What i mean is someone that is an incredible player that’s very popular and has won a ton of awards but hasn’t been able to win a championship.
What i mean is someone that is an incredible player that’s very popular and has won a ton of awards but hasn’t been able to win a championship.
The weird thing about the comparison is that Ohtani has 2 things he’s top 10 or so in (batting and pitching). If you correlate batting and pitching to having unique offensive skills (e.g. scoring + playmaking) then Harden, Nash, Steph, etc. are pretty close comparisons. The issue is that someone being a top 10 scorer and playmaker in basketball is significantly more common than someone being a top 10 pitcher and batter.
The same goes for if you correlate pitching and batting to offense and defense. In the last 30 years alone Kawhi, Kobe, Duncan, Hakeem, DRob, KG, CP3, Pippen, Jordan, Dwight, Bron, etc. all could qualify as being top 10 in offense and defense at some point.
I just don’t think the comparison works.
genuine question, what are some other things in baseball you can be top 10 at besides pitching and batting? probably something along the lines of baseball IQ but what else?
You can split pitching and hitting even further. Top 10 power pitcher vs finesse. Power hitter vs spray hitter.
You cant correlate baseball to anything
Its the nature of having super specialised sports. Being able to do more than 1 thing is an expectation in 90% of non-american sports
The only correlation that makes sense is offense and defense in a somewhat relation to baseball.