I’ll match skill sets any day. MLB athletes are just as talented if not more. Raw strength does not count for as much. If it was so easy you’d have more players like Bo Jackson playing in both leagues but they do not. I dare say standing in the grass on 3rd and taking a hard liner off of the bat of an Adam Jones, Giancarlo Stanton, or some other power hitter and reacting to it and making a catch is just as hard if not harder than a receiver running a pattern and knowing the ball is coming. Same said about hitting a 96 mph fastball that moves during it less than half second journey to the plate. I doubt 1% of NFL’ers can do it.
In the end it is apples to oranges.
The skill set for baseball at the highest level is much harder to acquire and execute than that of the other major pro- team sports. Part of the problem MLB is dealing with today is the sport looks so easy to play in an era of instant media gratification but in reality is so difficult at the pro level.
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