Fire Mohl!

[BrassBulls12]

1 hour ago, chapelbull said:

He looked like that and still was a stud.  Just think if the balls (and the players) were juiced back then

Are we going to address the pitching?   

[JTrue]

6 hours ago, smazza said:

mays spent 2 years in his prime in army and 14 years in the worst ballpark for right handed hitters.........had he not he would have hit 800 homeruns

http://a.espncdn.com/mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1374309.html

Here's Neyer's quote about a fellow writer who believes "that Mays would have broken Ruth's record if he hadn't been in Candlestick. But he's wrong, and shouldn't be allowed to spout such nonsense without getting called on it."

"To suggest that Mays would have hit 800 home runs, though, if only he'd played in a "fair" ballpark, serves only to damage the credibility of Mays' case, because the informed baseball fan in the 21st century is going to know better."

Edited February 29, 2020 by JTrue

[chapelbull]

1 hour ago, BrassBulls12 said:

Are we going to address the pitching?   

Absolutely ..... he was a pretty darn good pitcher too

[BrassBulls12]

Oh not the fact that he faced pitching that would get cut in college? Or that he played at a time where hitting was given an advantage? 

Edited February 29, 2020 by BrassBulls12

[Friscobull]

1 hour ago, BrassBulls12 said:

Oh not the fact that he faced pitching that would get cut in college? Or that he played at a time where hitting was given an advantage? 

Comparing players of different era’s is an exercise in futility, but my vote goes for Bob Uecker “Mr. Baseball”. 

[CousinRicky]

3 hours ago, BrassBulls12 said:

Are we going to address the pitching?   

Yep, that Koufax, Drysdale and Gibson were so easy.  First home may have been off Warren Spahn.

2 hours ago, BrassBulls12 said:

Oh not the fact that he faced pitching that would get cut in college? Or that he played at a time where hitting was given an advantage? 

Like the higher pitching mound?

Edited February 29, 2020 by CousinRicky

[Brad]

I just hope we learned something from this whole, terrible Astros thing.

 

 

 

[Friscobull]

6 minutes ago, Brad said:

I just hope we learned something from this whole, terrible Astros thing.

 

 

 

Yes, if you ain’t cheating then you ain’t winning.

[chapelbull]

50 minutes ago, Friscobull said:

Comparing players of different era’s is an exercise in futility, but my vote goes for Bob Uecker “Mr. Baseball”. 

Yes on both parts.  

[BrassBulls12]

1 hour ago, CousinRicky said:

Yep, that Koufax, Drysdale and Gibson were so easy.  First home may have been off Warren Spahn.

Like the higher pitching mound?

Ok what about the others? Guys today face pitchers throwing 95 plus with power sliders everyday. Back then they might see 90 once a week.
As for the other point, it was going from the dead ball era to the live ball era. The biggest one being not being able to doctor baseballs. Pitchers in the 1920s were use to being able to throw their fastballs by hitters because they were hard to see and used offspeed and breaking pitches much less. It would have been a rare to see a curve ball when ahead in count. Thus hitters just sat on fastballs they knew were coming. With ball being much easier to see, hitting skyrocketed in the 1920s as pitchers failed to adjust. The hitters of today would have field days. But as someone mentioned, there’s no real way to end this debate. There advantages and disadvantages for every era.