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Hello friends. I know you like to make lots of dank may mays about Bryce Harper, but I think we all know that he's the GOAT. Don't you think the Nationals should just trade him to the Yankees alreadt? It's much better than letting him toil away in a city I don't care about. Plus it would be best for his career and Bryce Harper's career is clearly more important than anything else. Besides, he'd look good in a Yankee uniform. Please start a letter-writing campaign to the Nationals asking for this trade.
I'm not Bryce Harper btw.
Lucas Murphy
>Walter Johnson threw 91 >This means Babe Ruth could hang despite the league AVERAGE being higher than the absolute peak velocity of his time
Jose Cruz
ONE POINT FIVE BROORS FAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH
Zachary Robinson
/asp/
Jackson Perry
My dude's. We got bonuses at work, so I'm going to fly out for Red Sox @ Yankees next month! I'm excited!
Oliver Barnes
The only people who think Ruth could handle modern competition are delusional Yankeesfags.
Bonds is objectively the GOAT hitter
Jace Mitchell
Think about it. Guys like Rich Hill, Kyle Hendricks, and Aaron Nola were likely on the above average side of velocity in Ruth's time. three of the notably slow, non meme ballers of our time were what Ruth was teeing off. Imagine Ruth having to hit Chris Sale or Noah Syndergaard
Parker Perry
Is that Bobby Valentine cosplaying as Bryce Harper?
Cooper Nguyen
5 hours till Atlanta gets memed on
Ian Williams
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Xavier Reyes
Sh-shut up We're just getting the losing streak out of the way and now will play .700 baseball rest of the season
Sebastian Rivera
>off day feels
No matter how bad it is, bad baseball is still better than no baseball.
I'm sure everyone can agree on this.
Michael Roberts
F
Levi Garcia
>not watching your AAA and AA team on MILB.tv
Gabriel Taylor
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize they were playing today ONE POINT ZERO BROORS FAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH
Nathaniel Cook
Ruth probably couldn't hang, he was before the advent of the power slider.
Fun fact: You can find when the power slider bloomed in the majors by looking at the last batting champ to hit over .400.
Fun fact 2: Tony Gwynn had a chance to hit over .400 one season, but the season ended early due to strike.
Fun Fact 3: Tony Gwynn is the best hitter in the last 50 years who didn't roid.
Levi White
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Andrew Hall
>I heard you needed some insurance, sir?
Cameron Baker
I'm sure if Ruth were raised in a time of million dollar training facilities, modern sports medicine, modern training techniques, less travel time, more realistic working schedule, and was groomed to play baseball his entire life like literally every single modern baseball player, he'd be fine among modern players.
ignoring Ruth's talent doesn't mean it wasn't there.
Michael Moore
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Parker Scott
Theres actually a good amount of Knights games on CSN. Shame I dont have csn though
Leo Rodriguez
His daughter is cute.
Dominic Miller
gib prospects pls
Jackson Jackson
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Andrew Ward
Reminder that the Dodgers were so bad in the 1960s they moved home plate up so their hitters can hit homeruns
Nathan Reyes
Verlander is 38 years old and still has 5 years/$23 million left on his contract. Fuck that bullshit.
Nathan Foster
no U gibe prospects
Caleb Howard
if we are talking about just average, then yes, Gwynn is the king.
But Ichiro and Rose were both more productive hitters over their careers. Gwynn only had 5 seasons where he played more than 150 games and he only had five 200+ hit seasons. Pete and Ichiro both had ten 200 hit seasons each.
Kayden Foster
Petes stats are invalided by his gambling he paid pitchers to throw him meatballs
Matthew Sullivan
It's cold in the D
Nicholas Scott
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Adrian Hernandez
>give prospects for a mid 30's pitcher who is owed 70 million until 2020
Logan Wilson
>Gwynn is the king >not even top 20 in batting average >not top 30 in BABIP
Jackson Russell
Bro Verlander is back to Cy Young idk what you guys are complaining
His contract is getting eaten too so don't worry
Isaac Hughes
Nigga everyone above Gwynn played in a time before color photography. That should tell you all you need to know.
David Clark
Who was the first bad black player?
Jacob Thomas
>Color Photography Eighteen Seventy-Seven
Christopher Turner
Like this is what you're getting for the rest of the year
Jack Anderson
> being that guy > about fucking baseball stats
Jaxon Garcia
Widespread color photography, then. It's impressive how badly you can miss the point when you're trying to be the "achkyshully" guy.
Jace Perry
>conditions I deem fair
Jonathan Reyes
Now do OPS, ISO, and wOBA
Jaxson Ramirez
kek why the fuck did you blot out the dates?
Easton Davis
>players played before color photography, so their stats don't count
I don't think you understand what that means, but ok. Gwynn is top 20 all time, which means that guy was wrong to begin with, and the original claim was that he's the best hitter of the last 50 years. Most of those guys were dead 50 years ago.
Daniel Kelly
Who /offday/ here?
Luis Taylor
Because that isn't from this year
Asher Harris
Cubs need it they fucking suck ha ha
Adam Roberts
>players played before segregation, so their stats should be taken with a massive grain of salt Fixed that for you
Brayden Hernandez
Look at his last postseason starts. He is BACK!
Alexander Nelson
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Liam Ward
don't bother with /mlb/ and stats, it's almost never worth the reply
Charles Lewis
Clayton Kershaw is a really really clutch pitcher.
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>Conditions I deem fair Travis Ishikawa confirmed for top 5 player in history
Ayden Baker
Not really looking at average or any stats in particular, just overall quality for a lineup.
But to be fair, Tony played 20 years and only hit under .300 once, his rookie year (he hit .289). I could see arguments statistically for ichiro or pete, but Gwynn is the best batter I've ever seen play, especially in terms of technique and approach.
Ichiro and Rose are great, both should be hofers. Would Gwynn be the goat if he hit .400 in a complete 1994 season?
Adrian Reed
Almost finished a bottle of wine and really feel like watching baseball right now. What's a goat video I should watch.
Liam Hernandez
Madison Bumgarner is a really really clutch pitcher.
I have zero confidence in Avila actually trading Verlander for decent prospects.
Dominic Miller
>mfw doyer fans think alex wood is a good playoff #2 near me
Xavier Bennett
His two rings seem to agree
Parker Stewart
And Cody "The Literal GOAT" Ross?
Julian Cox
This is what was talking about. Everybody ahead of him lived in a world without 85 mph sliders and 90 mph cutters, and before sophisticated bullpen management
Can someone spell the word "exposed" in 10 different languages? Thanks.
Jason Baker
You realize players in the MLB played integrated games all the time back in those days during the offseason, right? And there's no record of the stars ever performing consistently worse in those games, right?
/mlb/ loves to talk shit about star players from baseball's history, without actually having much knowledge on baseball's history.
David Myers
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Henry Evans
>oh they did fine in exhibition games, that clears everything up!
Do you know how retarded you sound
Brayden Gonzalez
history channel-tier shitposting, my clearly intoxicated friend
Adrian Baker
Kershaw Wood Hill Urias Jansen Baez Turner Bellinger Seager Grandal
Christian Wright
Google translate is a thing
Caleb Smith
>all the time Yea a couple meaningless barnstorming games in the offseason is totally disputes his point
Liam James
I feel like Gwynn is similar to Griffey in one respect, that if both stayed healthy, they could have done so much more. The .400 average season would be a great footnote in history, but that alone would not change his production. You can have all the right tools mechanically, but if you can't produce, it only hurts you in the end. from his 30 year old season to his 41 year old season, he averaged only 115 games a season. if you take out his last two outlier seasons, the average is still only 127 games a season. Gwynn missed too much time. He was still an amazing talent and a generational hitter, but Rose and Ichiro have him beat based on pure stats alone. Rose had 8 seasons where he played 162 games, including a season where he was 41 years old.
I agree with you that Gwynn had, perhaps, the best approach of all time. but he just doesn't have enough production to be called the best.
Levi Richardson
>it's a dodger general
Dylan Clark
name a better reporter than alanna rizzo
Alexander Murphy
best fans in baseball also have the best posters on sp
Cameron Reyes
QUICK CHOOSE
A. THE WHOS WERE RIGHT TO TRADE AWAY SALE AND QUINTANA FOR BUSTS AND TANK
B. THE WHOS SHOULD HAVE KEPT SALE AND QUINTANA AND COMPETE
