why does Sup Forums make fun of baseball so much?
here is proof baseball is not easy: Michael Jordan who was the best athlete in all of the NBA tried to play baseball and failed
so obviously baseball is hard as fuck and requires way more skill and athleticism than basketball
>tfw Teboq comes and hits .330 with 35 HR's and 120 RBI's in his first season
tebow is a pitcher you fucking leaf
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Jordan did pretty well all things considered. Batted .202 with three home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen bases, 114 strikeouts, 51 base on balls, and 11 errors in AA months after coming off an nba title with not much training. If he chose baseball over basketball I'm sure he would have been great
Lol. Using Tebow's noodle arm for pitching.
That is what you'd expect from a girl if you let girls play baseball
Doubt he would made it to the big leagues.
That is literally in AA. he'd be like sub .150 with like 500000 errors in the MLB
Jordan was made to have a break from NBA because they couldn't keep up his clean image. He was a massive party animal and gambler and his old man was a coke head and was murdered for debts. It was a great PR move for him to quit and then come back, who would have new then he'd win another 3 rings..
This
Barry Bonds would have at least a 3peat if he played in the NBA
Idk I'm a complete casual but Baseball looks fun and technical.
Athleticism wise it has nothing on most sports but spectacle wise it's up there.
A lankster like MJ would have a huge strike zone and relatively little power in baseball, not to mention very few if any skills in basketball translate to baseball. That combined with his very little experience in baseball means he didn't have much chance to succeed. Though rumor was he was making very fast progress, but that's more a testament to himself than to the sport.
Sheer size is usually a significant advantage in most other sports, making it easier to transfer from one to the other. In baseball it's a bit more ambiguous. The fact that so many players can play an almost-everyday sport from early childhood to their late 30s and even their 40s and 50s shows how much more baseball relies on technique than other sports as opposed to athleticism.
those stats are going to give you a career toiling away in A ball
If someone is goat at maths and sucks at literature analysis, that doesnt make literature harder.
Plus the best pure hitter in baseball right now is 5'5
>AA
If those are his stats for AA, his MLB stats would've been absolutely horrendous
The only reason he went to baseball was because he was caught betting on apehoop games and the league didn't want to tarnish the rep of, and lose shekels on, the "GOAT" so he retired and fucked around in baseball before going back to chimp ball
>apehoop
good thread
Knuckleballer
OK OK, tree hockey
The fact he was able to go straight into baseball without years of training should tell how much of a joke sport it is.
here is the thing, Michael Jordan was one of the most genetically gifted and talented athletes in NBA history. He had a ridiculous combination of speed, strength, explosiveness, and was completely focused on being the best in the world at anything he does
this shows how much skill baseball requires, Jordan was by far the best athlete in all of baseball at the time and still was total shit in AA
Baseball is all about skill though, not athleticism.