields, gloves, cleats or baseballs. I mean you're talking about an era where people could still throw spitballs and foul balls were retrieved and re-used.

A great player 100 years ago would still be a great player today. Just not as dominant.
Would Babe Ruth hit 714 HRs if he played in today's era? Probably not.

But at the same time, would Ken Griffey Jr hit 630 HRs if he was playing in 1916 at the Polo Grounds with a shytty tiny glove, ragged cleats, umpires who did not frown at pitchers who threw at batters, dirty baseballs, no video analysis to study opposing teams, no special surgery with Titanium screws to re-attach his torn hamstring, no ice baths and protein shakes and massages after the game? Probably not.

 

[Frump]

Athletes in every sport ever get better as the sport and time progresses

Trent Richardson would be god in pre-merger NFL. Joe Namath was a hall of famer, he couldn't lace Matt Staffords shoes....

Judging nfl qb stats from this era to any other is useless

It's soooo much easier nowadays to throw the ball because of the rules

Bad and mediocre qbs are completing 60% of passes and breaking team records in yards because they throw all the time

Nfl has become a 7 on 7 drill

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

Most sports are like that the only issue I have with old baseball stats is the exclusion of Brothers and the dead ball era.

 

[CarltonJunior]

50's-70's era basketball is a joke also. Pre-merger football is also trash. No one addresses it though.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

pitchers have been throwing in the 90's for over a hundred years

bullshyt. If they were the case, the strike outs per 9 innings would be higher. The arm isn't built to consistently throw in the 90's over a long period of time. Nobody got tommy john surgery back in the 1800's or 1900's or 1920's.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

This is nonsense

Welcome back, btw

Really. Why does every world record get broken? Every sport team record get broken. Compare Russell westbrook to gail Goodrich.

Trent Richardson :

Hall of famer art Donovan

Breh, athletes in the next era will always be greater than the last. Lebron and KG will be prototypes of tomorrows ballers.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Nobody got tommy john surgery back in the 1800's or 1900's or 1920's.

Why do you think that is, coli genius :lolbaugh:

 

[Filthy McNasty]

Hitting a baseball is hard as hell...I'm pretty sure Babe Ruth's talents would have been evident in any era...dude just had that eye.

And that no blacks or latinos allowed argument might work when discussing old time pitchers who never faced great minority hitters, but you can count the number of great minority pitchers all-time with one hand...pitching has always been dominated by white people. They developed their cac arm strength from throwing frozen rocks at wooly mammoths in the caucus mountains.

P.S. Ruth faced Satchel Paige in an exhibition game and the ball he hit off him is still circling Saturn.

 

[Frump]

bullshyt. If they were the case, the strike outs per 9 innings would be higher. The arm isn't built to consistently throw in the 90's over a long period of time. Nobody got tommy john surgery back in the 1800's or 1900's or 1920's.

The strikeouts per 9 are higher for two reasons

1. because more hrs = bigger paycheck. Guys are going for the fences all the time now even in situational hitting situations that just calls for a basehit or sacfly

2. the game is specialized now with relievers coming in earlier where pitchers only go 6 or 7 innings so they empty the tank and throw hard as they can for those innings rather then lower velocity at times to save themselves to go deeper into a game

And then hitters have to face these relievers coming in throwing gas

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

P.S. Ruth faced Satchel Paige in an exhibition game and the ball he hit off him is still circling Saturn.

And then Paul bunyun chopped a tree and carved a bat out of it, and gave it to Ruth, and john henry laid down train tracks for Ruth to ride out on