Hypothetical Question, could Ruth hit modern pitching

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I'm still wondering why anyone thinks today's pitching is better than in the past. Are people throwing harder more consistently, sure. But why does that make pitching harder to hit? It clearly isn't hard to hit a 100 MPH fastball. If it were, you would have a lot more elite pitching in the league. But since 100 MPH is becoming fairly common and being an elite pitcher who throws 100 MPH is not, I think it's fair to assume it's not very difficult to hit modern power pitching.

What I think would be difficult is to hit pre-war pitching. That was a world where everyone could PITCH. Maybe not throw 100 MPH, but they could certainly pitch. The same differences would exist as they do when you're in the box against Aroldis Chapman vs Greg Maddux. Except in the pre-war era everybody had to have a little Maddux in them because they would be expected to pitch 9 innings and go through the order three times. That meant developing craft.