Reply to "Is baseball Different?"

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

@SpeedDemon posted:
Rinaldo is 6'2", Messi is 5'7"
The range of players on the USWNT is 6'1" Casey Murphy to 5'1" Rose Lavelle
Phil Esposito is 6'1", Gretzy is 6', Connor Bedard is 5'10"
Evans Chebet, winner of the 2022 and 2023 Boston Marathons is 5'7"
- 2023 runner up Gabriel Geay is 5'3"
- 2022 runner up Lawrence Cherono is >6' tall
Lots of tall baseball players yet Altuve and Kemp are having pretty good careers
If anything, it seems like the range of heights for pro athletes is expanding. Maybe analytics and training have advanced to give guys who'd have been previously overlooked a chance.

But more important, I am still trying to understand why your first reaction to my post was to say "you know very little about these sports". Why would you write that?

You can find exceptions in most sports. They’re anecdotal.

1/21/245:35 PM

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