Our love with Wagner

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Posted By: jay behrens

Bryan, someone disagreeing with your opinion is not a personal attack. Questioning your partentage, or something alse about you that has nothing to do with this topic, that is a personal attack.

Since you seems to like to talk about things being normalized (for those that don't know what them means, it's how much better or worse a player is than the league average), let's look at how Ruth fares that way then. All-time ranking in parenthesis.

.........Ruth...........Cobb.............Wagner
OBA +33.0% (2).. 28.0% (7)... 19.5% (28)
SLG +70.7% (1).. 44.1% (13).. 35.1% (24)
AVG +18.8% (13). 34.7% (1)... 24.1% (9)

Based on these numbers, Ruth is far and away the better player when you naormalize their numbers for league average.

you claim Ruth was an overrated pitcher all you want, but you don't go and throw 29 consecutive scoreless innings by being a mere mortal on a good team. If that were the case, there should have been a bunch Yankees pitchers beating that record.

Jay

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