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Westheim · 01-21-2019, 12:46 PM

Intentional walks were not tracked until whenever, so who knows how many home runs the Babe would have hit if he hadn't drawn 140 walks every year? He was by far the best batter of his generation, and teams were legitimately cautious with him, even though the rest of the Yankee lineups were no easy pickings, either.

Then you have Sosa, whose HR/AB ratio is about 20% lower than the Babe's, who was a living strikeout, finished with a career slugging percentage over 100 points lower than the Babe's, and was merely one of many batters that were all drugged to the gills.

Yeah, tons of stuff to fix there. Foremost the OP's perception of greatness.

01-21-2019, 12:46 PM	#8
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 14,232	Intentional walks were not tracked until whenever, so who knows how many home runs the Babe would have hit if he hadn't drawn 140 walks every year? He was by far the best batter of his generation, and teams were legitimately cautious with him, even though the rest of the Yankee lineups were no easy pickings, either. Then you have Sosa, whose HR/AB ratio is about 20% lower than the Babe's, who was a living strikeout, finished with a career slugging percentage over 100 points lower than the Babe's, and was merely one of many batters that were all drugged to the gills. Yeah, tons of stuff to fix there. Foremost the OP's perception of greatness. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 97 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 * 2071 * 2073 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.