His batting average might be a little lower and he might strikeout more, but he’d still be a 40+ hr per year guy and a hall of famer. Good mechanics are good mechanics

You’re on point with everything you’re saying man more ppl need to hear this!

All the players of yesterday need is, an off-season, a training camp, & todays pitching machines & they’d adjust fine. ⚾️

I don't think pitchers throw harder today than 100 years ago. Maybe a couple MPH average (with technology and training) but not 10-15 like people think/claim. I am confident that hitters see MORE fast pitches today than 100 years ago though. With the way bullpens are used. 100 years ago the 1924 Yankees played 153 games. Their pitching staff threw 76 complete games! Hitters seeing the same pitcher 4 times was common and made it easier on the hitter. Now a hitter rarely gets to face a pitcher 4 times in a game.

Gould's comment is interesting, but much more complex than is shown here. It is discussed in the book, "Setting the Records Straight: How Rod Carew Hit .400... But Not Ted Williams." The book has discovered a way to adjust statistics to fit any era so we can compare their numbers better and many factors that differed from era to era are discussed. The analysis here is great, spot on. A great player in any era is a great player in any era. Players today have tremendous advantages that players of Ruth's era could only dream: hard and shiny baseballs that were easy to see, protective gear from head to toe, lighting that was never in question even during days of filtered light, fields where the outfield wall does not stretch to 500 feet in places -- the list goes on and on. Ruth was the greatest power hitter of all time and no one is close. The man completely changed the game, single-handedly -- there is no other player you can say that about.

Ruth faced Sacheel Paige. I listened to this story by Buck Leonard. He was there. Paige smoked the ball. Ruth hit a home run off him. Buck said Paige greeted him at home plate and congratulated him.

Truer words have never been spoken 👍

Check out the 2023 Yordan Alvarez highlight video that starts with "Blast Off", specifically at the 5:17 mark (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btloaLN_qbnPl40.html), where they show a face on view of his HR against the A's. That lower body move is exactly like the Ruth face on swing of his 60th HR. No weight on the back leg, and that back leg goes behind his body for counterbalance, and then two femur bones hit each other and you'll see a bounce. This is the same move that's taught in all backhand disc golf throws, which is clearly a front arm dominant rotation movement. Alverez has different swing plane in that clip I mentioned because of timing, where his rotation is ahead of the ball, but in other face on clips he doesn't have his hands out in front.

I know I’m a little late to the party here, but this video was straight up awesome 💪 I’ll always defend The Babe! The dude instinctively invented “launch angle” hitting before it was ever so much as a term. Today, even if he wouldn’t be leaps and bounds above the rest (hitting more homers than entire TEAMS), he would still likely be the best in MLB compared to his peers. Not unlike 2001-04 Bonds. A very feared hitter who had superior power and contact. He had a great batting eye and was also drawing lots of walks when nobody else was really doing that. So he wouldn’t be a “35 homers with 200 strikeouts” guy like they often are today

Hitters hit!

Hey Jaime, I’m pretty new to your style of teaching the swing, and I’m curious as to how some people who have implemented it are doing in game? I could definitely see how this would produce more power, but the thing that kind of worries me is that if it wasn’t implemented right, it seems like it would be really easy to come around the ball and topspin stuff.

It's a completely different game today. It used to be football but now it's baseball.

I’ve instituted his philosophy with 3 of my hitters I train. Yes, it’s going to take a lot of instruction to get them from the old way.

I saw bellinger’s hitting coach see your stuff. You’re getting what you want, your recognition. But you’ll never be fairly compensated.

I loved the bit about the parallels between the Babe's and Jr's swing mechanics. I think if you asked just about anyone theyd tell you Jr had a beautiful swing and Babe had an ugly swing, and yet they both produced beautiful results. Babe probably did face some 100 and high 90s in his career. We know he faced Satch. If we transported him to today he would hit. But he'd probably be surprised how many guys fastball sits in that range though. Pitchers in his day were throwing 200 to 300 innings every year. Last year only 5 pitchers threw 200 yet UCLs were popping at record pace. With that being said I have to completely disagree about the larger player pool not being a significant factor in raising the level of the league. The argument isnt necessarily that player pool increases the level of the top end talent(it does but more subtly than its other effects), but that it shrinks the gap between the top end and bottom end of the league raising the average level. Simply put when you have more players those with a better mind for the game, better eye, reaction time, greater natural athletic talents, yadda yadda will feed into the system and crowd out lesser talents as long as they're all fighting for the same number of roster slots. Sorry for the novel but your vid gave me a lot to think about!

The fact still remains the baseball in the Ruth’s time was the national past time every boy in America was playing on a sandlot as my father did every day of his life Ruth grew up swinging a bat seven days a week in the industrial school for boys. They had no other way of entertaining themselves. So I do not see how the talent pool is larger children today are playing soccer basketball baseball all at the same time one of those sports has to suffer.

Great players are great players. Ruth would make any adjustments necessary to play the game in this generation. Why oh why do people under appreciate everything from the past as being inferior? It’s called stupidity.

Can’t we use the same equipment used in the 70s today, to measure pitching speed?

Could the greatest hitter of all time hit today's pitching? Huh...

Not a chance he would be successful today. First off Ruth never played against black players, which means he never played against the absolute best of the best in his era. Second, every single sport has made enormous gains in the way the game is played. Steph curry and lebron would seem like aliens to nba players of the 60’s let alone the 1920’s. I honestly can’t believe anyone would try to make this argument it’s so absurd.