When you answer this question, give me 2 reasons why he would hit that many homers.
2006-07-03 04:57:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
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1) Smaller Ballparks
2) somebody would recognize he was a good hitter and he would not have pitched
2006-07-03 06:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by jbdancer2003 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I don't think he'd hit too many these days...he'd have been a 95 year old rookie!!!...
Seriously, when the Babe played, he didn't comptete against the best players of his era. There were no blacks, Latinos, Asians. He didn't have night games, never had to face a different pitcher for each at bat ( starters went into the 7th every game or weren't pirchers for too long). Sure he had to travel by train, but never to west of St. Louis, he didn't face the slider, cut fastball. These days the Babe would hit 35-40 homers a year...max.
2006-07-03 05:12:48 · answer #2 · answered by Rick H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ruth could flat hit....As for the "they didn't play against the best"....BS...All the best athletes played baseball back then, they didn't go to the NFL - NBA - NHL - MLS - etc - like today...Back then you had 16 teams not 30 like today...The pitchers back then had stadiums they could pitch in....It was also legal to throw certain pitches back then that baseball has now made illegal because they were unfair to the batters...
All I'm saying is baseball is baseball the superstars from the 20's -30's -40's - 50's - 60's would be superstars now..
Take for example
Ted Williams
1939 BA-327 - OBP-434 - SLG-609
1960 BA-316 - OBP-451 - SLG-645
Seems to me Ted held up pretty well over the years....The game changed, but the player adjusted to the game...Just like the good ones always do....Add to the fact he was an old man in 1960...
2006-07-03 11:05:09 · answer #3 · answered by jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since he was by far the best all-around player in the game if not the greatest hitter every. I would have to think that if he were playing for the Yankees today he would probably have like 1000 hr in 16 years since 1990. If he were playing for the Red Sox, they would have kept him as a pitcher and then traded him so that the owners could make a movie called Ishtar, and we’d have to hear for another 86 years why they can’t win a world series and about the curse.
2006-07-03 06:14:15 · answer #4 · answered by hair_of_a_dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babe ruth would hit around 20 home runs today.
Reasons why:
1) Pitching - pitchers have improved in the last 80 years.
2) Ruth himself - Ruth was out of shape and had problems with booze. Today he might have had problems with other substances.
2006-07-03 06:04:38 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No where as many as he did....all things are relative.....the game is much different today then back then.......they usually kept the same pitcher for the whole game....you getting a chance to see him 3-4 times in a game gives you a big edge....especially after throwing for some many innings and they start to tire out.....in todays game with so many "specialists" ...the odds go to the pitcher......especially with all of the "trick" pitches there are today.....for the record.....if Ruth had batted 3900 times like Aaron did....at his pace...Ruth would have finished with over 1100....he is still the "greatest" ever.....but with his size and big bat......he would never be able to get around on a 90 mile per hour baseball from todays pitchers.........
2006-07-03 08:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by Mickey Mantle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only about 20 or less since in his rookie year he was a pitcher .But is he played OF he would def have at lease 45 . Unlike Bonds Ruth could hit a ball out of the park with out all the cheating.
2006-07-03 07:38:06 · answer #7 · answered by Cody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 in interleague play.....he would have won the rookie of the year award with an 18-8 record and a 2.44 era
They never would have switched him over to a hitter with the stats he had as a pitcher.
He potentially could have won 280 - 300 if he had started in 1990.
2006-07-03 05:28:09 · answer #8 · answered by mattlenny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-05 21:12:14 · answer #9 · answered by valderrama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
less than 714, because back then they had shorter fields, so it was much easier to hit a homer. He would probably have 620-640.
2006-07-03 06:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by mattdoggbball11 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey rick h, get a clue babe ruth was hitting 60 HRs a season when everyone else was hitting 10-15. it's way EASIER to them today than it was in his era, not harder. i say if he were to start his career today he would hit 714,000 HRs
2006-07-03 05:58:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋