Negro league stats infuse with MLB stats thoughts?
250 sats \ 4 comments \ @BlokchainB 12 Jun Stacker_Sports
I know the Ty Cobb fans gotta be upset but me honestly I don’t feel strongly either way. The game is always changing the stats and record books will always be dynamic. New stats will be tracked others deleted or not cared about as much.
I have a super hard time hitters of old will be hitting at those averages today when pitching is much more powerful and sophisticated. Would Ted Williams hit .400 in this era a baseball? I highly doubt it.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jun
I am not a big fan of it. The negro leagues had some incredible players who went on to be stars in MLB but the average talent level was not equivalent to MLB at that time. If they are going to do this then guys like Ichiro should have his Japanese stats included.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB OP 12 Jun freebie
Yeah but that was out of the Negro league control. Did anyone white play there? What’s to say MLB had the top talent at the time when league didn’t base talent solely on merit
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jun
Agree it is not the negro leagues fault but when they did integrate over the next 15 years only 85 negro league players ever played in mlb. With approximately 400 total players in mlb per season. I don’t think there was ever more than 30 negro league players at a time.
Maybe teams weren’t signing many black players even after integration but one would imagine that if the leagues were equivalent there would be more than 30 out of 400.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jun
I usually like seeing stats get merged when leagues merge (which isn't exactly what happened with the Negro League).
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