The article references Babe Ruth as in a player who is an excellent power hitter and throws a 100+ MPH fastball.
1 posted on
04/07/2017 1:07:28 PM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Play him as a fielder AND a closer.
2 posted on
04/07/2017 1:11:13 PM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
To: C19fan
LOL, according to our Marines who served in the Pacific, the Japanese didn’t care much for Babe Ruth during the war!
3 posted on
04/07/2017 1:11:35 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
To: C19fan
4 posted on
04/07/2017 1:16:44 PM PDT by
Mears
To: C19fan
5 posted on
04/07/2017 1:18:15 PM PDT by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: C19fan
I thought Sataharu Oh was Japan’s Babe Ruth!
7 posted on
04/07/2017 1:21:29 PM PDT by
gr8eman
(People too dumb to understand what the word "country" means will never have one!)
To: C19fan
15-5 as a starter, 11 strikeouts per 9 innings with 22 HR and 67 RBI’s... wow, now that’s an anomaly.
Those are some freakish stats.
8 posted on
04/07/2017 1:23:17 PM PDT by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: C19fan
I know Shohei Otani is a real guy. But having SI report on him this close to April 1st reminds me of Sidd Finch.
To: C19fan
Not only would Madison Bumgarner strike him out, he would hit a homer off of him.
20 posted on
04/07/2017 3:44:32 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: C19fan
“Extending his right arm, he manipulates the balls through the air . . . “
This is epic, prize-winning crappy writing.
Try to envision exactly what the author is saying.
I’ll give you a few moments. Consider all possible variations.
As a description of a pitch, it is mind-bogglingly imprecise. One would suppose when he extends his right arm to be more or less relevant to a sports writer, his editor, and the handful of still-interested readers of said sports writer.
Sports Illustrated pays their writers money, do they? And their editors?
25 posted on
04/07/2017 9:18:01 PM PDT by
Chad N. Freud
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