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Barry Bonds vs Hank Aaron
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Originally posted by willshad View PostIf Cobb played today he would be kind of like Ichiro. The sabermetric people would all say he is overrated because he doesn't hit home runs or walk a lot."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Aaron, the real HR leader. Consistent, relentless, intelligent, team player."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Originally posted by willshad View PostIf Cobb played today he would be kind of like Ichiro. The sabermetric people would all say he is overrated because he doesn't hit home runs or walk a lot.
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Originally posted by willshad View PostIf Cobb played today he would be kind of like Ichiro. The sabermetric people would all say he is overrated because he doesn't hit home runs or walk a lot.
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--Well it would depend alot on how their approach changed. Wagner was probably the strongest player of his time and upper cutting with the live ball would have been a serious power hitting in the live ball era. I think with a different approach 40-50 HR a year wouldn't be an outlandish estimate. Even keeping his line drive swing and going more for average I'd bet his HR would be in the 20-30 range. Cobb was also a big man for his time and, while I don't think he would be a 50 HR kind of guy he might have hit 30-40 with a different approach in the liveball era - and done that for a long time. Actually he might well have been an Aaron type player.
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I see Cobb utilizing today's tools to put up a .340 avg along with 30 HRs, 40 doubles, 10 triples, and 40 steals for a very long stretch. I,e I see Cobb putting up a career of .335 with 550 HRs 700 doubles, 150 triples, and 650 steals in today's game, assuming a natural decline
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Originally posted by pheasant View PostI see Cobb utilizing today's tools to put up a .340 avg along with 30 HRs, 40 doubles, 10 triples, and 40 steals for a very long stretch. I,e I see Cobb putting up a career of .335 with 550 HRs 700 doubles, 150 triples, and 650 steals in today's game, assuming a natural declineLast edited by willshad; 03-30-2012, 10:44 PM.
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Originally posted by pheasant View PostI see Cobb utilizing today's tools to put up a .340 avg along with 30 HRs, 40 doubles, 10 triples, and 40 steals for a very long stretch. I,e I see Cobb putting up a career of .335 with 550 HRs 700 doubles, 150 triples, and 650 steals in today's game, assuming a natural decline
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Originally posted by willshad View Postmaybe if he took steroids. I see him more as Ichiro with more doubles and triples..but to each their own.Last edited by Honus Wagner Rules; 03-30-2012, 11:41 PM.Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.-Crash Davis
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Originally posted by Honus Wagner Rules View PostYeah, to this day I don't really get why EVERY old time baseball star would put up HUGE numbers in today'a game? No one ever makes those predictions in other sports. Would Red Grange rush for 25,000 yards in the NFL today? Would Wilt Chamberlain average 50 ppg for an entire career? Would Paavo Nurmi run a 3:35 mile today? It's quite possible that the old time stars (Ruth. Cobb, Gehrig, etc ) would struggle to be hit like the 2011 Aaron Rowand. For some strange reason some people do not want to consider that possibility?
Having said that:
I think that Johannes Wagner with his 5'11", 200 lb. physique and violent swing would be an All-Star player at the least. Tris Speaker's adaptation to the live ball when he was over 30 speaks well of his talent and intelligence.
Funnily enough a kid at the Y asked me if I though Michale Jordan could play today !?!?
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Originally posted by Steven Gallanter View PostBaseball, unlike the NFL or NBA, operates under an assumption that players of the past are both better AND somehow have more integrity than the players of today.
Having said that:
I think that Johannes Wagner with his 5'11", 200 lb. physique and violent swing would be an All-Star player at the least.
Tris Speaker's adaptation to the live ball when he was over 30 speaks well of his talent and intelligence.
Funnily enough a kid at the Y asked me if I though Michale Jordan could play today !?!?
stevegallanter.wordpress.comStrikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.-Crash Davis
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Originally posted by Honus Wagner Rules View PostYeah, to this day I don't really get why EVERY old time baseball star would put up HUGE numbers in today'a game? No one ever makes those predictions in other sports. Would Red Grange rush for 25,000 yards in the NFL today? Would Wilt Chamberlain average 50 ppg for an entire career? Would Paavo Nurmi run a 3:35 mile today? It's quite possible that the old time stars (Ruth. Cobb, Gehrig, etc ) would struggle to be hit like the 2011 Aaron Rowand. For some strange reason some people do not want to consider that possibility?
On the other side, when I see Babe being a modern day Steve Balboni, thats a joke. Rowand I doubt very much no I wouldn't consider that. Difficult to believe that the batter with the 5th highest career batting average would struggle today. So you can see, I don't see the Ruth of those days dominating now as he did then but the Balboni, Rowands and some even saying Ruth might be even sitting the bench today, taking it too far.
Lets put it this way, if Wagner, Cobb and Ruth would struggle today, kind of like saying no player from back then could cut it in todays game.
We will never know but I did see a comment some years ago that I think could be fairly accurate dealing with players being moved into other era's in the game. The article stated that most likely if we took the top 5 percent of the best hitters in any era, they would probably hit in any era .Maybe not the same numbers put up in their time but hitting with some success.
I would think Wagner and Cobb in todays game would hit, Carew, Brett, Bonds, put them into any era and they hit.
One thing has to be considered, moving a past great into todays game should not come in todays game as is. Born in a later time they would benefit from some of the advancements in nutrition, training and equipment changes.Last edited by SHOELESSJOE3; 03-31-2012, 03:48 AM.
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Well put, Shoeless. And I never said every player would dominate today. I believe that it's far from it, actually. I have only 10-15 players in history that started from 1880-1950 that would dominate today. That's an extremely small percentage. I just happen to think that Cobb is one of them. And he would be towards the top. He was a big and speedy man back in the day, even without the advantage of today's weight training, nutrition, technology, etc. But more importantly, he was a possessed demon on the baseball field. Give a guy like that today's advantages in training, and he'd still put up big numbers. I.e, I see him being a much bigger, stronger, and slightly faster version of Suzuki. Actually, I've read that Suzuki ran a 3.7 to first base. That is not really all that fast at all. As for my projections, I'm just having fun. But when I run the numbers that I put up earlier, I also have him walking slightly more than before, about 70 times a year in 700 plate appearances. That translates to a .406 ob% and a .578 slug%. That ob% is still 27 pts lower than he had. However, that .578 slug% is 66 pts higher, which seems unjustified. However, Cobb slugged a dead ball in much bigger fields against spit balls, emery balls etc. I may be adjusting his slugging upwards too much. But this is my gut. And this man played 24 years despite not having today's advanced doctors and surgeons to help him out. Thus, I have Cobb putting up some pretty sick numbers for career totals. As for Bonds, I believe that had he not juiced, he would have picked up a few more Gold Gloves about an extra 100 steals, but 150-170 fewer homeruns. That translates to roughly 600 HRs and 600 SB. After all, Bonds took very good care of himself until he started poisoning his body with that junk.
And by the way, one could just say that the greatest from the past would be terrible compared to today's elite players. But if I truly believed that, then guys like Cobb and Ruth wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
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Originally posted by pheasant View PostI see Cobb utilizing today's tools to put up a .340 avg along with 30 HRs, 40 doubles, 10 triples, and 40 steals for a very long stretch. I,e I see Cobb putting up a career of .335 with 550 HRs 700 doubles, 150 triples, and 650 steals in today's game, assuming a natural decline
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