Im not even a baseball fan, I dont even live in California, but Shohei has got me into watching his games and enjoying the sport of baseball. Hes doing so much for the sport, and bringing in an audience that without him wouldnt even be watching baseball.
Same for me bro, I never cared for baseball but now I’m following every Angels game and watching every RUclips video that has Ohtani’s name in it!!! Same with MJ, Montana and Rice!!! They drew me into Football, Basketball and Baseball!!! Got y respect the greatness and dominance of all these individuals!!!
Im from a region where basebal is an unknown sport, but Shohei Ohtani pull me in, such a privilege for me to witness a history of sportsmanship is being created.
Once I hit my twenties, I paid little attention to baseball... for decades, I shrugged at baseball as I focused elsewhere. Partway through 2021, I heard something I could neither believe nor ignore... "Wait wait wait.... a pitcher is leading the league in homeruns? WHAT?" Since then, I'm a born again baseball fan. I credit that renewed interest to Ohtani alone.... I don't think my story is unique....n
4:00: To Bob Costa’s point, I’m going to my first Angeles game ever, and I live in Orange County. I gotta go see the Angles and Ohtani live. It’s a spectacle
Yes, name him a hall famer, as he already deserves. Do not forget what effects he has brought out, not only in the baseball sports, but also the baseball fan base that is growing year by year, the economic impacts where he goes, LA or Japan, especially after WBC. He has to be recognized as such.
You know what else grows year by year? The Angels level of embarrassment. It might be the worst franchise in pro sports and one of the greatest athletes anyone has ever seen is stuck there. Baseball is dying, not growing. As someone living in New York I’ve yet to see Shoei Ohtani in a commercial. He can save baseball if he is playing in an actual baseball city that doesn’t start their games at 11pm.
@@axe2grind244 They aren't that bad this year tho bro. I agree that the upper management of LAA needs to be replaced. They have 2 best players in baseball, yet they fail to take advantage because they are unable to form a better team around them. However, if the season ended today, they'd make the Wild Card, so I don't think you can call the franchise an "embarrassment" at this point. At least, not like they have been in years prior.
@@DonJohnson-x3r Do not assume that I or all of his fans become "the prisoners" of the moment. I am not. By using this word, you should realize that your ate "insulting" others for your own reason. You do not have "respect and appreciation" as a human being. Learn how to appreciate and how to respect others.
If people follow the pitch and the swing and understand how much goes into each, they get a real understanding and enjoyment of how incredible these moments are. It's magic and to be cherished forever.
It is absolutely ridiculous that his salary is far below a lot of his MVP contenders. The Angels should hand him a 600,000,000.00 contract immediately! He is by far the biggest attraction for the Angels!
Shohei Ohtani is better then Babe Ruth and it's not even a debate. Have to realize Babe played against coal miners and plumbers, baseball was like a part time job for them to make extra money because they were'nt getting paid enough, and was'nt playing against the best players worldwide or even in this country. Now it's a full time job, athletes train just for baseball, players are bigger stronger faster, they train 362 days a year, and play against Worldwide Talent, even Casey Stengal said in 1962 the players are better then when he was playing against Ruth in his era, Shohie is even better as a pitcher, Babe never threw 100 mph or even 90 (his average pitch was high 75 mph ) If a time machine brought Babe to play today he'll be a good player (hit 20 HRs and maybe win 4 or 5 games most) but if Shohei goes to play in Babe's era no doupt he'll dominate (hit 70 to 80 HRs and Win 30 to 40 games) and even alot of Baseball historians said the same thing also, comparing todays game to a hundred years ago when the game was still early and not advanced to it is now.
What signifies Shohei Ohtani is that we are talking about history of the game and players of the pastime. I learned so much about the history of the game through Shohei.
How about a crazy idea. Given Ohtani’s historical uniqueness, perhaps his next contract can be a unique one that is co-signed by MLB. That is, MLB pays part of his contract given his contribution to the overall baseball revenue.
Too bad he has the personality of cardboard box and plays for the angels so the games are meaningless. But yeah other than that the stat padding games and hype is sort of cool
@@johngoldsworthy7135 if u need personality to watch sports …then u shouldn’t be watching sports …sports are all about stats …numbers don’t lie …go watch soap operas with your neighbors mother in law to get personality
Because players like Musial and Williams fell off after integration....their game stayed at the same level as before. This argument doesn't hold up and Shohei needs years playing at this level before he can be compared to the GOAT Mr. Bambino
Shohei is the single greatest baseball player of all time. No player, not Ruth, Williams, Young, Wagner, Wadell can hold a candle to this dude when you compare how athletic they were compared to this baseball god. Sure Ruth could pitch, but it was against 1/4th the players most of whom had to have a second job because people didn't make tons of money playing baseball and he never pitched and hit in the same game, none of those players trained nearly has long as today's athletes.
💯 babe played only against white players of a small small tiny portion of the world population. It was basically group of guys from the community center playing baseball.
@@CoolBeans21-lv5woyup that’s what most of these “ historians “ of the game never bring up. I’m surprised Costa never mentioned that when comparing the babe to anyone of this era
He only played whype peepoh from bumfuk Oklahoma so it doesn’t count. The comparisons to babe Ruth are so ridiculous, along with the obvious racism. It’s a literal 100 year difference as far as context of the game. May as well compare GMO foods to natural food. No natural food will look more appealing compared to GMO foods that have been fine tuning the gmo technology for decades
@@SexyUndisputed2All Lin was a great fun, time, but it only lasted for like 10 games. Then he got hurt and people figured him out that he couldn't go left. Shoehei has been doing this for years.
I'm seeing the likes your comment got, has anyone seen the RUclips video "Jeremy Lin bloody" video? Get suckerpunched like that every game and tell me who cam manage? Amazing how the media and public made sheep out of the public to believe he was a "flash in the pan" lols
Ohtani is having a historic year, but I'm reading the comments dismissing Babe Ruth and let's never forget that Babe Ruth hit more home runs in some seasons than WHOLE TEAMS.
Thank you, Bob. I've seen so many words used as modifiers of "unique" with the intention of intensifying the adjective. I just want to ask everyone who uses such: "You mean, more unique than one of a kind? So, like... half of a kind?"
He's just AWESOME! I watch him EVERY SINGLE DAY that's how BIG IMPACT he does to people. My MVP everyday! SHOHEI OHTANI the UNICORN. He's an INSPIRATION to young kids. I'm HAPPY I get to see him play everyday.
Babe Ruth also played during baseball infancy. His opponents were AA level players. Ruth swung a 40 ounce bat. Nobody in today's era of could manage that with the level of skill in today's game.
@@doubanjiang I dont think the race argument holds strong. However, that Ruths opposition was weak is true. Those guys would struggle in AA if they played baseball today. Walter Johnson probably the best pitcher of Ruths era his fastball avg 88-89mph and his max was like 92mph he was considered to be a power pitcher back than. They are guys who are teenagers who can throw harder than that these days. Before you mention Bob Feller like many Ruth fans do. They never played in the same season before. Feller started right after Ruth retired.
A year or two ago I would've laughed at this and said no way, he's great but he's got a ways to go. It's getting really hard to dismiss his greatness now.
I would give 1.2billion over 12 years. Shohei will the first billion Dollar Babe! 12 Years of Shohei is gonna be worth Billions to the club And make that Club as Famous as the Yankees. Babe Ruth did it for the Yankees. Shonei can do it for The Angels if they have the Vision.
please explain how two way player (who pitches 6 day rotation only not 5 day rotation and lock DH position) helps the club to win, when it is hard to maintain bullpen healthy with 6 day rotation and difficult to improve team batting average and develop youngsters without utilizing DH position. So far Nevin of angels is very frustrated with him.
But he wasn't that good at both at the same time. He was a great hitter but his ERA was league average, his WHIP was an awful 1.545 and he pitched nearly 60% fewer innings than he did as a full time pitcher.
He is leaps and bounds better than Babe Ruth ever was. Ohtani is playing with athletes, the Babe was playing with a bunch of part time baseball players.. Some plumbers... some roofers...
The Mets maybe, but I don't think he will go to the Yankees because a lot of Yankee fans hate him. They hate him because people give more love to Ohtani than their daddy Aaron Judge and that makes them mad.
There was only 8 teams back then. And only whites were allowed to play. They threw 85 mph fastballs back then. Babe ruth would be lucky to play at the 1:54 college level today.
The comparison is tough because pitchers pitched complete games back in Ruth's era and even until recently. He was too great a hitter to allow him to pitch. Ruth had a 2.28 lifetime ERA and would have been 2.10 if they didn't have Ruth pitch a game here and a game there in his last five years.
You're assuming he doesn't grow up training exactly like everyone born today trains. Of course he would still be good. You gotta be mentally ill to not think someone like Ruth or Ted Williams would DOMINATE today still. They would
@@173jaSon371Ruth was undisciplined athlete So no. He would be nowhere as good as Ohtani. Riding off talent alone would not get you to where Ohtani is today
Someone obviously doesn’t know baseball history. Shame. Babe had amazing discipline and talent when he was young, prior to video cameras. All you see in old videos are old fat Babe. I suppose if you ever saw Muhammad Ali at the end of his career….he sucked.
As Costas says, there is no comp for Ohtani and Ohtani is the very definition of unique in MLB. Forget the silly comparison with Ruth, it's completely ridiculous. Costas mentions Pedro Martinez as a pitcher who might be better than Ohtani as a pitcher. I've seen Martinez raving about Ohtani; he can't fathom what Ohtani is doing.
Yes, and if you notice, Japanese players seem to have a much better attitude, be more polite and have more self control than American players. Look at types of Darvish, Matsui, Ichiro and Ohatani, they don't/didn't break bats and curse around in their profession etc.
Rich, a missed opportunity. There is only one Sports Personality which could make this comparison, and due to Ohtani's greatness, there is only one person to whom he compares: Pootie Tang.
Truth is you cannot even compare Ohtani with any player before MLB allowed black and latin players to join the league. Before that MLB players were not competing with the best of rhe best. So anyone's record and stats before 1947 (or the year when MLB actually allowed all the best black, latin and other races) dont count. So Babe Ruth was not really tested at the level as Ohtani!
We’re just casually talking about a $600,000, or more!, possible contract like it’s chump change. Huh? And we’re still discussing his possible greatness? Well? Which is it? Is he good? Or what?
Part of me wonders why anyone still believes babe Ruth is better than anyone, especially considering he only played against white baseball players, which were no where near as good as jegro league players. I still don't get it.
Ruth was 6’2” and could hit the ball over 500 feet, he would have no problem playing today. Also did play against negro leaguers and japanese players in barnstorming tours and put up stats even better then his mlb numbers
Im not even a baseball fan, I dont even live in California, but Shohei has got me into watching his games and enjoying the sport of baseball. Hes doing so much for the sport, and bringing in an audience that without him wouldnt even be watching baseball.
Same for me bro, I never cared for baseball but now I’m following every Angels game and watching every RUclips video that has Ohtani’s name in it!!! Same with MJ, Montana and Rice!!! They drew me into Football, Basketball and Baseball!!! Got y respect the greatness and dominance of all these individuals!!!
Same
Im from a region where basebal is an unknown sport, but Shohei Ohtani pull me in, such a privilege for me to witness a history of sportsmanship is being created.
I live in Sydney and not even a baseball fan but I'm planning a trip just to see Shohei.
Worth thing to do! He’s a generational talent. Gonna see him in his prime
Shohei is a true unicorn. It’s insane what he does
Once I hit my twenties, I paid little attention to baseball... for decades, I shrugged at baseball as I focused elsewhere. Partway through 2021, I heard something I could neither believe nor ignore... "Wait wait wait.... a pitcher is leading the league in homeruns? WHAT?" Since then, I'm a born again baseball fan. I credit that renewed interest to Ohtani alone.... I don't think my story is unique....n
Same! Last game I went to was around 2000. Now I’m into baseball again .
How old are you now?
@@jshawney3355 53 👍
Same here
Shohei is so good and does everything in the right way.
Die hard yankee fan here.. shohei is my favorite baseball player ever
4:00: To Bob Costa’s point, I’m going to my first Angeles game ever, and I live in Orange County. I gotta go see the Angles and Ohtani live. It’s a spectacle
I went to the Tuesday game (June 27th) where Ohtani hit 2 home runs and struck out 10! simply incredible!
@@happios dude that must've been amazing
and what's ridiculous is that the Angels have been getting him for the past 6 years for less than $40M
Babe Ruth is the Goat. Sushitani ain't it.
He’s only played 4 years in the majors lol
The Angels got a steal with Mike Trout and now they robbed the baseball world with Ohtani it's ridiculous
@@jshawney3355Racist got no place anywhere. Especially in sports. Go back to your cave.
@@jshawney3355 his name is OHTANI.
not sutahsnai
He’s a video game character but in real life. It’s not possible what he is doing. MVP 💥
Yes, name him a hall famer, as he already deserves. Do not forget what effects he has brought out, not only in the baseball sports, but also the baseball fan base that is growing year by year, the economic impacts where he goes, LA or Japan, especially after WBC. He has to be recognized as such.
He needs to play at least 10 seasons to be considered. But I'm sure he'll be a lock by then.
You know what else grows year by year? The Angels level of embarrassment. It might be the worst franchise in pro sports and one of the greatest athletes anyone has ever seen is stuck there. Baseball is dying, not growing. As someone living in New York I’ve yet to see Shoei Ohtani in a commercial. He can save baseball if he is playing in an actual baseball city that doesn’t start their games at 11pm.
@@axe2grind244 They aren't that bad this year tho bro. I agree that the upper management of LAA needs to be replaced. They have 2 best players in baseball, yet they fail to take advantage because they are unable to form a better team around them. However, if the season ended today, they'd make the Wild Card, so I don't think you can call the franchise an "embarrassment" at this point. At least, not like they have been in years prior.
hes great but lets not be prisoners of the moment
@@DonJohnson-x3r Do not assume that I or all of his fans become "the prisoners" of the moment. I am not. By using this word, you should realize that your ate "insulting" others for your own reason. You do not have "respect and appreciation" as a human being. Learn how to appreciate and how to respect others.
If people follow the pitch and the swing and understand how much goes into each, they get a real understanding and enjoyment of how incredible these moments are. It's magic and to be cherished forever.
It is absolutely ridiculous that his salary is far below a lot of his MVP contenders.
The Angels should hand him a 600,000,000.00 contract immediately!
He is by far the biggest attraction for the Angels!
Shohei Ohtani is better then Babe Ruth and it's not even a debate. Have to realize Babe played against coal miners and plumbers, baseball was like a part time job for them to make extra money because they were'nt getting paid enough, and was'nt playing against the best players worldwide or even in this country. Now it's a full time job, athletes train just for baseball, players are bigger stronger faster, they train 362 days a year, and play against Worldwide Talent, even Casey Stengal said in 1962 the players are better then when he was playing against Ruth in his era, Shohie is even better as a pitcher, Babe never threw 100 mph or even 90 (his average pitch was high 75 mph ) If a time machine brought Babe to play today he'll be a good player (hit 20 HRs and maybe win 4 or 5 games most) but if Shohei goes to play in Babe's era no doupt he'll dominate (hit 70 to 80 HRs and Win 30 to 40 games) and even alot of Baseball historians said the same thing also, comparing todays game to a hundred years ago when the game was still early and not advanced to it is now.
Great assessment!
Lol what bunch of horse sh*t. Say you’re racist without saying you’re racist. Imagine saying what you did about the negro league players lmfao
What signifies Shohei Ohtani is that we are talking about history of the game and players of the pastime. I learned so much about the history of the game through Shohei.
He is 1/1. No comparison.
Zero championships, zero personality, not American. Not the GOAT
What he’s doing defies logic
Watching history is so much fun!!!!!
Ruth 1918 season: 13-7 with a 2.22 era also won his first homerun title and hit .300 and led the league in slugging and ops.
No DH either
How about a crazy idea. Given Ohtani’s historical uniqueness, perhaps his next contract can be a unique one that is co-signed by MLB. That is, MLB pays part of his contract given his contribution to the overall baseball revenue.
I like this
Then the league would be showing favoritism to whatever team got his services..
@@jordanwhite8567How? Ordering opposing pitchers to lob ball at him? Telling hitter not to swing at his pitches?
ohtani is well beyond babe Ruth …ohtani is the new standard of greatness for all future MLB prospects
Wind Shohei is better than Air Jordan
💯
Too bad he has the personality of cardboard box and plays for the angels so the games are meaningless. But yeah other than that the stat padding games and hype is sort of cool
@@johngoldsworthy7135 if u need personality to watch sports …then u shouldn’t be watching sports …sports are all about stats …numbers don’t lie …go watch soap operas with your neighbors mother in law to get personality
@@johngoldsworthy7135 Judge has the same personality as Shohei, both classy and professional
We are watching history. We might be watching a legend in his prime, its fun and so awesome for Baseball 🎉✨️✨️✨️
It’s obvious. But racists will continue to say Ruth is better because they can just use absurd comparisons to skew reality.
Ruth only play white players..not international players.. even half the players in negro league were better than the whitees pre 60
Yep
Because players like Musial and Williams fell off after integration....their game stayed at the same level as before. This argument doesn't hold up and Shohei needs years playing at this level before he can be compared to the GOAT Mr. Bambino
Projection is a helluva drug. Hate to break it to you bud, but the only reeecist here is you
Shohei is the single greatest baseball player of all time. No player, not Ruth, Williams, Young, Wagner, Wadell can hold a candle to this dude when you compare how athletic they were compared to this baseball god. Sure Ruth could pitch, but it was against 1/4th the players most of whom had to have a second job because people didn't make tons of money playing baseball and he never pitched and hit in the same game, none of those players trained nearly has long as today's athletes.
💯 babe played only against white players of a small small tiny portion of the world population. It was basically group of guys from the community center playing baseball.
@@CoolBeans21-lv5woyup that’s what most of these “ historians “ of the game never bring up. I’m surprised Costa never mentioned that when comparing the babe to anyone of this era
He only played whype peepoh from bumfuk Oklahoma so it doesn’t count. The comparisons to babe Ruth are so ridiculous, along with the obvious racism. It’s a literal 100 year difference as far as context of the game. May as well compare GMO foods to natural food. No natural food will look more appealing compared to GMO foods that have been fine tuning the gmo technology for decades
@@qxxx6624 Playing it Safe UNFORTUNATELY... For....
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ sake
@@johngoldsworthy7135 ???????????????????????????????????!!!
"Whype" ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
"Peepoh" ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm a lifelong Dodger fan but I try to catch as many Angel games as I can just because of him. He's definitely one of one.
He is already the greatest player to ever play. Top 20 pitcher in the league and the best hitter in the world.
Ha ha ha ha ah ah ah ah ha ha ha😂😅🤣
Wow! Costas just said it all!
No doubt he could be a an excellent position player too, very quick
Love how Ohtani is bringing in new baseball fans. He's like Jeremy Lin but with sustained success. Can't get enough of him.
Can't compare the two. Like everybody says "Shohei is a unicorn" I think Lin is more of a "trendsetter for asian Americans in basketball"
AND gets lots of hate just like Lin and Yao did. Lin still gets hate
@@SexyUndisputed2All I haven't seen Ohtani hate. Other than ignorant Stephen A, I never hear negative comments about Shohei.
@@SexyUndisputed2All Lin was a great fun, time, but it only lasted for like 10 games. Then he got hurt and people figured him out that he couldn't go left. Shoehei has been doing this for years.
I'm seeing the likes your comment got, has anyone seen the RUclips video "Jeremy Lin bloody" video? Get suckerpunched like that every game and tell me who cam manage? Amazing how the media and public made sheep out of the public to believe he was a "flash in the pan" lols
Ohtani is having a historic year, but I'm reading the comments dismissing Babe Ruth and let's never forget that Babe Ruth hit more home runs in some seasons than WHOLE TEAMS.
Thank you, Bob. I've seen so many words used as modifiers of "unique" with the intention of intensifying the adjective. I just want to ask everyone who uses such: "You mean, more unique than one of a kind? So, like... half of a kind?"
He's just AWESOME! I watch him EVERY SINGLE DAY that's how BIG IMPACT he does to people. My MVP everyday! SHOHEI OHTANI the UNICORN. He's an INSPIRATION to young kids. I'm HAPPY I get to see him play everyday.
The words na,o,e are popular in Japan now.This phrase describes Shohei Ohtani hitting a home run but the Angels losing badly.
SHOHEI OHTANI#17 HAVING 1 OF THE GREAT SEASONS IN MLB ⚾ HISTORY ..
Check Babe Ruth's pitching and batting stats in 1918 and 1919. Tremendous!
FINALLY. A REAL STATEMENT
I came back to baseball to watch Ohtani. Just him.
Babe Ruth also played during baseball infancy. His opponents were AA level players. Ruth swung a 40 ounce bat. Nobody in today's era of could manage that with the level of skill in today's game.
Ruth also never had to play against black players.
@@Lingboysc2utterly stupid comment. Ruth would’ve performed just as well against black players.
@@doubanjiang you don't know that for a fact. The point is it was not the highest level of competition it could be.
@@doubanjiang I dont think the race argument holds strong. However, that Ruths opposition was weak is true. Those guys would struggle in AA if they played baseball today. Walter Johnson probably the best pitcher of Ruths era his fastball avg 88-89mph and his max was like 92mph he was considered to be a power pitcher back than. They are guys who are teenagers who can throw harder than that these days.
Before you mention Bob Feller like many Ruth fans do. They never played in the same season before. Feller started right after Ruth retired.
@@Lingboysc2 Ruth raked against Negro League pitching during barnstorming games.
Honestly if Otani was white American imagine what MLB and Media reaction? That's the facts
Bob Costas...THE G.O..A.T😮
But I’ve seen him play RF
A year or two ago I would've laughed at this and said no way, he's great but he's got a ways to go. It's getting really hard to dismiss his greatness now.
Shohei is doing something Babe Ruth never came close to.
I would give 1.2billion over 12 years. Shohei will the first billion Dollar Babe! 12 Years of Shohei is gonna be worth Billions to the club And make that Club as Famous as the Yankees. Babe Ruth did it for the Yankees. Shonei can do it for The Angels if they have the Vision.
please explain how two way player (who pitches 6 day rotation only not 5 day rotation and lock DH position) helps the club to win, when it is hard to maintain bullpen healthy with 6 day rotation and difficult to improve team batting average and develop youngsters without utilizing DH position.
So far Nevin of angels is very frustrated with him.
Ohtani is so good, he can hit a ball 158ft and still be a homer.
Bob Costas's opinions on sports holds weight(Particularly NBA) but what he said right here is obviously unbiased true
As usual Costas is the sage
ShoTime did it again!!! 29!!!!
brah he at 30 now
Unless someone else can do what he does at this level...there are NO comparisons. And he can RUN like a stallion with wings.
Ruth did do it simultaneously in 1919.
And actually won world series after world series too
But he wasn't that good at both at the same time. He was a great hitter but his ERA was league average, his WHIP was an awful 1.545 and he pitched nearly 60% fewer innings than he did as a full time pitcher.
@@riffraff1350 Ya I'm not saying it was anywhere near Ohtanis level. But he did do it for one year and his ERA was pretty good.
@@billwoods7578 ERA was 2% above league average but he only had 133.1 IP. He did have to play the OF, though.
And 1918 too
He is leaps and bounds better than Babe Ruth ever was. Ohtani is playing with athletes, the Babe was playing with a bunch of part time baseball players.. Some plumbers... some roofers...
Plus theirs is probably not one team that doesn’t have a pitcher that can throw 100 mph.
I live in China, and I am planning my trips to see him pitch/bat.
I can only tell MLB, he is worth 600mm and more. Think about the market...
And naoya Inoue ruling the boxing world, fun time to be alive
Isn't the best player the most valuable?
He's both, the best player and the MVP
Overall, yes. Not every season, though
I want my first game to be a angel game just because of him.
Would love to see him in October one od these years.....
Shohei may end up having 50 HRs and 200Ks in the same season. That will never be broken by anyone else.
He might break it next year. He's only 28.
Hey Costas, thanks for not mentioning The Yankee Clipper, who was both a better fielder and Better hitter than The say hey kid.
Best ever. Hope he plays in New York 😂
No no no no no no New York, either team, no no no!
@@chriskelly6559wrong, New York or Boston all the way
for the Mets
@@chriskelly6559 😂😂😂
The Mets maybe, but I don't think he will go to the Yankees because a lot of Yankee fans hate him. They hate him because people give more love to Ohtani than their daddy Aaron Judge and that makes them mad.
Nah, Ohtani is better and surpasses Ruth.
Ruth won 7x world series and people still talk about him to this day
Because he’s an American icon derp
There was only 8 teams back then. And only whites were allowed to play. They threw 85 mph fastballs back then. Babe ruth would be lucky to play at the 1:54 college level today.
was there like only 4 teams?
Just hit another HR!
Babe Ruth only had to worry about fast ball and curve ball that only went 85 rarely…… playing vs avg people. Just saying.
“Unique” doesn’t properly carry the significance of what Ohtani is achieving now.
Tom Grossi is the Shohei Ohtani of RUclips. So Brandon Perna is like Jim Edmonds.
Keep in mind that Ruth played when the leagues were segregated so there's potential that he didn't even play against the best.
he didn't play against Bullet Rogan from the Negro League
He played against the best.
@@Grizzled556 he didn’t play against Bullet Rogan
@@Lingboysc2 He played against Cobb, Speaker, Johnson, Grove, Foxx, Cochrane, Alexander, and many more. That is enough.
When Ruth played in exhibition games against the Negro Leagues, he destroyed them too.
Ok, Yankees fans you guys can stop the debate about judges better than Ohtani. Go home and sleep😂
Also, today guys are much faster, stronger, etc. so Shohei is GOAT.. 90 era are mostly steroid addicts hitter
The comparison is tough because pitchers pitched complete games back in Ruth's era and even until recently. He was too great a hitter to allow him to pitch. Ruth had a 2.28 lifetime ERA and would have been 2.10 if they didn't have Ruth pitch a game here and a game there in his last five years.
Love my rookie cards of him $$$$$$$
30 hr!
Today pitching are lit more hard to hit and speed if baby Ruth play today he not like Ohtani or close to Shohei period
You're assuming he doesn't grow up training exactly like everyone born today trains. Of course he would still be good. You gotta be mentally ill to not think someone like Ruth or Ted Williams would DOMINATE today still. They would
@@173jaSon371Ruth was undisciplined athlete
So no. He would be nowhere as good as Ohtani.
Riding off talent alone would not get you to where Ohtani is today
Someone obviously doesn’t know baseball history. Shame. Babe had amazing discipline and talent when he was young, prior to video cameras. All you see in old videos are old fat Babe.
I suppose if you ever saw Muhammad Ali at the end of his career….he sucked.
Like I said, Ohtani is an INTERNATIONAL MLB ASSET😮 Fact 💯👀👍
No bob you bozo it doesn’t rival babe Ruth he has to win or at least go to a World Series
Beyond Babe ruth. Ruth played only in the caucasian minor leagues. If shohei lived then he wouldn't even be allowed to play.
Shorts have not covered. MOASS is real!
As Costas says, there is no comp for Ohtani and Ohtani is the very definition of unique in MLB. Forget the silly comparison with Ruth, it's completely ridiculous. Costas mentions Pedro Martinez as a pitcher who might be better than Ohtani as a pitcher. I've seen Martinez raving about Ohtani; he can't fathom what Ohtani is doing.
Yes, and if you notice, Japanese players seem to have a much better attitude, be more polite and have more self control than American players. Look at types of Darvish, Matsui, Ichiro and Ohatani, they don't/didn't break bats and curse around in their profession etc.
The MVP SHOULD be the best player
Whoa, whoa, whoa there Costas.
ボブは大谷が歴代最高の選手だと言ってくれてる 自称歴代最高のパパは、あまり大谷を称賛したくなさそうなんだが……
Rich, a missed opportunity. There is only one Sports Personality which could make this comparison, and due to Ohtani's greatness, there is only one person to whom he compares: Pootie Tang.
Ohtani is goatani.
well that settles it then. There should always be an MVP award and best player in the league award.
Babe Ruth is the father Ohtani is the son.
Ohtani should have been MVP last year. I want to see Judge strike out 10 hitters in a game. Or even throw one strike for that matter.
What Ohtani is doing is like Tom Brady being Dion Sanders at the same time…
Hum… Did I go too far??
No
i think bo jackson playing both sports =P
Never ever compare Shohei with Ruth or someone from the past. Don't even go there.
You mean because Shohei is better, right?
he needs to get off the Angels, saying this as an Angels fans.
Rivals? Dwarfs is more like it.
Truth is you cannot even compare Ohtani with any player before MLB allowed black and latin players to join the league. Before that MLB players were not competing with the best of rhe best. So anyone's record and stats before 1947 (or the year when MLB actually allowed all the best black, latin and other races) dont count. So Babe Ruth was not really tested at the level as Ohtani!
Bullshit
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I agree. But please don't jinx him..
hes too good. he cannot be jinxed
We’re just casually talking about a $600,000, or more!, possible contract like it’s chump change. Huh? And we’re still discussing his possible greatness? Well? Which is it? Is he good? Or what?
Sorry, I mean Millions.
No it doesn’t it far surpasses it lol
Barry Bonds was better after he took steroids.
Babe Ruth is no comparison to Shohei.
Other way around.
It is not rival, it is surpass Baby Ruth.
Wrong
Acuna23 > judge22
Ohtani can’t even be compared to babe Ruth he is miles above in greatness. Babe played against scrubs period
If they were scrubs then I hate to think what you are
42 hall of famers are scrubs?!
no，Shohei was the best player last year
Part of me wonders why anyone still believes babe Ruth is better than anyone, especially considering he only played against white baseball players, which were no where near as good as jegro league players. I still don't get it.
Ruth destroyed Negro League pitchers in barnstorming games.
Only white Americans thinks that 😂
Ruth was 6’2” and could hit the ball over 500 feet, he would have no problem playing today. Also did play against negro leaguers and japanese players in barnstorming tours and put up stats even better then his mlb numbers
White players, are the best players, fool!