In 1961, the American League expanded with the Los Angeles Angels and the second version of the Washington Senators. The original version of the Senators moved to Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961.
I agree with former MLB Comissioner Fay Vincent when he said, “In track and field - another sport that thrives on statistics - if an athlete is busted for PEDs, his name and his records are erased from the record books as if they never happened. Three world record-holders in the 100-meter dash have been stripped of their records after they were busted for drugs. They don't even get an asterisk. They're just gone.”
There are a number of factors to consider when looking at different eras. There is a bigger pool of potential pitchers globally in the last 50 years, to slow down hitters. Starting pitchers are more quickly replaced by not just relief pitchers, but _quality_ relief pitchers. It is easier to play a schedule full of night games when compared to sweltering day games. And players spend a couple of hours on airplanes instead of long days on trains.
Such an underrated point that never gets brought up. Add to that the fact that the opposing pitchers were much more likely to go head hunting because they don't want to go back to a job in the coal mines, it makes the intimidation factor much higher. I'd much rather face a pitcher who throws 100, but probably isn't out to hurt me, with helmet and full padding, than someone who tops out at 90, but will throw at my unprotected head.
@@big8dog887 very few would have hit 90 back then. They also pitched entire games, no highly specialized relievers or closers throwing 102 fastballs and 93 mph sliders. Ruth also faces the same guys over and over again. I wouldn't be surprised if Judge saw 5 times as many unique pitchers this year than Ruth did when he hit 60.
@@spyroninja You should watch the documentary "Fastball". Pitch speed today is measured differently than it was in the past. The ball is clocked closer to the pitcher now, it used to be clocked closer to the plate. So today's pitch speeds appear faster. When Nolan Ryan was the first pitcher clocked over 100, that pitch would have clocked at 108 with today's methods. Bob Feller would have clocked at 107. All of that is beside the point I'm making, though. I don't care if you're throwing 70, if you hit me in my unprotected head, you're doing damage. I won't dispute that Judge is facing nastier stuff, but with the helmet and extra body armor, he's also a helluva lot more comfortable doing it. He can concentrate more on hitting mechanics without worrying about survival. None of this is to put down Judge, but we shouldn't dismiss the challenges the Babe faced, either. He was on the field when Ray Chapman was killed.
@@spyroninja Plenty of guys threw hard back then. They just didn't throw max effort four seamers on every pitch. They changed speeds, worked corners, and planned to go deep into ballgames... Including Ruth himself. The strike zone was much bigger. So were most parks. And the ball was not as lively. Lots of todays sluggers would find their 'home runs' turning into fly outs.
Babe Ruth did it in 154 games in 1927. & he hit more home runs (60) in 1927, than the team HR totals, of all the other American teams. - When Ruth finished with 714 home runs. 2nd place (was also one the game’s greatest) was Gehrig, with under 400 HRs. If you don’t count Gehrig, Babe had over Twice! as many home runs, as the 3rd “best ever” hone run hitter (at that time)
I’d be interested to see the different types of baseballs and their effects on home runs included somehow in a home run comparison video. Keep everything from this video and add the balls to it.
The topic of juiced baseballs is an interesting one. I would love to visit the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica where people actually stitch the balls together. One has to wonder about that whole process.
In addition to hitting 60 home runs in 1927, Ruth batted .356 for the season. While Judge's 2022 season was impressive, he hit 40 points less than Ruth. While many of his records have been surpassed, no player can ever compare to Babe Ruth as a slugger. He hit for power AND average. He was a pretty good pitcher at the beginning of his career, too.
I love the game! You can be a normal sized person and do well. You do not have to be tall as God or big as a bull to play. Size does matter but so does fielding and base running. Texas league hits still drop and you will find your self on first base trying to distract the pitcher. Watching his shoulder or the sole of his shoe and you are gone…another base stolen. What a game!
Of course Ruth. No Bonds! Even Hank Aaron whom had 41 more home runs, but he had 2500 more plate appearances. Someone here said: no helmet, no gloves, or padding. They had wollen uniforms , that weighed 30 pounds wet( sweat)! All day games, only train travel.
Yankee stadium may have benefited left handed hitters, but Ruth still hit more homeruns on the road then at the stadium (367 - 347). Add to that, Ruth wasn't hitting 300 ft homeruns, so the ballpark dimensions don't really seem relevant to a player like him.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Yankee Stadium's dimensions are irrelevant. Dimaggio would have hit more homeruns at a Shibe Park or Crosley Field. Yankee Stadium had a much farther center-left field than those places.
@@thebaseballprofessor What I wrote was they really don't seem relevant to a player like him (meaning Ruth). Other players at Yankees stadium did benefit or get hurt by the dimensions. Maris was helped, and as you said Dimaggio was hurt. A player like Mel Ott was definitely helped playing at the Polo grounds as he hit about 63 percent at home.
I love judge...wish we got him a little earlier to see what he could of done in a long 15 years career playing every day..and healthy for most of it....I would say Judge would hit 500 hr easy...but there is really no comparison with Babe to anyone...I mean bottom line is that Hank and Barry 1000s of more ab's...I mean he really didn't hit the 1st 5 years of his career if he had the amount of ab's that that they did....he probably would have hit 850-900 Homer's
@John McGee I see "could of" all the time in UA-cam comments and it drives me nuts, but I don't think it's the posters as much as it's voice recognition software that confuses "could've" with "could of". Of course, I could be wrong, I type.
Ruth had more homers on the road than he did at home. Plus unlike Roger Maris, the Babe was not a pull hitter. Many of his home runs were to all fields, including the deeper parts of Yankee Stadium. Plus Ruth had hit many tape measure home runs. Read two books by Bill Jenkinson, " The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs: Recrowning Baseball's Greatest Slugger" and "Power". He does an enormous amount of research on the Babe and many of the great tape measure home run hitters in mlb history. So, regardless of the park the Babe played in, he would have hit a ton and based on his road stats he might have hit more. No doubt he lost some homers to long fly balls hit to the opposite field in old Yankee stadium. No doubt with segregation in place back then that there would have been a much greater competition for sure as it was proved with the influx of the great Black players of the 1950's and 1960's many of whom were never given a chance to make it as there still remained a quota of black players allowed on a club. And of course some clubs like the Yanks, Phillies and Red Sox took a long time to even have a Black man as a starter, let alone on the team in any capacity. The Red Sox for example could have had Jackie Robinson and later Willie Mays! To Maris' credit though he hit more homers on the road 31 and 30 at home. So, neither Maris nor Ruth relied as heavily on their home parks as you indicate. Maris only had 7 more plate appearances than the Babe. 698 to 691, which is negligible. As is the fact that Maris hit his 60th homer in slightly few plate appearances than the Babe. While there was indeed a dilution in overall talent, hitting and pitching in the expansion years of 1961 and 1962, if you look at who Maris hit his homers off of, it was in large part off off of pitchers who were already in the majors prior to 1961. While there's no doubt that hard throwing pitchers who don't have to go more than 5 or so innings and get spelled by equally hard throwing relievers. There is one factor today that makes this a hitters game more than even conditioning and ped's and smaller parks and a tighter wound ball-- it's the fact that the inside part of the plate has been taken away from the pitchers. They can no longer fight for control of the plate like they did in Maris' and the Babe's time. To quote Red Schoendienst, ”He (Bob Gibson) couldn't pitch today because they wouldn't let him. The way he'd throw inside, he'd be kicked out of the game in the first inning, along with guys like Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax.". I'd also add Tom Seaver, Gaylord Perry and most pitchers of the previous generations of baseball. The fact that pitchers can't really back hitters off the plate and go in and out like they used to, makes a hitter's life much easier. I can't imagine the likes of Mays, Mantle and the great DiMaggio who came so close to actually hitting more career homers than he had career strikeouts!
I agree. The Sosa, McGwire & Bonds totals were juiced numbers along with Sosas corked bat. Probably still a juiced ball too like they started using after the 1994 strike. Judge will get a monster contract even though he's hurt a lot.
I made an error at 3:41. The Florida Marlins joined the National League in 1993, not 1998.
It's ok, the Rays and Marlins are basically the same team anyway
In 1961, the American League expanded with the Los Angeles Angels and the second version of the Washington Senators. The original version of the Senators moved to Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961.
I agree with former MLB Comissioner Fay Vincent when he said, “In track and field - another sport that thrives on statistics - if an athlete is busted for PEDs, his name and his records are erased from the record books as if they never happened. Three world record-holders in the 100-meter dash have been stripped of their records after they were busted for drugs. They don't even get an asterisk. They're just gone.”
There are a number of factors to consider when looking at different eras. There is a bigger pool of potential pitchers globally in the last 50 years, to slow down hitters. Starting pitchers are more quickly replaced by not just relief pitchers, but _quality_ relief pitchers. It is easier to play a schedule full of night games when compared to sweltering day games. And players spend a couple of hours on airplanes instead of long days on trains.
The internationalization of baseball, as you say, is a big different between then and now.
Great video, Professor, nice to have you back
Ruth: No batting helmet. No gloves. No padding.
No blacks
Such an underrated point that never gets brought up. Add to that the fact that the opposing pitchers were much more likely to go head hunting because they don't want to go back to a job in the coal mines, it makes the intimidation factor much higher. I'd much rather face a pitcher who throws 100, but probably isn't out to hurt me, with helmet and full padding, than someone who tops out at 90, but will throw at my unprotected head.
@@big8dog887 very few would have hit 90 back then. They also pitched entire games, no highly specialized relievers or closers throwing 102 fastballs and 93 mph sliders. Ruth also faces the same guys over and over again. I wouldn't be surprised if Judge saw 5 times as many unique pitchers this year than Ruth did when he hit 60.
@@spyroninja You should watch the documentary "Fastball". Pitch speed today is measured differently than it was in the past. The ball is clocked closer to the pitcher now, it used to be clocked closer to the plate. So today's pitch speeds appear faster. When Nolan Ryan was the first pitcher clocked over 100, that pitch would have clocked at 108 with today's methods. Bob Feller would have clocked at 107.
All of that is beside the point I'm making, though. I don't care if you're throwing 70, if you hit me in my unprotected head, you're doing damage. I won't dispute that Judge is facing nastier stuff, but with the helmet and extra body armor, he's also a helluva lot more comfortable doing it. He can concentrate more on hitting mechanics without worrying about survival. None of this is to put down Judge, but we shouldn't dismiss the challenges the Babe faced, either. He was on the field when Ray Chapman was killed.
@@spyroninja
Plenty of guys threw hard back then. They just didn't throw max effort four seamers on every pitch. They changed speeds, worked corners, and planned to go deep into ballgames... Including Ruth himself. The strike zone was much bigger. So were most parks. And the ball was not as lively. Lots of todays sluggers would find their 'home runs' turning into fly outs.
Interesting subject. Good video
Should be noted that Ruth's homers were equally split home and away.
I will I just enjoyHIS 62 HHOMERS THANK YO A J. Well done.
Babe Ruth did it in 154 games in 1927.
& he hit more home runs (60) in 1927, than the team HR totals, of all the other American teams.
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When Ruth finished with 714 home runs. 2nd place (was also one the game’s greatest) was Gehrig, with under 400 HRs.
If you don’t count Gehrig, Babe had over Twice! as many home runs, as the 3rd “best ever” hone run hitter (at that time)
I’d be interested to see the different types of baseballs and their effects on home runs included somehow in a home run comparison video. Keep everything from this video and add the balls to it.
The topic of juiced baseballs is an interesting one. I would love to visit the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica where people actually stitch the balls together. One has to wonder about that whole process.
How dare anyone compare Judge to Ruth.
In addition to hitting 60 home runs in 1927, Ruth batted .356 for the season. While Judge's 2022 season was impressive, he hit 40 points less than Ruth. While many of his records have been surpassed, no player can ever compare to Babe Ruth as a slugger. He hit for power AND average. He was a pretty good pitcher at the beginning of his career, too.
You missed 6 asterisks on that list.
I love the game! You can be a normal sized person and do well. You do not have to be tall as God or big as a bull to play. Size does matter but so does fielding and base running. Texas league hits still drop and you will find your self on first base trying to distract the pitcher. Watching his shoulder or the sole of his shoe and you are gone…another base stolen. What a game!
Totally agree with the comment, but it's rather strange that you make it in a video about Aaron Judge.
Of course Ruth. No Bonds! Even Hank Aaron whom had 41 more home runs, but he had 2500 more plate appearances. Someone here said: no helmet, no gloves, or padding. They had wollen uniforms , that weighed 30 pounds wet( sweat)! All day games, only train travel.
@Alien Footprints Yes, thank you.
McGwire, Sosa and Bonds Along with Alex Rodriguez should never be included on any homeruns list
Yankee stadium may have benefited left handed hitters, but Ruth still hit more homeruns on the road then at the stadium (367 - 347). Add to that, Ruth wasn't hitting 300 ft homeruns, so the ballpark dimensions don't really seem relevant to a player like him.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Yankee Stadium's dimensions are irrelevant. Dimaggio would have hit more homeruns at a Shibe Park or Crosley Field. Yankee Stadium had a much farther center-left field than those places.
@@thebaseballprofessor What I wrote was they really don't seem relevant to a player like him (meaning Ruth). Other players at Yankees stadium did benefit or get hurt by the dimensions. Maris was helped, and as you said Dimaggio was hurt. A player like Mel Ott was definitely helped playing at the Polo grounds as he hit about 63 percent at home.
Arizona and Tampa Bay came in to the league together not the marlins.
Thanks. I've pinned a correction at the top of the comments.
I love judge...wish we got him a little earlier to see what he could of done in a long 15 years career playing every day..and healthy for most of it....I would say Judge would hit 500 hr easy...but there is really no comparison with Babe to anyone...I mean bottom line is that Hank and Barry 1000s of more ab's...I mean he really didn't hit the 1st 5 years of his career if he had the amount of ab's that that they did....he probably would have hit 850-900 Homer's
@John McGee I see "could of" all the time in UA-cam comments and it drives me nuts, but I don't think it's the posters as much as it's voice recognition software that confuses "could've" with "could of". Of course, I could be wrong, I type.
@@big8dog887 You know what’s more annoying? Some poindexter know it all who thinks it’s their job to correct others on their social media grammar!
@@g311music
Shove your poindexter.
babe gave a lot to orphans and even to women ....alot of women
Ruth had more homers on the road than he did at home. Plus unlike Roger Maris, the Babe was not a pull hitter. Many of his home runs were to all fields, including the deeper parts of Yankee Stadium. Plus Ruth had hit many tape measure home runs. Read two books by Bill Jenkinson, "
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs: Recrowning Baseball's Greatest Slugger" and "Power". He does an enormous amount of research on the Babe and many of the great tape measure home run hitters in mlb history. So, regardless of the park the Babe played in, he would have hit a ton and based on his road stats he might have hit more. No doubt he lost some homers to long fly balls hit to the opposite field in old Yankee stadium.
No doubt with segregation in place back then that there would have been a much greater competition for sure as it was proved with the influx of the great Black players of the 1950's and 1960's many of whom were never given a chance to make it as there still remained a quota of black players allowed on a club. And of course some clubs like the Yanks, Phillies and Red Sox took a long time to even have a Black man as a starter, let alone on the team in any capacity. The Red Sox for example could have had Jackie Robinson and later Willie Mays!
To Maris' credit though he hit more homers on the road 31 and 30 at home. So, neither Maris nor Ruth relied as heavily on their home parks as you indicate. Maris only had 7 more plate appearances than the Babe. 698 to 691, which is negligible. As is the fact that Maris hit his 60th homer in slightly few plate appearances than the Babe. While there was indeed a dilution in overall talent, hitting and pitching in the expansion years of 1961 and 1962, if you look at who Maris hit his homers off of, it was in large part off off of pitchers who were already in the majors prior to 1961.
While there's no doubt that hard throwing pitchers who don't have to go more than 5 or so innings and get spelled by equally hard throwing relievers. There is one factor today that makes this a hitters game more than even conditioning and ped's and smaller parks and a tighter wound ball-- it's the fact that the inside part of the plate has been taken away from the pitchers. They can no longer fight for control of the plate like they did in Maris' and the Babe's time. To quote Red Schoendienst, ”He (Bob Gibson) couldn't pitch today because they wouldn't let him. The way he'd throw inside, he'd be kicked out of the game in the first inning, along with guys like Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax.". I'd also add Tom Seaver, Gaylord Perry and most pitchers of the previous generations of baseball. The fact that pitchers can't really back hitters off the plate and go in and out like they used to, makes a hitter's life much easier. I can't imagine the likes of Mays, Mantle and the great DiMaggio who came so close to actually hitting more career homers than he had career strikeouts!
I think you missed a key component: what does Roger Maris Jr. think?
He did get his 15 minutes of fame this past season for sure!
I don't think there is much of a comparison between these 2, I think shohei ohtanhi is the only comparable player to babe ruth...
IMO Judge is the new HR king.
I agree.
The Sosa, McGwire & Bonds totals were juiced numbers along with Sosas corked bat. Probably still a juiced ball too like they started using after the 1994 strike. Judge will get a monster contract even though he's hurt a lot.
Cool story
Congratulations Aaron Judge, the all-time, MLB single season (non-steroid/cheating) homerun champion! 62!!!
Errors are for dogshit
He doesn't compare lol