The Yankees vs Kevin Gausman are single-handedly disproving Malcolm Gladwell's ten thousand hours theory.
They could face for for 50 innings a day, every day for 20 years, and he'd be Sandy Fucking Koufax every time.
@realboshek Getting a catcher is the move that cam move the needle more than anything else. If you get Adley, and either start Cabby at SS or being up Lombard, you can afford to keep the McMahon/Rosario platoon at 3B. And then it just becomes a matter of fixing the bullpen.
@JoezMcfLy Objectively, it would be hard if not impossible to be worse than Kei Igawa. But nobody robbed more money from this team than Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Pavano.
Oh, and Pablo Reyes stands out as a guy with zero Major League skills who took up a roster spot for no discernible reason
Why didnβt anyone else of his era come close to doing the same thing? Why was Ruth singlehandedly hitting more homers than entire teams? Why was he the only person to be both an elite hitter and elite pitcher in his era? You say the game was so much easier then, but nobody came close to doing what Ruth was doing at the advent of the Live Ball Era.
The difference between Ruth and the average player of his day was far greater than the difference between any other athlete and the average player of their day, in any era, in any sport.