Could you hit today’s fastball with a 54 ounce bat?

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

All I say is put all these pumped up weightlifters back in Ruth's day with none of that stuff used, no special diets, riding lousy trains, no AC so they put their mattress out on the fire escape and slept there and no pampered traveling All-Star kids teams during your childhood. No batting helmets or body armor, brush back pitches, not a new baseball every pitch and work on the farm bucking hay or slopping the pigs. I can't see Trout doing that and he wouldn't be 220 with 6 percent bodyfat. So don't tell me how today's player is better because not one of them could take that.

OK, I'll play along. Players today are better than they were 100 years ago.

[jingram058]

Baseball pitching is baseball pitching. They weren't throwing slow pitch softballs in Ruth's day. Trying to say that the pitching today is so much better is just nonsense. There are just more of them, and they don't pitch the entire 9 inning game. Sure, they would weaken by the 5th or 6th inning. But I believe Walter Johnson was throwing 100 mph. So was Feller, who clocked with some sort of military device. Charlie Root was said to be pretty fast. Many others also. Before Joe DiMaggio died, he said he didn't see much difference in the pitching, just that they lasted longer, both in game and year in year out, and didn't break down back in the day. There weren't as many pitchers and the talent pool wasn't watered down. We've been through this ad nauseam. Believe whatever.

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Baseball pitching is baseball pitching. They weren't throwing slow pitch softballs in Ruth's day. Trying to say that the pitching today is so much better is just nonsense. There are just more of them, and they don't pitch the entire 9 inning game. Sure, they would weaken by the 5th or 6th inning. But I believe Walter Johnson was throwing 100 mph. So was Feller, who clocked with some sort of military device. Charlie Root was said to be pretty fast. Many others also. Before Joe DiMaggio died, he said he didn't see much difference in the pitching, just that they lasted longer, both in game and year in year out, and didn't break down back in the day. There weren't as many pitchers and the talent pool wasn't watered down. We've been through this ad nauseam. Believe whatever.

If you consider the Double A pitching staffs of the Pirates, Reds and Cubs major leaguers.

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by Snowman

OK, I'll play along. Players today are better than they were 100 years ago.

Only because of advancements in medical science. Let's take away all the body armor and supplements and see what happens to the pretty boys who hit a cheap homer and run around the bases throwing kisses like they found a cure for cancer.