As a follow up to the previous note on McGwire about the greatest HR hitters in the 1st 4 years of their career
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S, since you know more about this stuff than anyone I have ever met. I did this breakdown for me.
Babe Ruth leads all of the greats HR hitters at 177 hrs in 4 yrs. He spent half of 1919 pitching in-15 games with a 9-5 record.
Without pitching in 1920-23 he had 189 in 4 yrs. (Kiner at 168 was closest. )Ruth hit 11% of the all of the Home Runs in the AL from 1919-1922.
No 1 in Career Slugging by a large margin at 69% William 2nd at 63%
No. 1 Career Slugging plus on base 1.16. Williams 2nd 1.11
9th career ba at .342 = 2nd on Base behind Williams 471 to 480.
4th in Runs Scored.
2nd in RBI's
2nd in Runs created behind Bond.
Not in top 100 in At Bats. 1449 less than Bond, 3449 behind Aaron.
3rd in HR behind these two.
I am still shocked at the pitching record. Started 163 Games. Half of the people ahead of him started about 20games more.
Career 94-46 - 67% winning % 10th highest all time.
Post Season 3-0. .87 ERA
Career ERA 2.28 16th all time.
Hits per 9 innings 7.17 - 7th all time.
I would like to know if Gretzky dominated to this level.
He is in a league of his own.
J
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If I can find some time, I might do some Gretzky research. I expect he's in the same ballpark as Ruth. Looking at Ruth's stats makes the hair on my neck stand up. Just ridiculous. Best lefty pitcher in baseball, best hitter in baseball. If only we had some video of the young Ruth for people to see instead of the old fat guy. Nobody would believe it.
S
6'2 185 when he was pitching.
They would list him at 6'3 now.
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